The Team ✮

Every year, CINSSU is run entirely by dedicated undergraduate students who volunteer their time to the organization. They have a wide range of interests and expertise, finding common ground in the love of cinema. Meet our team for the 2026/2027 year!

★ Arjen Karaoglan ★

President

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Cinema Studies Specialist

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• Toni Erdmann (2016)

★ Shakira ★

Vice President Internal

she/her

★ Ava Derro ★

Vice President External

she/her

Cinema Studies Specialist

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• Casino (Martin Scorsese, 1995)

★ Ava Grace Palma ★

Secretary

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Cinema Studies Specialist with a Political Science Minor!!

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• When Harry Met Sally - BEST romcom ever made!

★ Karina Pandurangadu ★

Treasurer

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Cinema and Economics

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• The Blue Kite

★ Vince Woodford ★

Newsletter Editor & Equity Director

he/him

Cinema Specialist, Polisci Minor

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• La Chimera (2024)

★Lauren Sy★

Programmer

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History Major, Cinema Studies & German Studies Double Minor

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• Peking Opera Blues (1986)

★ Yorm ★

Programmer

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★ Feyintola Johnson ★

Filmmaking Coordinator

Cinema Studies and English

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• A Place Beyond the Pines

★Dee Williams★

Filmmaking Coordinator

Cinema Specialist and Creative Writing Minor

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• Old Boy (2003)

★ Anjalika Bansal ★

Partnerships Coordinator

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Criminology and Sociolegal Studies Major, Cinema Studies Minor, Political Science Minor

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• Bottoms (2023)

★ Naomi Rosenstein ★

Special Events Coordinator

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English Major, Book and Media Studies Minor, Creativity and Society Minor

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• Lisa Frankenstein

★ Kate Norman ★

Special Events Coordinator

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Cinema Studies Major, English Major

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• Thoroughbreds (2017)

★ Kiersten Herborth★

Special Events Coordinator

they/she

Cinema Studies Specialist

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• Trainspotting

★ Michela Fricano ★

Special Events Coordinator

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Cinema Studies & English

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, 2022). This film is intimate, raw, and gut-wrenchingly beautiful. It's such an amazing feature film debut!

★‍ ‍Ella Naumoff★

Promotions Director-in-Chief

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Poltical Science Specialist & Cinema Studies Minor

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• Us and Them (2018)

★Delia Lappala ★

Promotions Director

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Cinema and English Double Major

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• Om shanti Om

★ Valeria Colmenares Carrasquero ★

Promotions Director

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Double major in Political Science and Cinema Studies

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore

★ Hayden Powell★

Promotions Director

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Political Science Major, Minors in Cinema Studies & Philosophy

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• My Own Private Idaho

★ Kallie Yan ★

Camera Stylo Co-Editor-in-Chief

Cinema Studies Major, double minor in Visual and Indigenous Studies

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) dir. Tsai Ming-Liang

★ Tiana Severiano ★

Caméra-Stylo co-editor-in-chief

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Cinema Studies Specialist, Sexual Diversity Studies Minor

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• Oddball Canadian classic Crime Wave (1985) dir. John Paizs!

★‍Yasmine Alm ‍★

Art Director-in-Chief

Sociology & Cinema Studies Double Major

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• I have a recommendation of movie Watching rather than a specific movie... My most rewarding movie experiences have been about picking a specific topic (or "research question") and watching all I can about the topic. For example, I made it my mission to watch every recorded iteration of the Noel Coward play "Design for Living". Ended up in England watching a version you have to book an appointment at an archive to watch. It's fun to have the credential of being one of the few to have seen every version of this random play.

★ King Tung Lam ★

Art Director

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Cinema Studies Major, Public Policy Major & Spanish Minor

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• Sentimental Value (2025)

★ Lily Belle Landry★

Art Director

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Psychology and Media major

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• Lars and the Real Girl

★ Sophie Zhang ★

Art Director

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★ Bridget Helbig★

Trailer Editor-in-Chief

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Cinema studies specialist

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• Tommy (1975)

★ Annabelle Zhang ★

Trailer Editor

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Management (Focus in Marketing), Cinema Studies Minor

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• Sirāt (2025)

★ Giuliana Di Sanzo ★

Zine Editor

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Major in English with a double minor in History and Cinema

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• Ginger Snaps

★Isobella Douglas ★

Zine Editor

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Major in animal physiology, double minor ln chemistry and film

What's one movie you want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students?

• The Royal Tenenbaums