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 2025/2026 year!

★ Arjen Karaoglan ★

President

she/her

Cinema Studies Specialist & Sociology Major

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

• Fremont (2023) dir. Babak Jalali

★ Samantha Delicata ★

Vice President Internal

she/her

Cinema Studies and Work and Organizations

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

• The Lion King 2

★ Ava Derro ★

Vice President External

she/her

Cinema Studies Specialist

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

• I love Casablanca, a forever classic!

★ Shuhruh Akhand ★

Secretary

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Cinema Studies and Sociology

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

• One film I want to recommend to fellow Cinema Studies students is La Haine (1995)

★ 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

★ Jo Nguyen ★

Promotional Director-in-Chief

she/her

Cinema Studies Major & Computer Science Major

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

• If you can handle body horror, Raw (2016)!

★Ella ★

Promotional Director

she/her

Political Science and Cinema Studies

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

• Little Fish

★ Yasmine Alm ★

Art Director-in-Chief

Double Major in Cinema Studies and Sociology

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

• An underrated cinephilia/movie business film I enjoyed this summer was Visconti's Bellissima (1951). A lot to learn about film from meta-film!!

★Neehla Andrea-Luz Pal ★

Art Director

Major in Cinema Studies, double minor in Visual Studies and French Language

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

• Losing Ground

★ King Tung Lam ★

Art Director

she/her

Public Policy Major, Cinema Studies Major, Spanish Minor

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

• Past Lives

★ Astrid Yap ★

Camera Stylo Co-Editor-in-Chief

she/her

Cinema Studies + Book and Media Studies

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

• Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024)

★ Alex Docherty ★

Camera Stylo Co-Editor-in-Chief

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Cinema Studies and Architecture

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

• John Waters’ Cecil B. Demented

★ Cat ★

Special Events Coordinator

they/them

Cinema Major, DTS Major, and Biology Minor

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

• Megalopolis (the only movie I’ve cried laughing to in a long time)

★ Michela Fricano ★

Special Events Coordinator

she/her

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!

★ Lok ★

Special Events Coordinator

she/her

East Asian Studies, Cinema Studies, and Material Culture & Semiotics

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

• Resilience by Yunie Choi / On The Way Home by Mizuki Kiyama (they’re both really short films but I like them :>)

★Burak Batu Tunchel ★

Programmer-in-Chief

Cinema Studies Specialist & Creativity & Society Minor

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

• Cemetery Man

★ Delia Lappala ★

Programmer

she/her

English and Cinema Studies Double Major

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

• Roman Holiday

★ Yorm ★

Programmer

Cinema Specialist, Creativity and Society Minor

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

• Ishtar

★ Vince Woodford ★

Newsletter Editor

he/him

Cinema Studies and Political Science

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

• After Hours (1985) dir. Martin Scorese

★ Bridget Helbig ★

Trailer Editor

she/her

Cinema Studies

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

• The Servant (1963)

★ Joy ★

Filmmaking Coordinator

History and Cinema Studies double major, English minor

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

• Rouge (1987) dir. Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang

★ Ingrid Zoe ★

Filmmaking Coordinator

Double Major in Cinema Studies and Diaspora, Transnational Studies

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

• A movie I’d recommend - a recent favorite of mine - Materialists by Celine Song

★ Mark N Metri ★

Podcast Co-host

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Molecular Genetics Specialist

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

• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

★ Soren Stancliff ★

Podcast Co-host

Cinema Studies Specialist

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

• Venezia 70 Future Reloaded - Paul Schrader segment

★ Ali ★

Podcast Editor

he/him

Cinema Studies Specialist

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

• Close-Up (1990)

★ Ario Shakarami ★

Partnerships Director

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Cinema Studies

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

• Memento (2000)

★ Quinn Morton ★

First Year Representative

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Double Major in Sociology and Cinema Studies

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

• Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)