Suree Towfighnia

Suree Towfighnia has over two decades of professional teaching experience in film and media. She has written and taught dozens of distinct courses, master classes and workshops for universities and organizations that are developed for a specific demographic or community need (including degree programs, indigenous or youth organizations, community groups and grassroots orgs).   She has extensive experience creating rigorous and engaging online courses (both synchronous and asynchronous).

 

Suree has taught the following courses:

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• MEDIAWORKS: ​​

  • SIGNIFYING POWER & DIFFERENCE​

  • ANIMATION, NONFICTION & EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES

• NONFICTION

  • ​CINEMATOGRAPHY​ & FIELD SKILLS

  • PRODUCING

  • STORYTELLING & DIRECTING

  • WRITING & DEVELOPMENT

  • ETHICS 

  • THEORY

  • PRODUCTION

 

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• FICTION DEVELOPMENT & WRITING

• FILM HISTORY AND THEORY

• EDITING APPROACHES

• DIGITAL MEDIA PRODUCTION

• 16MM BOLEX 

• INDIGENOUS STORYTELLING

• REPRESENTATION

• LIGHTING (STUDIO AND FIELD)

• YOUTH VOICES 

• MEDIA LITERACY

• VISUAL COMMUNICATION &

       STRATEGY

• IMMERSION WORKSHOPS

• ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY

       BUILDING & TRAINING

• ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMMAKING

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