(Cheers on your four months of filmmaking journey– writing stories, working with actors, being actors, and learning how cinema is both sound and images.) Cinema is a collaborative medium. So, let's get to the crucial and emotional condition in which you have made your films. You have endured the deprivation of not interacting with your instructors and peers in a real classroom. The school and media lab has been very quiet without you.

Despite all limitations that the pandemic, social unrest, and lock-downs have imposed on you, you have demonstrated resilience and ingenuity and created unique cinematic worlds that reflect your rich imagination. Cheers on your commitment to being creative and the films you present in the 2021 Curriculum exhibition!

Jila Nikpay, Media Arts Instructor