Assia Boundaoui is an Algerian-American investigative journalist and filmmaker. She has reported internationally for PRI, BBC, AlJazeera, VICE and CNN among others. Her award-winning feature-length debut The Feeling of Being Watched, a documentary investigating a decade of FBI surveillance in Assia's community, had its world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, was nationally broadcast on PBS “POV” and was awarded the jury prize for Best Documentary at the Woodstock Film Festival. Assia was most recently a fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab where she incubated a community co-created, new-media installation: the Inverse Surveillance Project. Assia earned a Masters degree in journalism at New York University and is based in Chicago.

In this masterclass, trauma-informed filmmaking expert Dr. Kameelah Mu'Min Oseguera will share ways that filmmakers can contemplate how systems of oppression, power, and privilege impact who they are. Participants will bring into conscious awareness their biases, attitudes, core beliefs, and assumptions, to center curiosity and humility in their approach to the filmmaking process.

Dr. Mu'Min Oseguera is a leading expert in trauma informed considerations and practices in documentary filmmaking and has served as a consultant to documentary filmmakers, directors and writers on matters related to race, religion, participant care, ethics, consent and healing centered filmmaking. She is also an Executive Producer and Coordinator of Care and Wellness for the film SUBJECT.  Dr. Mu'Min Oseguera is a member of the Documentary Accountability Working Group (DAWG) and Color Congress, a national collective of majority people of color (POC) and POC-led organizations aimed at centering and strengthening nonfiction storytelling.