Publications

“The projects I develop come out of wanting to understand something for myself,” says Caroline Suh ’89, a New York-based director and producer of documentary films and TV series.

“I’m not a journalist. I’m aware that everything I do is slanted by my own experience, and my point of view is limited.” Seeking to understand different perspectives has been the driving force behind her work.

“I learned how to be an American teenager through movies and TV,” says L.A.-based writer Ami Boghani ’99.

“But I don’t yearn for the time when 50 million people tuned in to watch the same thing, because in that world there was no room for my voice.”

Growing up in the 1990s in Acton, Mass., a child of Indian immigrants, Boghani idolized shows such as Friends and Saved by the Bell. With her father—“a big film nerd,” she says—she watched ’80s science fiction, art-house fare, and a slew of Stanley Kubrick and Satyajit Ray films.

Producer Eugene Sun Park ’96 has some unusual advice for aspiring filmmakers: “Don’t study film.”

Park followed a circuitous path to founding his nonprofit production company, Full Spectrum Features, which promotes equity in the independent film industry by supporting the work of diverse filmmakers. Its award-winning films champion the perspectives of women, people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ communities. “We need stories that celebrate the complexity of intersectionality,” Park says.