Coral Santana
Why did you choose your program at UBC and what did you enjoy most about it? I chose Film Studies and Creative Writing because I love storytelling, and I love the power of the stories we chose to share. What I enjoyed the most about my program was having engaged discussions with my peers. What […]
James Martin
Why did you choose your program at UBC and what did you enjoy most about it? Throughout high school all I was interested in was science. I loaded up on as many math, physics and chemistry courses I could get because I had my eye on UBC’s engineering program since the 9th grade. I loved the […]
Meg O’Hara
Meg O’Hara is the founder and CEO of Meg O’Hara Creative and was recently named to the BC Business 30 Under 30 list. She works as a landscape painter in Whistler, BC and has been commissioned to produce paintings for ski resorts, heli-ski lodges and private collections throughout North America. In this interview, she talks […]
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers is an award-winning writer, director, producer, and actor. She is a member of the Kainai First Nation (Blackfoot Confederacy) as well as Sámi from Norway. But before she began her career in 2011, she couldn’t see a place for herself within the film industry. “You can’t really become what you don’t see,” she says. […]
Liesl Lafferty
Why did you choose your program at UBC and what did you enjoy most about it? After graduating from the University of Guelph in the 1990s, I moved to Vancouver and my first job was directing a play at UBC’s Brave New Play Rites Festival. I fell in love with the campus and the people. […]
Kat Jayme
Kathleen Jayme is an award winning filmmaker based in Vancouver, who is passionate about telling meaningful and personal stories. After graduating with her BFA in 2011, Kathleen worked at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) where she coordinated and oversaw over thirty documentaries, animations, and digital projects through all stages of production. While working […]
Nano Clow
Nano Clow is a writer and director based out of Vancouver, known for the short films The Lion (2014) and Guts (2018). Since graduating from UBC, he has also worked as a personal shopper, a project manager, and a costume designer. For Ash (2019), which will receive its world premiere at VIFF 2019, he worked […]
Janice Li
Why did you choose history and what did you most enjoy about it? I started my UBC life in Land & Food Systems, studying Nutritional Science, but really struggled in my chemistry and physics courses. I began taking History electives on topics I have always been curious about and surprisingly did quite well in them […]
Sanya Pleshakov
Why did you choose your program at UBC and what did you enjoy most about it? I chose UBC because the Indigenous History section of the History Department was very strong, and because I wanted to work in particular with Dr. Coll Thrush and Dr. Robert McDonald. I also wanted to study local history in […]
Siena Wood Hutton
Why did you choose your program at UBC and what did you enjoy most about it? I actually began my path at UBC in Electrical Engineering. After a year and a half, I realized that this was not the right avenue for me, and looked to switch into Arts. I had not yet decided what […]