Profiles
Ayesha Abouelazm, MFA
Title/s: Film and Digital Media Program Director/Instructor
Specialty Area: Video Production, Film History
Office #: School of Communication 204
Phone: 312-915-6859
Email: aabouelazm@luc.edu
CV Link: /media/lucedu/soc/pdfs/facultycvs/Abouelazm CV.pdf
About
Ayesha Abouelazm is a filmmaker, instructor, and poet. She has written and directed many short films. This includes One (2015), Love Is A Gray Area (2016), Utterance (2016), The Girl in the Blue Bra (2016) and Not On My Shoulders (2017). She tends to gravitate towards films that deal with controversial issues and that shed light on subjects that are not talked about. Ayesha is a 2017 graduate student at Columbia College Chicago, one of the largest film schools in the entire country. The Girl in the Blue Bra is one of her more personal works and has been shown in over 20 film festivals so far, where it won “Joint Best North American Short” at the Asia South East Film Festival and best long-short film at the Kinodrome Film Festival. This film is based on the 2011 Egyptian revolution and she is underway on a feature of the same name.
Degrees
MFA in Cinema Directing
B.A. in Fim
Program Areas
Production and History
Research Interests
Arab representations in media, Women representations in media, Orientalism in film
Professional & Community Affiliations
United Film and Video Association (UFVA)
AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC)
Courses Taught
Introduction to Video Production
Chicago Film History
World Cinema 1
World Cinema 2
Transmedia
The History of Television