As part of my Fall 2025 semester, I had the great fortune of taking Screen Directing I with Professor Andrew Lund – offering film students experiential learning opportunities through extensive collaboration between Film & Media Studies and Theater Departments!

This course saw the collaboration of students from both screen directing and screen acting. This partnership relied on class exercises that covered script analysis, blocking, and performance, in addition to course projects that further built upon the fundamentals of cinematic storytelling. Getting to work with Andrew Lund was a huge delight — as he calls for students to take risks and explore multiple possibilities when it comes to telling a story through visual art.

During this course, I got to continue my partnership with the exceptional Luis Mercado! Luis and I have worked together on various projects previously — and this class was no exception regarding just how talented Luis is!

Here is our first short film of the semester from October 16, 2025, titled “TARDE”.