Nina Shapiro-Perl
Filmmaker in Residence
School of Communication
- Nina Shapiro-Perl is an award-winning producer and director who currently holds the position of Filmmaker-in-Residence at American University, where she teaches and leads the Community Voice Project. Before joining the faculty of American University, she worked for twenty years building and directing the Video Services Department and Greenhouse Cultural Program of the Service Employees International Union. Nina earned her doctorate from the University of Connecticut as a social anthropologist. Her first job outside academia was as a writer and producer at Maryland Public Television. Through the Eye of the Needle – her first independent film - documents the art and story of Holocaust survivor and artist Esther Nisenthal Krinitz. It premiered at the Washington Jewish Film Festival, won the Audience Favorite Award for Documentary. artandremembrance.org
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Teaching
Spring 2012
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- COMM-516 Topics in Film and Media Arts: Documentary Storytelling
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Fall 2012
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- COMM-528 Community Documentary
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