CDM's Collaboration with Dillard University

Students from the Cinema and Digital Media Department have been chosen to participate in a project sponsored by Breaking Bread Media and the U.S. Department of State.

Within the project, participants produce short films and interactive media arts content inspired by common experiences and ideas. Young filmmakers selected from different parts of the world come together to work with film and media artists from the Gulf regions of the United States.

In the Fall semester of 2021-2022; within the CDM 301 studio class supervised by Serkan and Şavk Deborah Hardt, students from CDM worked with students from Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana to make films about the history and relationship of coffee in their hometowns. Cinema and Digital Media students produced films focusing on the Turkish coffee and coffee tradition in Izmir, while Dillard University students worked on films about chicory flavored coffee. At the end of the year, selected works will be screened in Washington DC.