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  Article copy edited by Marian Lewis. Martina Lee has been an artist for as long as she can remember. It started when she was growing up and taking many art classes, particularly interested in painting and drawing. Despite not being a film major, Lee first truly got into the art form as an undergraduate in college. She found films that influenced and deeply touched her and learned to read this particular form of visual language in the same way she did fine art. After a few years, she returned to school, but this time to learn the craft of filmmaking. She started in Singapore (through NYU Tisch Asia), but once the program was discontinued, she found herself having to re-apply all over again. She got into the prestigious USC film program for her graduate degree. Her most recent short, “Black Boy Joy”, comes two years after graduating from USC and becoming a full-time part of the film industry. This film, produced by Film Independent Project Involve in 2019, follows three generat...

  Annalise and Zoe each bring a unique perspective to their time at USC’s film school. During the Miniflix interview with Zoe Malhotra , she revealed that she grew up in Washington D.C., where she started making documentaries out of a love for the artistic communities that existed there (including places like the Smithsonian). While at USC, Zoe studied multimedia literacy in the film school’s Media Arts and Practice program, ultimately focusing on documentary filmmaking. Annalise started in nature and wildlife photography but quickly became interested in using video to capture the world around her. Originally intending to pursue science, Annalise applied to USC’s School of Cinematic Arts anyway – and got in! Even though she’s all in on filmmaking, she didn’t leave her range of interests behind her (she double majored in anthropology). Together, these two made up the only undergraduate co-directing duo to helm one of the three projects selected by their Advanced Documentary Pro...