Media
SSHRC Storytellers
The annual Storytellers contest challenges postsecondary students from across the country to demonstrate—in three minutes or 300 words—how SSHRC-funded research is making a difference in the lives of Canadians. The top entries this year addressed a range of important issues and highlight how knowledge about the social sciences and humanities helps Canadians understand and improve the world around us.
Biography
A Yugoslavian-Bosnian-Croatian-Canadian artist, Svjetlana Oppen is an active cinematographer and director seeking to understand herself and the world around her through film. She is completing her graduate studies in film and media arts at the University of Windsor. Her research explores the fragmented national identities in immigrant lives. In 2012, she created Stagehouse Multimedia, a not-for-profit focused on creating films to benefit disadvantaged, underrepresented and at-risk groups. Oppen currently serves as the technical director of the Windsor International Film Festival, overseeing film projection and the festival’s entire technical team.