Seheri Swint
Year: 2018-2019
Nominating Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Field of Interest: Film, TV and Multimedia
Placement Organization: Living Films, Thailand
Placement Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand
About Seheri
(updated 2/2019) A proud Detroit native, Seheri turned to storytelling at a young age to reimagine the world around her. Joining a youth theatre company at age 12, her first performance was aptly entitled, “The Story of Me.” That same year, Seheri wrote her first screenplay and has continued to write and tell her story in various formats ever since. At Pepperdine University, Seheri made the leap from screenwriting to film production with the completion of her debut short film. During her senior year, Seheri participated in The Multicultural Theatre Project, reciting an original monologue about the socioeconomic issues affecting her family in Detroit. This pivotal experience was the first time Seheri employed oral storytelling in a personal, reflective manner. Seheri’s inner-city upbringing gifted her with an acute awareness of the unique challenges facing urban youth. During her graduate studies in Urban Education, Seheri conducted research at a Baltimore high school investigating whether the stimuli students encounter along their commute to school impacts their well-being. This research culminated in Seheri’s commencement address before the Johns Hopkins University School of Education during which she shared a poem about her adolescent experience commuting the streets of Detroit. In 2017, Seheri began a master’s program in Film and Media. She founded 5 Minute Shorts, a graduate student organization dedicated to fostering collaboration and producing impact driven media. Striving to harness the cooperative nature of filmmaking as a powerful medium to engage local youth, Seheri partnered with an after school program to teach documentary filmmaking to 5 th grade students in Baltimore City. As a Luce Scholar working at Living Films in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Seheri has assisted the production of a million-dollar commercial and regularly evaluates the writing of screenplays for film and television. Her current project is assisting the production of Netflix’s first original series in Thailand, a supernatural thriller titled “Shimmers.” She looks forward to gaining further valuable producing experience on upcoming feature films. In her spare time, Seheri enjoys journaling, performing original poetry, and riding her beloved bike.Seheri's Scholar Story
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