Dr聽Estrella聽Sendra Fernandez
Teaching Fellow in Global Media Industries
- Related links
Estrella Sendra is a scholar, teacher, filmmaker, journalist and festival organiser, currently working as Teaching Fellow in Global Media Industries, at Winchester School of Art, 黑料社 and as Senior Teaching Fellow in Film and Screen Studies at SOAS, University of London.
She is recognised as Fellow by the Higher Education Academy. Her research interests include festival studies, film festivals, global screen media, African cinema, audiovisual representations of migration, transnational communities, youth and digital media, and gender. She is Associate Editor of and Editorial Board Member in the聽Journal of .聽Since 2011, when she directed T茅moignages de l鈥檃utre c么t茅 / Testimonials from the other side (2011), an awarded documentary film about migration, she has been developing a regional expertise in Senegal.
In 2018, she completed her PhD on cultural festivals in Senegal, fully funded by the Department of African Languages and Cultures at SOAS. She engages with creative and innovative teaching methods, such as assessment through video essays, and is the co-author of the 鈥 鈥櫬爌ublished in Learning on Screen (2020). In 2020, she was awarded the SOAS Director鈥檚 Teaching Prize for Inspirational Teaching. She was the director of the Cambridge African Film Festival in 2014, and 2015, as well as part of the curatorial team until 2019. In 2020, she was the curator of the African Film Festival of Barcelona-FICAB. As part of her public engagement, she has been involved in further festivals in Spain, Senegal, South Africa and the United Kingdom, as a jury member, organiser, media officer, curator or panelist. She is one of the editors and journalists of , an online magazine devoted to African arts and cultures, and contributes with further media platforms internationally, such as in Spain and in Senegal.