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This past year, Nguyen was a production assistant for “ Good Company,” a 2023 student-produced film. “Having those people to bounce ideas off of, and having that space where people want to spend time creating with you … it’s really powerful.” “I've spent time with people who are dedicated to film and who genuinely want to create,” she said. At the Bellisario College, she said, she found the classmates, collaborators and friends who also enjoy the “creativity and intensity” of filmmaking. Nguyen said film majors are a special breed of student, and she relishes the opportunity to be on set, in the studio or in the writer’s room with them making the magic happen. “Time and time again, I have had professors get to know me and care about me as a person rather than just a student.” Small school feel,’ may seem cheesy, but it’s true,” she said. Bellisario College of Communications felt like home. But, despite the change of scenery, she said that the Donald P.

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Penn State had the energy and environment Nguyen was looking for in a college experience, she said - she thought a big school and bigger town would provide the like-minded people and professional opportunities she was seeking. She is also a Schreyer Honors Scholar and Paterno Fellow. A first-generation college student, Nguyen is now a senior double majoring in film production and sociology. She took her newfound passion to Penn State. Ever since then, I fell in love with it.” I put it all into Premiere and that’s where it started. “I had eight different angles of different footage. “It was my first time working with (Adobe) Premiere,” Nguyen said. What followed was a montage of around 40 masked students social distancing, holding camcorders and smart phones and working hard to make their school play a reality. Nguyen contacted her high school music teacher to see if they could organize a virtual performance. “I was really involved in musical theater,” she said.

Nguyen, a senior at the time, and her friends were not ready to give up. The opening weekend of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at Bloomsburg High School was also the last due to the pandemic, the production was cancelled. Four years later, the Penn State student is spending her summer in Los Angeles interning with one of the premiere production companies in the United States. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.- A need to adapt her high school play because of COVID-19 restrictions introduced Jamie Nguyen to filmmaking. Bellisario College of Communications completing summer internships.

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