Bonus: Experiential Learning Scholarship Final Essay
Hi Experiential Learning Committee, my name is Kristin Storck and I attended the Cannes Film Festival Maymester Program! I would just like to say how grateful I am from the bottom of my heart for your help in making this life altering experience possible. It's taken me a while to write this, because I didn't know how exactly to put into words how these truly were some of the best four weeks of my life. From discovering one of my now absolute favorite films, Bull, and then immediately meeting the director, Annie Silverstein, right afterwards, to the eye opening and inspiring experience of meeting and seeing the short films of eight up-and-coming LGBT filmmakers at the LGBT Emerging Filmmakers Showcase, to being one of the last three people let into the premiere of Robert Egger's The Lighthouse, a film I have anticipated seeing for months, this festival was full of powerful and life changing moments. However, the greatest challenge I faced during this program was definitel...