Elisha Miranda

As an acclaimed filmmaker,  writer, and educator, Elisha Miranda has powered through mainstream media barriers and stereotypes to explore answers to these questions, and to inspire the newest generation of artists to become no less than architects of authenticity through fearless imagination.

Miranda is a graduate of UC Berkeley, Columbia University, and MIT, a recipient of dozens of awards and a celebrated educator. But her crowning achievement? Choosing every day to teach and create from a place of audacious authenticity and social activism.   

 

 

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EDUCATOR

Elisha is currently am Assoicate Professor of Screenwriting/Directing for Film and TV in the Dodge College of Film and Media at Chapman University where she teaches writing for television and film. The Dodge College of Film and Media Arts ranks #4 among film schools nationally in the USA. Formerly, she was an Associate Professor of Film and Chair of the Film and Theatre Department at San Jose State University (SJSU) in California. While at SJSU she supervised the staff of Spartan Film Studios, the General Manager of KSJS Radio and serves as Artistic Director for all SJSU Theatre Productions, many which are produced at the Hammer Theatre (formally the San Jose Repertory Theatre). Prior to her tenure at SJSU she was an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of Film at Eastern Washington University (EWU) where she taught screenwriting, directing, script analysis, and film criticism.  She was also the General Manager of KEWU Radio.  Prior to coming to EWU, Elisha Miranda was the founding director of the Digital Film Department at the MCVTS School of the Arts in Central New Jersey a project of Rutgers University. She was also a fellow for the National Book Foundation and has served as an adjunct professor at SUNY Purchase, NYU, Bard College and the City College of New York.

She founded two youth programs in San Francisco and co-founded Chica Luna Productions in New York City, which inspired young women of color to cultivate their own voices using popular media, earning her a Union Square Award Artist Award and Lo Mejor de Nuestra Comunidad Award. While at Chica Luna, Miranda produced over 40 films that screened at Sundance, HBO, ITVS and SHOWTIME.

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Resources

Resources

Digital Media Studio:  Connecting Culture, Identity and the Classroom
Edited by Elisha Miranda, Chica Sol Films, Lulu.Com, 2014 

The Women of Color Media Justice Toolkit
Edited by Elisha Miranda and Sofia Quintero, The Sister Outsider Group, Lulu.Com, 2014.  

Pandora’s: A Toolkit for using Multimedia to Discuss LGBTQ Identity
Edited by Elisha Miranda and Sofia Quintero, The Sister Outsider Group, Lulu.com, 2013 - A 21st Century Digital Media & Film Curriculum for Teachers

Conscious Women Rock the Page
Edited by Elisha Miranda, et, al, The Sister Outsider Group, Lulu.Com , 2007
A feminist hip-hop curriculum to use with the The Sista Hood series for high school and college students.

Links for Competitions, Grants, Residencies, etc...

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Guest Lecture, Keynote, and Workshops Topics

  • Cinematic style and craft from the pitch to the screenplay, pre-production to directing and post-production to distribution.

  • Discussing Identity (race, gender, class and sexuality) utilizing the arts.

  • Arts education (creative writing, screenwriting, filmmaking, social media).

  • The practice of art and intergroup dialogue in the secondary and post-secondary classroom.

  • Media literacy and justice.

  • Effectively bringing multimedia (film, social media, transmedia, theater, writing workshops, etc) into the 21st century classroom or youth program.

  • Hip-hop feminism and pop culture remixing.

  • Becoming an auteur: Writing, directing, producing and distributing your own short films and social media webseries/content.

  • Successfully building organizations and programs using the arts.

Public Lectures and Speaking Engagements

Arizona State University

Bard College

Bronx Community College

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Columbia College

Columbia University

Dallas Public Library

El Museo del Barrio

Hampshire College

Harvard University

Hunter College

Museum of Moving Image

Museum of Modern Art, New York

National Association of Latino Independent Producers

NYU’S Conference on Preemptive Education

Queens College

Rochester Institute of Technology

San Diego State University

San Francisco State University

San Francisco Youth Guidance Center

Sarah Lawrence College

Stephen’s College

SUNY Purchase College

The Coalition of Essential Schools

The National Association of Multicultural Education Conference

The New School for Social Research

The Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe

University of California at Berkeley

University of California at Los Angeles

UT Austin

Washington State University

Women Action and Media Conference, MIT

Wooster College

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

 

Contact Miranda to ask about workshops, speaking, and curriculum.