FITS Europe is a study abroad program of the Loyola Marymount University (LMU), Los Angeles, in cooperation with the Academy for International Education (AIB), Germany.
A New World Perspective
My study abroad trip in Germany not only defined who I was as a filmmaker, but it also helped frame a new world perspective for me. I discovered the power of documentary filmmaking and I immediately became enamored with it. Why try and recreate false experiences on a dark soundstage in LA when in reality stories surround our lives everywhere we go?
Exploring Kreuzberg
On MYBerlin Day, 5 of the film students, including myself, met in the lobby of our hotel at 7:30am to begin or exploration of the Kreuzberg neighborhood of Berlin. Besides the theme of our tour telling us that we would be learning about Multicultural Berlin, none of us in the group knew anything about Kreuzberg...
Reunification Day
On the 3rd of October Germany celebrates Re-unification Day, the day the wall officially came down and East and West were one again. It’s a national holiday and every year the Germans hold a special celebration in one city. Luckily for us it was Bonn this year and that mean at least 300,000 extra people that we weren’t used to...
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