PGDI is seeking highly motivated, creative, and collaborative students to serve as fellows for immersive summer work in Kenya.
Penn graduate and undergraduate students may apply to be Fellows of the institute. Fellows will draw on their own interests and experience to engage in research and media production. They will have opportunities to be credited as key collaborators on documentary and virtual reality films. Fellows may also have opportunities to continue their engagement with PGDI during the academic year. In the past, Fellows have built on their experience, developing their own short films, conference presentations, and research papers and applying for Fulbright and other grants to continue work started with PGDI.
Summer 2023 Fellows will collaborate on film, virtual reality, and related projects that will be made on location at the Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Refugee Settlement in Kenya. We will collaborate with FilmAid Kenya students and staff who live and work on-site. Fellows will attend a pre-departure boot camp at Penn, travel to Kenya for three weeks, and remain involved remotely on post-production work. Fellows will be responsible for specific roles in the productions, and they will receive credit on the final products.