Migration French connection

July 9, 2021
By Louisa Shepard | Penn Today

Former Perry World House Student Fellow and Academy Award winner Claire Sliney is profiled in Penn Today.

Winning an Academy Award could be considered the pinnacle of a career, but for Claire Sliney, the first University of Pennsylvania undergraduate to receive an Oscar, it was just the beginning. 

Sliney also is the first Penn student to receive the Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship, and now she is preparing to move to Paris to pursue her project. She plans to make a documentary film featuring stories of French-Maghrebi women immigrants juxtaposed against the way they are portrayed in French cinema.

Sliney, who is from Los Angeles, graduated in May from the College of Arts and Sciences with her bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics, and economics and in gender, sexuality, and women’s studies.

“I saw the Fulbright as a really meaningful way to be able to not only do research on this subject, but to make a film about it and have a vehicle for storytelling, not just in theory but in practice, and share the work on a global scale,” she says. 

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