Gitanjali Kapila Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Greater Chicago Area

FilmmakingWriter, Meet the Singhilas #brampton (family sitcom)• In developmentCo-writer, Director, Groped (narrative short)• Post-productionWriter, Mayhem (narrative feature)• In developmentWriter, Producer, Director, Bat (narrative short)• Post-productionWriter, Producer, Director, Breathing above the Treeline (narrative short)• Trailer: https://vimeo.com/user18079532• Film: https://vimeo.com/294657183Writer, Director, Co-producer, Weaning (digital video, experimental short)• Link: https://vimeo.com/66612204Writing and Conference PapersWriter, The Hero’s Journey as Anti-Narrative: Descent to Dissent on the way up towards Revolution and Resolution in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite and Disney’s 1950 animated Cinderella • Forthcoming May 2020 in The Heroine’s Journey: Toward a new conceptual weaving of narratives within the infinite internet loom, an edited volume published by The University of Palermo, Buenos AiresWriter, The Black Heroine in the Mirror: crossing the threshold of the specular image, the esoteric journey and the encounter with the annihilating I in Jordan Peele’s Us• Published in The Heroine’s Path: Narratives, Gender and Diversity, an edited volume published by The University of Palermo, Buenos AiresPresenter, The Labyrinth within the Kingdom: Narrative Cartography and Building the Imagined World for Developing Non-Linear Interactive Internet-based Storytelling• Presented at the CILECT Congress 2019, Moscow, Russia Writer, Stuck in a Labyrinth (or a Tower) with the Minotaur and trying to get out: Princess Aurora and Imperator Furiosa as the heroes of the Multimyth• Published in The Heroine’s Path, co-edited volume by The University of Palermo, Buenos Aires and Columbia College ChicagoPresenter, Points of View(er)s: the Viewer as Director/the Director as Viewer in the Binary Model of Non-sequential Storytelling in Steven Soderbergh’s Mosaic• Presented at the CILECT Congress 2018, Mumbai, India

Mfa, Film

Filmmaking, MFA with a concentration in writing and directing

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English Honors