Lecturer says more women are needed behind the camera and that their recent success at the Oscars can help evoke positive change. Dijana Jelaca has taught students in Brooklyn College’s Undergraduate Film Department and at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema. Jelaca currently teaches a “Women in Film” course, and she talked about the importance of inclusiveness in film during Women’s History Month and if awards, including this month’s Academy Awards, still matter. About Dijana Jelaca Dijana Jelaca is the author of Dislocated Screen Memory: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema (Palgrave, 2016) and co-author of Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction (Routledge, 2019). She co-edited several scholarly volumes, including The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender (Routledge, 2017). Her research interests include transnational feminist film studies, women’s film history, posthuman feminisms, and South Slavic film cultures. Her essays have appeared in Signs, Camera Obscura, Feminist Media Studies, Jump Cut and elsewhere. She is also a programming director of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival in New York City.
