CHANTAL EYONG

EDUCATION

University of Southern California — Ph.D., Media Arts & Practice (Expected May 2026)
University of California, Riverside — MFA, Screenwriting (June 2021)
University of California, Irvine — Certificate in E-Learning and Instructional Design (April 2019)
Rutgers University — BA, English (Creative Writing, Geography, Film Studies) (December 2009)

SKILLS & TOOLS

Skills: Video editing, writing, storytelling, training, instructional design, photography, camera operation
Tools: SCORM, Canvas, Blackboard, DSLR & 4K cameras, Adobe Creative Cloud, Final Cut Studio, Articulate Storyline

CREATIVE STORYTELLING ENGAGEMENTS

  • Invited Participant, Imaginative Intelligences Assembly, Mozilla Foundation + Berggruen Institute — Beverly Hills, CA (May 2025)                                                                                                          Selected for an interdisciplinary gathering exploring creativity, narrative, and ethics in the age of AI. Participated in collaborative discussions with artists, researchers, and technologists on future-facing storytelling
  • Interactive Narrative Contributor (Confirmed), Snorkel AI — 2025
    Confirmed contributor to an AI-powered roleplay project focused on writing immersive, quest-driven conversations. Responsibilities include shaping dialogue, worldbuilding, and refining AI-generated responses to preserve tone, character, and emotional flow. (Project launching June 2025

AWARDS & HONORS

  • 2025–2026: Gerald A. Lawson USC Games Fund Scholarship, PlayStation Career Paths
  • 2024–2025: Gerald A. Lawson USC Games Fund Scholarship, PlayStation Career Paths
  • 2025: Gray Area Scholarship, “Weirding AI: Fine Tuning and RAG for Poets & Artists”
  • 2020: Screencraft Drama Semifinalist, Feature Screenplay Queens of Clarendon
  • 2013: Mid-Atlantic EMMY Nominee, Thailand Untapped
  • 2013: Winner, Best Homegrown Short Documentary, Garden State International Festival, Thailand Untapped
  • 2013: Official Selection, Cannes Festival Short Film Corner, Rings We Bear
  • 2012: Finalist, Lenovo “Seize the Night” Commercial Grant

CONFERENCES

  • 2025 “Remixing the Quotidian: Crafting Sensuous Archives of Black Girlhood in Digital and Tactile Materials” at the More-Than-Human Symposium at Oxford University
  • 2025 “Black Digital Porosity, Liminal Space, and the Retro Interface” at the Aberrations Conference at the University of California, Los Angeles
  • 2025 “Hacking the Sandbox: Black Digital Craftwork, Modding, and Refusal in The Sims” at the Bridges and Borders: Media (In)Forms Conference at Carnegie Mellon University
  • 2025 “Fugitive Play: Black Women, The Sims, and Speculative Modding” at the Northeast Modern Languages Association
  • 2025 “Worldmaking: Gaming, Mapping, and Troubling the Limits of Control” at the USC Annenberg Graduate Symposium co-exhibition
  • 2024 “The Physicality of Post-Colonial Memory: The African Female Protagonist in Video Games” at the Northeast Modern Languages Association
  • 2024 “The Physicality of Post-Colonial Memory: The African Female Protagonist in Video Games” at the (Inter)disciplinary Bodies Conference, Brunel University
  • 2024 “Sound as Touch: Using Sound to Develop Auto-Ethnographic Text and Embodied Practice for Intergenerational Stories About Migration” at the In The Field Conference, Creative Research Into Sound Arts Practice, University of the Arts London
  • 2024 “Sound as Touch: Using Sound to Develop Auto-Ethnographic Text and Embodied Practice for Intergenerational Stories About Migration” at the Bridges and Borders: Media (In)Forms Conference at Carnegie Mellon University
  • 2023 “Ephemeral Archives: Flared, Filtered, Framed, Forgotten” at the USC Annenberg Graduate Symposium co-exhibition
  • 2022 “Braided Figures as Chronotopes” at the USC Annenberg Graduate Symposium exhibition

FELLOWSHIPS

  • 2024–2025: Annenberg Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship
  • 2023–2024, 2025–2026: Center for Media and Ethnographic Arts Fellowship
  • 2021–2022: Experimental Realism Fellow
  • 2020: Gluck Teaching Fellow
  • 2018–2019: Creative Lab Hawaii Writers Immersive Fellowship

SCREENINGS & EXHIBITIONS

  • Forest for the Trees in collaboration with Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, Descanso Gardens (2025)
  • Loading: A Black Quantum Futurist Retrospective, Video Installation, CultureHub Los Angeles (2025)
  • Memory Hacks: A Room for Dreaming, Mixed Media Installation, University of Southern California (2025)
  • Terms of Service, Short Film, TFDP Film Festival, University of California, Riverside (2023)
  • Braided Figures as Chronotopes – Memory and Black Fugitivity in Hair Braiding, Hand Crochet, and Lanyard String, University of Southern California (2022)

COMMERCIAL  & TELEVISION 

  • 2023: Sharkfest Videographer, Crush Studios for Disneyland Parks
  • 2012: Co-Producer & Co-Editor, Art of Becoming, Dir. Dena Seidel
  • 2011: Co-Director, Editor, Cinematographer, Thailand Untapped, Dir. Dena Seidel
  • 2009: Associate Producer & Editor, Atlantic Crossing: A Robot’s Daring Mission, Dir. Dena Seidel
  • 2012: Director of Photography, Latin in America TV Pilot Series, Dirs. Joaquin + Corina Rosa
  • 2012: Co-Director, Producer, Editor, Operation Seize the Night, Client: Lenovo PC
  • 2012: Videographer, Jeffrey Cares Fashion Show, Client: Waalton Isaacson

FILMS

  • Terms of Service (Short, 2023) — Writer, Director: Anoop Nijjar
  • Same Time, Same Place (Short, 2020) — Director, Co-writer
  • R E C Y C L I N G (Short, 2020) — Director, Writer
  • Rings We Bear (Short, 2012) — Co-Writer, Director of Photography, Editor, Dir. Steve Holloway
  • Chemo: A Love Story (Short, 2012) — Director of Photography, Editor, Dir. Keith Walker

WORKSHOPS

  • 2023: “Craft and Storytelling” for Worldbuilding Course, University of Southern California
  • 2022: “Materiality and Worldbuilding” for Worldbuilding Course, University of Southern California
  • 2021: “The Power of the Pause” for Public Speaking Course, UC Riverside
  • 2019: Telling Stories for the Screen, Trainer/Facilitator, Reality Ministries
  • 2010: Editing and Final Cut Pro, Trainer, Rutgers Institute for Women’s Leadership

PUBLICATIONS

  • 2024: “So This is Home: Intergenerational Dynamics Amidst Cameroon’s Crisis,” St. Johns Humanities Review
  • 2021: “Pidgin in Fashion: Cameroonian-American Designer Uses Language and Culture to Influence Her West African-Inspired Clothing Brand,” Sayaspora
  • 2020: “Unpacking Quiet: Unpacking Silence in this Racially Charged Time,” Sayaspora, Boshemia

ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

  • 2022–2025: Summer Film and TV Instructor, Long Beach CAP, Long Beach, CA
  • 2020–2022: Contributing Writer, Sayaspora
  • 2020: Features/TV Development Intern (Remote), Skydance Media
  • 2017–2019: Media Producer / LX Analyst, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA
  • 2016–2017: Media Producer, Instructional Designer, Think Together, Santa Ana, CA
  • 2012–2016: Media Specialist, UC Irvine Extension, Irvine, CA
  • 2011–2012: Associate Producer / Video Instructor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • 2022–2024: TA, Worldbuilding, University of Southern California (Prof. Alex McDowell)
  • 2022, 2023, 2025: Film + TV Instructor, Long Beach Community Action Partnership
  • 2020: TA, Introduction to Filmmaking, UC Riverside
  • 2019: TA, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside
  • 2012: Instructor, Video Editing Lab Course, Rutgers University
  • 2010–2011: Instructor, Media and Technology, Rutgers Future Scholars Summer Program

SERVICE

  • 2021–2023, 2025: Department Exhibition Contributor, IMappening
  • 2021–Present: Core Team Leader & Volunteer, Heart LA Church
  • 2022–2023: Contributor, A Preemptive Study, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition
  • 2018–2022: Mentor, Road to Communications and Media Program
  • 2015–2017: Co-Founder & Lead Videographer, Brew Sessions Live