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)                                                 
  • Interactive Narrative Contributor (Confirmed), Snorkel AI — 2025

AWARDS & HONORS

  • 2025–2026: 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

  • 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–Present: 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