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Umair Bilal <\/b>is a documentary filmmaker whose undergrad in Media Sciences introduced him\u00a0 to the world of visual storytelling. In 2012, he received a full scholarship to start a joint master\u00a0 degree in Documentary Film Direction under the Erasmus Mundus program of the European Commission (<\/span>www.docnomads.eu<\/span><\/a>), where he studied in University of Theater and Film Arts\u00a0 in Budapest, LUCA School or Arts in Brussels and Lusofona University in Lisbon. He got the\u00a0 opportunity to direct several documentary films which were screened in various international\u00a0 film festivals. His recent interest in research is exploring the intersection of visual anthropology\u00a0 and interactive media.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Umair Bilal is a documentary filmmaker whose undergrad in Media Sciences introduced him\u00a0 to the world of visual storytelling. In 2012, he received a full scholarship to start a joint […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1627,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-rights-and-representation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/researchkitchens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/researchkitchens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/researchkitchens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/researchkitchens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/researchkitchens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/researchkitchens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/researchkitchens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}