Sothysen Tuyhor

As a current editor for the journal and now in my second year of regularly writing for it, my plans, though not guarantees, for the journal would include:

• Better marketing to allow for an even wider array of writers and contributors to the journal, especially opening it up for one-time or guest piece submissions
  • Opening up a submission link or form in case students may be unable to join meetings regularly
• Opening up more editing opportunities and outlets for film discussion like video reports or talk pieces
  • Ensuring more capacity for more student voices 
• More journal-specific events like working with the society's events organisers to allow for talks by figures and experts in film and writing on film accessible to all
• Advocating for more funds for writers to contribute towards festival entry and engagement with film events
  • To show the journal's support for our writers
• Ensuring more continuous and consistent support to all members of the journal and their ideas, including the podcast
  • Communicating deadlines like the print edition earlier

These efforts would go towards improving the quality and standards of the journal as a diverse, passionate and humanistic platform for student voices on film and TV. I believe in continuing the journal's ethos of well reasoned and insightful engagement with cinema as art, an inherently human endeavour. Through this vision I hope to allow the journal to be a great safe space and new pillar for student writing and artistic engagement at UCL.