Stella Naymik

Experience

Since starting her college education, Stella has been instrumental in the creation of a wide range of projects. She is incredibly involved, participating in multiple student organizations, which include The Female Filmmakers’ Initiative (FFI) as the Director, The Creator Collective as former Secretary, and The Kent State Writers’ Room. She is the Executive Producer of mood9, a student-led start-up production company associated with LaunchNet at KSU. Most notably, she has produced a pilot episode titled “Bunkers” for a Production 2 class that won Best Editing and Best Actor at the Flash Film Festival. She shot a short film for FFI titled “A Positive Outcome,” which received an Award of Excellence through the Broadcast Education Association. She is also in the midst of producing another senior project, as well as a documentary which will finish post-production this summer. She has participated in countless other student and local productions in various roles. Stella has taken part in multiple 48-hour film projects. As a co-writer and Assistant Director, her team, Friends Per Second, took home Best Cinematography and third place overall for their short, “Wilted,” in Cleveland’s chapter of the competition.

Learn more about these projects and more in the Portfolio section.

Stella has also studied Italian cinema abroad in Florence, Italy, and documentary filmmaking under guidance from 1895 Films in Monte Carlo, Monaco. She has also interned with The Greater Cleveland Film Commission, Shape Cleveland, and the National Film Festival for Talented Youth. She is now a part-time employee at Shape, and freelances for PBS Western Reserve on occasion.

She is currently in post-production of her senior honors thesis and capstone film. Click here to learn more about it.

To see Stella in action, click here.