Leena Jayaswal
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Leena Jayaswal is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington DC. She is head of the Photography Concentration. Her films have been screened in various film festivals around the country.
“An Impression: Dischord Records” was honored as the Best Selected Juror Film at the 2nd Annual Small International Film Festival at the Berkeley Art Center, in California and has screened in other juried film festivals, including the Electric City Film Fest, Miami Independent Film and Music, Delray Beach Film Festival, DC Meets Delhi Film Festival, National Museum of Women in the Arts Film Festival and DC Independent Film Festival just to name a few. Her photography has been nationally recognized in galleries around the country, including the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, The Washington Project for the Arts/ Corcoran Gallery of Art and the International Visions Gallery.
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