Aurora Amidon   

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: Media journalist with three years of experience. Has worked as a staff writer, editor, columnist, news reporter, and interviewer. Writing has appeared in Paste Magazine, Film School Rejects, Consequence, Screen Slate, CBR, Looper, The Final Girls, Film Daily, Film Cred, Screen Queens, and The Wrap. 
                                                 
EXPERIENCE Regular movie, TV, and comedy reviews, news posts, essays, and lists. Movie section coverage of the 2022 SxSW.  Regular reviews, articles, news pieces, essays, and retrospectives. Coverage of 2021 SxSW,  ran the Great Expectations news column, curated social media content, and edited other writers’ copy.
  • CONSEQUENCE: Editorial Intern - Feb - June 2022, Contributor - Present
Regular news posts, blurbs, lists, and interviews. 
  • CBR July 2022- Feb 2023 - News Journalist​
Breaking TV and movie news articles.
  • ​​FILM DAILY: News Journalist - Oct 2020 - Apr 2021 
Pitched and wrote articles, wrote headlines, conducted research, sourced images, and trained in SEO, WordPress, and spotting trending news stories.
  • PROTOZOA PICTURES: Development Intern - ​June - Aug 2019
Coverage of IP and screenplays for Darren Aronovsky. 

ACADEMIC PAPERS
“Andrei Tarkovsky’s Linguistic Subversion of the Abrahamic Knight of Faith.” 
UC Undergraduate Journal of Slavic and East/European Studies at UCLA. (August 2021)       

SKILLS 
Typing: 97 w.p.m, Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, German language proficiency, Social Media Marketing, SEO, WordPress, Moveable Type.                
EDUCATION
Bard College August 16 - May 20. GPA 3.8. 
Double major: Film Studies, Literature (BA). 
AWARDS
Bard College Undergraduate Film Department Awards
The Larisa Shepitko Award for Cinematic Ambition and Scope. (May 2020)