Eileen Level

Eileen Level, alumna of The New School IEI Fellowship, is a champion of the cinema-going experience, has been working in the film festival industry since 2014 and since then has launched PaleFO Cinema, amplifying voices through the cinematic arena which seeks to look forward to the evolution of the cinescape experience in NYCHA. Beyond this she managed the Education Department at New York International Children’s Film Festival, an Oscar-qualifying film festival bringing films that represent and celebrate unique, diverse, and historically excluded voices to thousands of students throughout NYC and Newark, NJ! In 2023 Level spoke at SXSW on the 90 minute Film School panel about her journey as a budding exhibitor and mission to quench cinema deserts. Later that year she founded AniTOMO Manga and Anime Convention, which has become one of the largest free manga and anime conventions in the country, designed to celebrate diverse perspectives from historically underrepresented communities.

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Anitomo Convention: http://www.anitomo.org/