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In the Light of COVID-19
In the last 11 years, a study discovered that of the 1100 films created, only 4% were directed by women, equating to 22 male directors hired for every woman director. They also concluded that of the 43 female directors who made movies from 2007 to 2017, only 2 were Asians....
The Unexpected PANDAmic
I'm a Visual Effects Student currently stuck at home like others and in this video I have portrayed how an unwanted adorable anonymous gift turns into a cursed nightmare for me. Well, I had my plans already settled for 2020, to go explore Canada and get a perspective for my...
To Solitude
I am a master's student in Documentary Film at Baltic Film school of Tallinn University. After studying for a few years in Russian colleges, I constantly was thinking about study abroad and finally I managed to start my film education in Estonia.I have been studying at Baltic Film school for...
Up And Down
This video is a story about my situation during the pandemic as a foreign student in China. I encounter many problems and obstacles during my final year. it affects my graduation as well. I sum up all my experiences in this 2 minutes video. - Yoga Mahendra, ...
Corona Blues
The time we are dealing in not the best time to study abroad. But that doesn't mean we should stop our effort to meet new people, meet new culture. This video is about how I managed to meet new people during the pandemic. - Joonyoung Kim, South Korea
It Gets Better
I'm currently doing my Masters in Sustainable Environmental Management at the University of Saskatchewan. I was supposed to graduate in August 2020, but due to COVID-19 I couldn't work on my (back then) graduation project; I had to stay another term and start a different project. - Ossama Ibrahim, ...
Step Out Of The Race
During hard times, we often lose our purpose in life. The plan we had laid out so well doesn't seem to work, unprecedented circumstances happen to us all the time. At these times, it is easier to forget our dreams, our path, and follow others. It is easier to be...
My Covid-19 Story
Hi! I am Gaura and I made many friends during the pandemic as an international student in Denmark. This is my story. - Gaura Naithani, India
I Look Forward To This Day
I want to go to Turkey, Greece and Italy because the greatest civilizations came out of these countries. There are rich historical, cultural and traditional places that I would love to see and experience as well as share the lives of different people groups through my videos and blog. ...
Never Give Up - My Exchange Program
Studying abroad has always been my dream. After tremendous efforts, I was finally given the chance to fulfill it. However, not everything is under our control... - Alexey Korablev, Russia
Never Stop Dreaming!
Dreams, we all have them and we all wish to fulfil them, whether it is achieving world peace or even earning lots of money. My dream right now is travelling to Australia and completing my PhD degree in chemistry. I have spent years of my life working hard and striving...
Masks And Eyes
Life as an international student during the coronavirus pandemic! Everything is different but my postgraduate dreams are not. - Chikaodili Chidinma Okoye, Nigeria
Life In The Time Of COVID-19
This is ajoy, I am doing my fellowship under the Unesco program in CUC, Beijing. My major is cross-cultural communication . - Obaudur Chowdhury (Ajoy), Bangladesh
The Home Of An International Student
I’m an undergraduate international student from India currently studying Architecture in New York. Due to the pandemic, I had to leave New York and stay with my sister in North Carolina. Since March, we’ve been isolating ourselves and I’ve been taking classes online here. A few reasons I didn’t go...
After Lock Down
I would be going for a Bsc in Health Science at the University Of South Dakota, USA - Joshua Edward Ofere, Nigeria
Something Radical
I chose to pursue an international education because I believe that there so much knowledge and empathy that can be obtained by meeting people in worlds completely different from my own. As a first-generation college student, an exciting part of this is a 4-week summer program offered by my school...
UNFINISHED CHAPTER
In this videos it travels through the different chapter that has brought me to be doing this video. One of the reasons I want to study abroad is because my dream career ,film,is not available in any school in my home country. The United States has the biggest entertainment industry...
My Travel Video
My decision to study abroad came from the desire of getting out of my comfort zone and putting myself out there to be emerged in a different culture and way of living. I believe the best way to grow is to get out of your comfort zone, and this experience...
AGRI IS THE KEY
Studying abroad is one of my greatest dreams. If I will be given the opportunity to do so, I'd like to study in an institution that offers agricultural degrees in the United States to further my studies in the said field. COVID-19 will not stop me from being an advocate...
If You Can SEA(E) It You Can BE It
Current worldwide lockdown changed everyone`s plan. Everyone feels confused about what they can expect from tomorrow, however, we have to create a possible action for the future when things get back to normal. My future plan after COVID-19 includes completing a vocational training course in Singapore and get internationally quoted...
What Could Have Been
Born and raised in Vietnam and currently working in the Netherlands, I aspire to expand my horizons even more by doing a Master's degree in Sweden. This video shows how COVID-19 has disrupted my life emotionally and financially and put my dream on hold. Despite these challenges, I am learning...
Alone, Together
A micro version of a short documentary I shot and produced as part of my MA in Digital Documentary at the University of Sussex. My year of studying abroad was cut in half due to the Covid-19 pandemic. My film is a personal essay of the journey back home amid...
Dear 2021
This spoken word is my letter to 2021. I plan to study in the Netherlands in the coming year, and as many other students, I have a new challenging factor added to the mix: Covid-19. This video is about my hopes and wishes to the new year and the adventures...
All Your Dreams Are Feasible
My name is Liudmyla, I am studying in the Czech Republic as a fashion designer. This is the story of my decisions .... and you know, the best of them was to go to study abroad, I went to Armenia ..I have been hearing a lot of positive things about...
Corona Has Changed My Year
I had to take part in three educational and exchange programs this year. But this happened and now I’m trying to live in online format. Frankly speaking, video is about me and total uncertainty. - Ekaterina, Russia
Finding A Home Away From Home
2020 was the accomplishment of a dream, however, in a hard timing. In this video, I approach from a personal perspective the experience of living in an international environment during a pandemic, and during the most vulnerable moments, finding a home in the arms of my friends. - Juliana Pinho...
STORY OF MY LIFE
My name is Larissa, and I am currently going after my dream during this global pandemic. Yeah you read that right, sounds kind of crazy doesn’t it? You may ask, what is this dream? And I will say it’s to study in a drama college abroad. I will be brief...
Life After Lockdown A Love Letter
Hey, I am Ro, this short video/film expresses my deep love to my family and friends that I am not able to see them due to the pandemic in a poetic and artistic way. I am a master student studying communication in Barcelona, Spain where I came here a year...
Take The Rough With The Smooth
My dream became a goal when I discovered studying abroad was possible. I want to go to college in the United States to get the best education and to be able to help my community develop. - Bianca Ramos Bittencourt , Brazil
International Students Travel Video Contest 2020
This video gives insights on my journey from Russia to France during COVID-19. - Valeriia Galandina, Russia
COVID Impact On My Life As A Student
After living in Ghana for the past year studying as an international student, I have seen how much beautiful the country tells it's stories to tourists or foreigners. I intend to go back home as an international student and capture some of the most beautiful places in my country, Cameroon,...
Studying Abroad After COVID-19
From an early age, I've always wanted to travel the world! When I enrolled in industrial engineering at a public university in Colombia, where I'm from, I discovered a program in my student's affairs office that allowed the students to take one semester abroad. After that, I studied hard to...
Graduated...the COVID way
I studied my final semester during the COVID time. I lost my part time job through which I was supporting myself. The transition to online classes were also challenging as the medium was new and there were several technical glitches. Because of this, I performed the worst during my final...
International Education VS COVID-19
My dream International education experience would be to travel the world studying and training the multitude of martial arts that exist, learning and exchanging customs with people from all around the planet. - Malcolm Washington, United States
My Unusual Exchange Year
My video is about my experience as an exchange student in the United States, and about how Corona Virus has influenced it. - Carola Segato, Italy
Fight Travel
This story is about a girl from 1920 who dreams about time travel. She wants to move for 100 years in the future to meet people from the 21st century. Unfortunately, in 2020, the planet is into a pandemic, and she cannot reach the main goal — the cultural exchange....
Dream Is Real
Hello! I'm Polly and I'm a finalist of two exchange programs for Russians in the U.S. - "MEGA" and "YEAR". Both programs were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I've made this video to show that you should keep going and never give up! All your dreams will come true!...
THE BATTLE WITHIN
A career guidance counselor introduced a few scholarship programs for aeronautical engineering.Which I will apply for right after I'm done and have my highschool results.Although it will require payments for application and also transport costs to Johannesburg hence my participation in the International student travel video contest. - Einau Paul...
LIFE BEYOND EXPECTATIONS
It was my strong desire to become a professional aaccountant.However Covid 19 has put a hold on my application peocedure. However I believe things will improve and soon I can join my desired course in New Zealand. - Saji chacko, India
As The New World Starts Turning
When I realised how much of my university learning had been lost to Covid-19 I knew I had to do something about it, and so I plan to go to a summer exchange programme in South Korea in Summer 2021, and do a year abroad in Paris France 2021/22. This...
How Covid-19 has impacted my international education
BA Degree at Fine Arts Faculty - Aizhan, Kazakhstan
Faces
During this hard times most of the views point at students, but we should also look from teacher's perspective.This short film shows the challenge that a new teacher has to face during the first days of the course. Now is different, now is not as it used to be... this...
TVC 2020: Life After Lockdown
I am going to study BA Exercise Science at Augsburg University in Minnesota. I have a passion for sports and teaching children. Studying Exercise science will enable me to help children achieve their dreams in sports and have good future. I hope to help children in disadvantaged communities.This pandemic helped...
My Tomorrow
Even in the hardest times, we all have the chance to make our dreams come true. I’ve been inspired by many friends who had the chance to change their lives. But it all started with a dream. Throughout my school life, I’ve always wished to work with NASA, but this...
Spring Again
A summer spent living with a French family, taking classes, and shadowing medical students and physicians – the WU Pre-Med Program in Nice is a selective program that only accepts students who already possess advanced proficiency in French. It is this program that I hope will catapult my ability in...
Short Cultural Student Exchanges
In this video I speak about previous abroad experiences I did during the last 2 years and what I believe to be the future of these programs for high school students. - Emilio Jiménez Velázquez, Mexico
TIME TRAVEL
I am enrolling for an MBA so as to have a broader perspective in management, supply chain, marketing and leadership. I want to develop the ability to think widely about the world of business. - SALMAH ANIMASHAUN, Nigeria
A World In My Room
As a future ecologist, I'm interested in environmental approaches used in foreign countries. U.S. provides even better education comparing to my university, that's why I have applied for the exchange program. You gonna ask: why your video is not about the environment? Well, COVID affected me a lot: I have...
MY STUDY ABROAD AND 2020
We all live in a world of changes. Every day is filled with millions of events around the globe. All nations are simultaneously very close, but at the same time they are still quite different in their diversity of culture, traditions, philosophy. For me, studying abroad is an opportunity to...
I Decided To Stay
Despite the COVUD-19 pandemic and the fact that my fellow international students were leaving the United States, I decided to start an internship and don't leave the Country. I made a short movie explaining the feeling of solitude caused by everything that happened during the last months. My plan is...
2020 Travel Video Contest
Currently, I am studying at Moscow Skolkovo Institude of Science and Technology. Because of pandemic I had to stay at hometown because country borders are closed. This university is one of the few in Russia, which has English as in-class language and Internationally diverse. Moscow itself is a very large...
How Coronavirus Have Changed My Dance Studies
Hi! I´m Tatiana Hidalgo from Ecuador and I´m so excited of being part of this incredible international contest. I have dedicated most part of my life to dance, that is why I want to obtain a bachelor of Dance the next year in a univeristy of United States, this is...
No Way Nanjing!
What began as a flagship program to establish Chinese fluency turned into a case-study of international relations in the midst of a pandemic. Here's my experience as I had to leave my host city, Nanjing, to return the United States on unexpected terms. - Noemi Florea, USA
New Reality
In this video, I'm going to tell you "How COVID-19 has impacted my international education and cultural exchange experience abroad"Nowadays it's such a difficult period for all over the world which I prefer to call "New reality". During my studying abroad I was faced with 30 hours of arrival, wearing...
Film(Making Hope)
My name is Letícia. In this video I talk a little about me and my plans for the future. - Letícia Rodrigues de Lima, Brazil
Waking Up Again
Recently I got acepted in the Special Education, B.S. degree program at Indiana University. It was always my dream to become a teacher and I believe I can achieve it trought my pasion for education. I chose Unites States because it think that is the best place in the world...
Dreams And Pandemics
In words from my heart I explain my plans for my bright future. - Paola Pérez Ramírez, Mexico
Hope: Life After Lockdown
The lock down and the pandemic took quite a lot away for me. But it also taught me very deep personal and important lessons. It taught me to find the joy in little things, and be appreciative of both where I come from and where I am. With the scholarship,...
BitterSweet COVID
After finishing my bachelors in Film Production and Information Systems, I got accepted for a MFA in Film and Video at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design that I postponed for next year due to the pandemic. - Amadeo Gjurra, Albanian
The Dream...
I started completing a Masters in Orientation and Mobility through Western Michigan University in 2019 and was due to travel to the US in June 2020, to be there for 6 months to complete my degree. The focus of the degree is working with blind children. Despite the estimate that...
Social Distancing In The Nomadic Wild
I am planning to become an undergraduate student at the Fairleigh Dickinson University. However, due to the Covid 19 Pandemic, my plans were postponed. All the borders in Mongolia are closed, hence, I travelled within the country and made this short video on how I social distanced in the beautiful...
Sandys Pandreamy Year
This particular video is a reflection of my Humphrey Fellowship last year at Boston University. Humphrey Fellowship is a Fulbright exchange program of the US Department of State for mid-career professionals. My concentration of study was Finance & Banking. For the 2019-20 session, we had 13 fellows in Boston University....
How The Coronavirus Ruined One Of The Best Years Of My Life
This year was supposed to be the best year of my life, because it was exactly in 2020 that I got the opportunities to which I have been going for so long! What I'm talking about, you will understand by watching the video! The coronavirus took away from me opportunities...
Getting A Second Wind
Everybody fails, but this does not mean success never comes. The same story with Covid19, this disease is not in our lifetime. Albeit it hurt many, it taught humanity how to fight unitedly. As an international student, it was quite challenging time for me, but with the support of my...
The Little Things Matter
Life can sometimes feel paused, stagnant, or even unfair. I had often neglected the small wins or anything I ever accomplished because I only looked forward to the big ones. The little things do matter. I will be attending graduate school (Master of Public Health) in the next academic session....
There Goes The Berlin Wall
Last July, I was supposed to board a plane that will take me Berlin, Germany. I was supposed to join my first ever (offline) international students festival and have the time of my life. The program, Greifswald International Students Festival (GrIStuF) 2020, is basically a sort of informal forum where...
College Madness
I am able to go to college to go into the medicine field. I want to be a PA for sports medicine, and I want to help athletes be able to do the sport they love. - Lee-Ann Weide, Germany
To Be Commentator
learn categorically - Farrukh waseem, Pakistan
How Covid-19 affected International Student
My name is Hazimah Husna and currently, I'm in my last semester as an international student in one of the top universities in Malaysia. Right now I'm looking for my master's degree abroad and I found out that the tuition fee is too much and I looking for a...
How COVID-19 Caused My International Experience
Hello everyone! I'm an exchange Master-student at University of Antwerp, in the video you'll know how I've got here and why, you'll see beatiful views of Belgium and learn somehing about Russian history. Enjoy! - Evelina, Russian Federation
High Hopes It Takes Me Back To When It All First Started
World school. Where we all stand as one. "High hopes" reflects, how things may change there, on the top. You are on the waves of a roller - coaster ride, moving, rushing to the point but suddenly you stop. And you want to continue, but you also remember this exciting...
The Last Hope
Now my education abroad is postponed and I have an online course in Missouri state University. My future plans are described in the video - Irina Polyanskaya, Russia
How To Be A Student During A Pandemic?
My name is Brenda Borges and I am Brazilian student in Portugal. I’ve been living here for almost a year now and when I was about to start my second semester in International Relations, COVID-19 began. I had to come back to Brasil, stay in quarantine with my family and...
International Student Scholarship
I intend to use the InternationalStudent.com scholarship in order to fund the application process for my master's degree program which includes studying with a Korean Language tutor as well as attending, depending on the conditions of COVID-19 at the time, a two-month Intensive Language program at Chung-Ang University in Seoul...
(Not) Study Abroad
Studying abroad is always important experience. New people, new culture, a lot of new information, language, friends. This is the thing that helps to become more adult and experienced. Find new ways to solve problems. Another type of living makes people more professional and multilateral development. - Liudmila, ...
Behind The Mask
Studying abroad at Harvard University in the USA will be a monumental step in realizing my personal, academic, and career goals to my highest potential. Growing up, I’ve wanted to see and experience the different states & cultures of the people in the USA. As an upcoming Researcher, I plan...
The Future Behind The Mask
Currently, I have been offered a conditional offer at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom to start an integrated foundation course in Law. - Jasmine Danielle Mensah, Ghana
How The Lockdown And The Travel Ban Affected My Future
This content includes my view on the lockdowns and travel bans. I also talk about how badly this has affected my future life. - Paris Kevin Ketema, Hungary
Waiting For The Spring
I am doing masters of multimedia journalism as a Fulbright scholar. In my school, we have online, hybrid and in-person classes. My graduation project will be a professional portfolio in it I will do different journalistic work about the Syrian refugees in the US. - Lina Elshrief, ...
Adil Means Fair
After finishing my bachelor and starting master in Homecountry i'm dreaming to participate in exchange programm again! We dare to eplore! - Adil, Kazakhstan
Mental Mind Tricks
I want to study abroad to expand my horizons and learn more about the mental health field relating to psychology. In a country like Australia where health care is accessible to anyone and everyone I felt drawn to it. Mental health has always felt like a neglected topic in society....
The Fight For Education
I want to make my dream come true. So I am getting ready for a good varsity. I'm not disappointed. No one is by my side but I'm trying. I hope I will win one day. - Adnan Hussan Ruhul, Bangladesh
A Creative Perspective Saves My 2020 Study Abroad Trip
As an international student who expects to make the most out of their study abroad trip, 2020 was a difficult year to allow us to achieve that. The COVID pandemic created financial and mental obstacles in my path to Academic success. Despite that , being quarantined away from all family...
International Student TVC 2020
I am an international student studying in the United States. Due to the pandemic I lost my internship and am in need of financial support. I am a junior studying Electrical engineering and Math at GVSU, Michigan. - Dixit Gurung, Nepal
Life After Lockdown: TVC 2020
How my ideal international education or cultural exchange after Covid-19 Life After Lockdown : I am a Latin Spanish speaking participant who is participating in a video contest in order to get a grant to continue studying English .
The Effekt Of Korona Vyrus
The Effekt of Korona Vyrus is more than just to b considerable as economikal only If Education is Our Future then it has been adjusted to it Expectations of Momentum of Change disturbed - Joseph Waddy Mboma, United Republic of Tanzania
My Perfect Exchange, After Cvid-19
In this video, I will talk a little about my exchange to Germany, people I want to meet, places I want to visit, after the pandemic is over. - Bruna Bezerra Da Conceição, Brasil
Impact of covid-19 on school
I want to study outside but covid-19 impact on me - Nova, Kenya
Impacts Of COVID-19
I plan to study computer science at Murray State University from Spring 2021. - Richard Zhemi, Zimbabwe
Nature Of Time.
I love art films.I love to watch them.I love acting and I love cinematography.If I had a chance to get into a acting school that would be very nice for me. - Tawhid, Bangladesh
Hello America And Coronavirus
I've been chosen to represent South Africa by studying Engineering in America and attending leadership courses as well.My goal is to obtain international experience and use it to grow my engineering company by producing inventions which are built by me to makes life easier for the less fortunate such as...
IMPACTION OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC
As international student we suffer global recession and impede student mobility much more severely and long lastingly.The COVID-19 pandemic grow global outbound mobility and economic downturn which affect mobility significantly and possible visa restrictions, travel restrictions, mail services and catastrophic of economic outlook for countries globally.It make difficulty of learning...
Life After Lock Down
Studying abroad at Harvard University in the USA will be a monumental step in realizing my personal, academic, and career goals to my highest potential. Growing up, I’ve wanted to see and experience the different states & cultures of the people in the USA. As an upcoming Researcher, I plan...
The Effect Of Corona Virus
Describe the negative and positive impact of Coronavirus on my education and culture - Youssef Edwar Mounir Melek, Egypt
Negative Impact Of Corona Virus Bv
My proposal was okay. - Asafo Mawuli Mensah Beata, Ghana
A Surprise in My Plans - Covid'19
Hey There, I have started my online quarter at the University of Washington In the MSIM program. Due to COVID, I couldn't travel USA for this quarter. - Mrudali Birla, India
Post COVID-19
Studying abroad will make a significant impact on me, having to learn about other cultures and as well excahnge my culture and changing views and notion about my country most importantly learn and inculcate what i jave learned to other when i get back to my country. - Yusuf Adebanjo,...
My Experience With COVID-19 Pandemic
Studying abroad is an opportunity for exposure and acquisition of valuable skills alongside intercultural experience. I would therefore appreciate such an opportunity as this. - OYEJOBI, GREATER KAYODE, Nigeria
The Impact Of Coronavirus On Educational System And The Impact Of Coronaviris On Cultural Exchange Globally
As a child to study abroad have been my dreams. Being able to study in a foreign land gives me the opportunity to learn about diversity. It gives a path way of learning other people's culture and what it means to be in other people's shoes. I believe my study...
And Life (?) Marches On...
A PhD startsfriendships are madeseasons come bythe climate is gonna change. And it changes fast and it changes now and pandemic strikes and airports are down.Another ambulance passes, my PhD passesand life? - Eva Costa de Barros, Netherlands
The Lockdown
Being born in a small family where l will be the first graduate is something huge. Also Poland is a great country and a little bit affordable as l would also want to learn and work as l study so l can pay for my tuition as l progress...
The Famous Object Of 2020
When I was young I lived two years in Spain with my parents near my dad’s job and I really liked it. I had a great experience meeting new people but also the culture, the food, the music, types of clothes... After my time in Spain I new I wanted...
Senteuganda
senteuganda provides easily accessible and affordable insurance services to peasaant farmers and market vendors online - kamugisha Christopher, Uganda
High To Low
I am currently studying abroad with the hope of going on exchange to canada in Fall Rahmat Surakat, Ghana
De Magallanes Para El Mundo
Expongo mi intercambio académico y cultural soñado específicamente en Inglaterra posterior a la pandemia de Covid-19 - Alejandro Nicolás Monsalves Garcés, Chile
My Experience With COVID 19
I'm in the United States for 10 months, I study at an American high school and I live with an American host family. - Emilie, France
How COVID-19 Has Impacted My Academic Journey In Line With International Studies
I am seeking to grow more into the area of arts and education and be of great benefit to Uganda and Africa at large - Grace Cephas Nkanji, Uganda
Art In Death
A paint on glass animation I made by hand.I hope to one day be able to study the art inspired by death. - Sarah Starks, United States
Life After Lockdown
My whole life I have been in a single town. I never got a chance to look at the world and experience different lifestyle. I'm from India and in India it's important or mandatory to have a secured future but I like to live and experience things as they come...
Post COVID Plan
I'd love to move to London to receive a masters in Fine art at Goldsmith's University. I plan to have this experience in 1 or 2 years' time (or when covid19 is under control) and to join the contemporary art scene over there. All props and imagery are hand-made pieces...
New Story
Hello there, Hope you are well and this video has given an important message to you. I have shared such a personal story that even most of my friends don't know about. I hope this will have a value for you, maybe you are also facing difficulties during COVID and...
Keep Going
Traveling makes me the happiest person in the world! It excites me like nothing else does. So, when a novel virus had burnt my aspirations, I was crushed. But then, something happened. A sudden realization dawned on me. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak about something that...
How COVID-19 snatched my long-awaited plans
I am already accepted for a mechatronics program in Universidad Politécnica de Madrid starting in Januart 2021. Furhtermore, I have been preselected for the Mitacs Globalink 2021 summer internships program in Canada!. Those are my upcoming studying abroad plans!