Tessa MacDonald (Film Studies)

Hometown:  St. Clair, Michigan

Social Media: Instagram – @tessamarmac, Twitter – @tessammacdonald

Major/Class Standing: Film Studies, Junior

Internship Employer/Location: Traverse City Film Festival, Traverse City, Michigan

My favorite experience from my internship was learning about all the possible jobs I can do in the film industry at a film festival alone. So much work goes into running a film festival, and I loved being apart of that. 

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Tessa MacDonald

At my internship, I learned about different film formats and how to properly research a film. I also learned how to enter film data into a database and how to reformat posters and print them, among a million other things. TCFF was an amazing hands on learning experience.

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