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View from the Top: Dr Pari Sara Shirazi, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts Asia
Contact with such luminaries as Oliver Stone has an important impact on many students, not least in their career planning. Tisch Asia offers a range of career services for its students, mirroring the activities undertaken in New York, supporting them in finding employment in the highly competitive worlds of filmmaking and dramatic writing. Using such electronic bulletins as the weekly “CareerLeads” service, which brings together Tisch students and employers in the arts and entertainment industries, the focus on ensuring that graduate students find relevant employment is significant. According to Dr Shirazi, contact with future employers is a service role that Tisch Asia actively offers. “We bring different people in to help students understand how things work in their particular areas. For example, we bring in lawyers to advise on how to sign a contract, or how to secure a good agent. We also put them in touch with experts and support them getting their work shown in festivals.”
Tisch Asia has added an exciting and important element to New York University.
Although only in its second year of operation, Tisch Asia has added an exciting and important element to New York University, one of the world’s leading institutions. By ensuring that key academic aspects are of exactly the same standard, students are secure in the knowledge that choosing Tisch Asia offers them access to a world-class graduate education in a uniquely Asian environment. Dr Shirazi’s experience over the last two years reflects this compelling combination of factors. “Whenever I have seen a student’s work here I have been really pleasantly surprised. At the Gala opening of Tisch Asia I said we were tired of seeing the same old stories from the same people and I wanted these students to tell me different stories from different places. To be honest, I thought this was going to take ten years, but by the second year I saw some magnificent films.”
