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Podcast: Cornell (thank) U
Episode: Cornell’s Elena Neuman ’88: How a 10-Minute Video Became a Feature Documentary (Plus The Song You Need on a Monday)
Description: We kick off the episode with the upbeat song from Looking Up, because it’s exactly the Monday energy you need. Elena Neuman ’88 joins us to share how a 10-minute video unexpectedly became a full feature documentary—filmed on the face of El Capitan in Yosemite.Elena reflects on her Cornell experience, the professor who changed her path, and what it really takes to tell a powerful story—from creative pivots during COVID to finding the heart of a film in the edit.She also shares her work leading the effort to build Cornell’s first stan...