Olympia Christofinis
Accolades, Education & Projects
Finalist in Flare Studio Scholarship competition | 2017
Phi Beta Kappa | 2015
Phi Sigma Iota | 2015
The Matthew Leydt Society (top 2% of the Class of 2015 at Rutgers) | 2015
Recipient of Most Outstanding Female Senior Award from the French Department at Rutgers | 2015
Winner of John van der Poel Examination in French | 2015
Best Actress Award from sketch group College Ave Players | 2015
Undergraduate Awards "Highly Commended" (essay submitted was classified in the top 10% out of 4,791 essay submissions) | 2014
2018-2020 | MA, Directing and Producing Television Entertainment at National Film and Television School
2016 | Fulbright Scholarship, Malaysia
2011-2015 | BA, Magna Cum Laude, French major and double minor in Russian and Art History at Rutgers University
Producer of Culture Shock, an original NFTS student production of a live arts & culture magazine show | 2018
Director of pilot episode of multi-camera studio show "Kitchen Chaos," an original NFTS student production | 2018
As part of her Fulbright placement, Olympia developed a Composting Program at S.M.K Dato' Mahmud School in Malaysia, which was the first of it's kind in the entire district of Pekan | 2016
Assistant Editor of documentary "Antarctic Edge: 70 Degrees South" | 2013