Eileen Baptistin Level
Eileen Level, a champion of the cinema-going experience, has been working in the film festival industry since 2014 and since then has launched PaleFO Cinema, “Amplify Cinema. Impact Community”, amplifying voices through the cinematic arena which seeks to look forward to the evolution of the cinescape experience. Upon graduation, she has been piloting PaleFO Cinema a community-based cinema series to be produced and curated by youth in Brooklyn to revitalize underserved communities by first combating youth idleness and gang violence. In 2020, her project was accepted into the Social Impact Entrepreneurship Fellowship at The New School. In 2022 her project initiative was featured on the 100th edition cover page of the longest-running newspaper Canarsie Courier and she was awarded both The New School’s Media Management Outstanding Capstone Award and Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice Safe in the City Grant, used to fund the launch. Her favorite movie is Titanic and her go-to movie theater snack are Twizzlers.
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