Darlington School: Private Boarding School in Georgia Senior Ventures Spotlight: William Feng
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Senior Ventures Spotlight: William Feng

William Feng | October 28, 2021 | 413 views

My name is William Feng. In my Senior Ventures project, I want to build on my interest in films and history. 

As a film fanatic, I have always been interested in watching films, ranging from historical films/documentaries to comedies, to adventure films. While watching films with a critical history lens. I have noticed and - intrigued by - the constantly changing focus of films over the last few decades, for instance, shifting from Cold War tension in James Bond to Middle East Conflicts in Iron Man.

My passion in viewing history with a historical perspective started when as a kid, I was immersed in historical films and documentaries. In high school, courses such as AP World History and AP US History have given me the chance to dissect competing versions of the past and to draw my own conclusions. Furthermore, the enriching courses that I took in past semesters and summers have pushed my interests in history and its interdisciplinary features with sociology and cultural studies to the pinnacle. 

In my Senior Ventures project, I want to mingle my passion for history and film. Building on my previous experience in researching, I want to investigate how international politics, global tensions, and technological inventions have played out in films over the last 50 years. My goal is to dissect some connections between contemporary events and film productions. Furthermore, I aspire to make people more aware of the fact that histories are relevant to our daily lives, show how films are always tightly related to our contemporary topics and events, and attract more people to be history and film fanatics. 

Senior Ventures is a year-long academic program built on a framework of leadership, innovation and community engagement. Through a proven self-guided exploratory process, seniors whose proposals are selected for this program work independently to develop a project that’s interdisciplinary in scope and is connective, performance-based, investigative, or entrepreneurial. Click here to learn more.