Stephanie Yuhas

Stephanie will organize several live screenings and Q&A sessions around her short film Vessel. The short stars an entirely female cast and surrounds Molly, a woman haunted by dreams, who is convinced that something is wrong with her pregnancy. Inspired by the research of Temple University professor Dr. David M. Jacobs, who discovered a series of women who all became pregnant after having terrible abduction dreams, Stephanie will use the film as a tool to inspire discussions about the shame and isolation that comes from rape, miscarriage, and abortion; build community with other local female science fiction lovers; and combat misogyny in popular sci-fi culture. 

American Goulash is an online blog featuring stories, videos and animations about Stephanie's colorful Transylvanian family. She will expand the series by producing four videos per year and forty-eight written stories. Her mission is to preserve stories, tales and idiosyncrasies from her own past and to encourage others to speak to their elders and learn from their family histories. Stephanie hopes to reach people all over the world to show that, despite cultural differences, all people have something in common—the love of family.