Dehanza Rogers is a Panamanian-American filmmaker, of both narratives and documentaries. She completed her B.A. in Anthropology with an interest in refugee youth culture, youth media and folklore. She is currently an MFA Directing and MFA Cinematography Candidate at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television and a receipt of the Graduate Opportunity Fellowship. She was recently awarded the 2013 Director’s Guild of America Student Filmmaker Award for her most recent work Sweet, Sweet Country. The film world premiered at the 2013 Pan African Film Festival. It won the Audience Award Winner at the 2013 Atlanta Film Festival, as well as Honorable Mention at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Her films explore the Diaspora, self-defined and transnational identities, with a keen interest in exploring the liminal state of statehood and nationality. What does it mean to be American or other than American or collectively Other-American?