Meet Our Team
Our research team consists of experienced educators and filmmakers who have dedicated their careers to integrating innovative teaching strategies in language education. We hope that through the Reel Voices project, both students and teachers can come together to create a community that values creativity, collaboration, and the power of filmmaking.
I am a lecturer and researcher at Nagoya City University and with my passion and dedication for the Arts, I have been incorporating filmmaking activities into my classroom for over 15 years.
I believe that the process of creating films is a fun and meaningful way for students to express themselves and use their language skills. I am dedicated to helping my students find their own voices, and love to see their ideas come to life on the big screen.
Kinsella Valies is an assistant professor at Jissen Women’s University and an adjunct professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan. She holds a Masters in Applied Linguistics from the University of Limerick, and a Bachelors in Cinema and Photography from Ithaca College. She has been a cinephile from a very early age meaning almost any conversation is embellished with film quotes or references.
As a filmmaker she shares her love of filmmaking and visual expression with her students through the various courses she teaches. On her continuing journey as a multi-lingual language learner, she has come to see film as an excellent tool to help learners practice languages.
Rhea Metituk
Myongji University
Seoul, South Korea
Rhea Metituk’s academic background is in English Language Education with a focus on Digital Media and she has been working as an ELT educator in South Korea since 2002. She has taught creative film projects in communications classes and has enjoys guiding students through projects enhancing linguistics and creativity. She is currently president of the KOTESOL Seoul Chapter and the KOTESOL 2025 International Conference themed “Embracing Humanity in the Age of AI: Enhanced ELT through Emotional Intelligence, Creativity, and Innovation” which will include an English language creative film contest. She works at Myongji University in Seoul, which has a perennial English FilmMaking Competition, and she conducts cultural exchange projects with her students in Korea and university students in Japan.
Emma Ina
Nagoya City University
Nagoya, Japan
I'm a Nagoya City University student and a research assistant in this project. My major is Information and Media Design, and I'm passionate about learning it from artistic and also engineering perspectives.
The reason why I am participating in this project is because I've been interested in communicating people with using another language. I look forward to seeing the filmmaking process I have experienced as a student from the management side, and I look forward to seeing and helping with this project from a student perspective!
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