The 36-year-old Valley student is turning personal experience into powerful narratives as she returned to college to create films. By: Rosemary Villalonga, News Editor After becoming a mother, Hila Cage Coppola found empowerment through filmmaking at Valley College where she strives to make her audience feel the same. At 36 years old, she returned to college to pursue something she never had, filmmaking. Nearly two decades earlier, she graduated and received an MBA from NYU