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Doreen Bartoni
dbartoni@colum.edu
M.A., Northwestern University. Taught directing, film theory and
film production at Northwestern University and has lectured on mainstream
cinema and social commentary. Her films have been screened at many festivals
worldwide. Currently Professor Bartoni is Dean of the School of Media
Arts.
Robert Buchar
rbuchar@colum.edu
M.F.A., Film Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Czechoslovakia. Shot
more than 20 films and worked extensively in motion pictures before
defecting to the U.S. in 1980. Has since photographed several films
and documentaries in the U.S. and Europe. Mr. Buchar is the director
of the Cinematography Concentration.
Cari Callis
ccallis@colum.edu
B.A., Columbia College, M.A., University of Illinois at Chicago.
Screenwriter, poet, novelist and editor for Another Chicago Magazine
(ACM), an NEA funded literary magazine. Has worked on various film productions
as a crew member and as a creative consultant. Published in Columbia
Poetry Review, Chicago Arts and Communication, Wire
and 58.
Michael Caplan
mpcaplan@colum.edu
M.F.A., Northwestern University. Independent filmmaker, producer and
director. He has produced three independent feature films, which have
been distributed internationally and directed several award-winning
dramatic shorts. Has taught production at Northwestern University and
lectured on story-telling at the University of Chicago.
Judd Chesler
jchesler@colum.edu
Ph.D., Northwestern University. Taught Cinema Studies at Purdue
University and later worked in the Chicago film industry as a writer-producer.
Currently is the Assistant Chair for the Graduate
Program at Columbia and produces video and multimedia projects.
Ric Coken
rcoken@colum.edu
Emmy award-winner specializing in soundtrack design for film
and video, focusing on feature film and television productions. He has
also served as chairman of CAVEAT (Chicago Audio, Video Engineers Technicians).
Under his supervision, the organization created nationally accepted
standards of audio for the visual medium. A former board member of SMPTE
(Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers), he is active in
NAB, IATSE, AES, SMPTE, NARAS, NATAS, ITVA and IFP. With 34 years of
experience contributing to over 150 feature films, 1,000 television
shows and owning and operating an eleven room studio complex.
Jerry Courtland
jcourtland@colum.edu
Developed, directed and produced numerous films for Disney Productions
including such classics as Escape to Witch Mountain and Pete’s
Dragon. Directed over 200 films and leading television series. Has
taught directing, producing and acting classes at UCLA, Northwestern
University and Montana State University.
Dan Dinello
ddinello@colum.edu
M.F.A., University of Wisconsin; award-winning independent filmmaker
(Shock Asylum, Wheels of Fury, Rock Lobster); television director (Comedy
Central's Strangers with Candy); webmaster (Shockproductions.com);
and pop culture/new media journalist for The Chicago Tribune and Salon.com.
He is currently coordinator of the Alternative
Forms and Advanced Production classes as well as content provider
for the film/video department website (filmatcolumbia)
Ron Falzone rfalzone@colum.edu
BA, Columbia College Chicago; MFA, Northwestern University. Writer and
director in theatre and film, he has been responsible for over 70 mainstage
theatre productions from Boston to New York to Chicago. A frequent contributor
on film for WBEZ Radio's "Odyssey" and the co-host of "Talk Cinema"
screening series, he is a four-time Artist in Residence at The Ragdale
Foundation and a Year 2000 recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Artist
Fellowship in Screenwriting.
Ron Fleischer
rfleischer@colum.edu
BA, Columbia College Chicago; He
runs his own company RonToon, Inc.
after working in the animation industry for almost 20 years. His last
position was as a technical director at StarToons in Homewood where
he directed several episodes of Taz-Mania, Pinky and the Brain,
and Animaniacs (which won the Daytime Emmy Award 1995-1996).
. He also recently worked in Los Angeles as Technical Director on the
Powerpuff Girls feature film and as a Timing Director
on Liberty Kids, a daily show on PBS which premiered on Labor
Day, 2002. Ron teaches History of Animation, Work-In -Progress, Digital
Animation Techniques and Animation Production Studio. .
Chap Freeman
cfreeman@colum.edu
M.F.A., Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Has directed over 20 films in dramatic,
educational and industrial formats. Documentary scripts on social ecology,
children’s prisons, and the "new" assembly line worker. Dramatic
features on transcendental science fiction and the mid-life crisis in
gay men. Research on Westerns, film noir, and the French New
Wave. Taught the Visions Project, 1994-98, a documentary training
program for European students sponsored by Groupement Éuropeén
des Écoles de Cinéma et de Télévision.
Mr. Freeman coordinates the Directing
Concentration.
Paula Froehle
pfroehle@colum.edu
An independent filmmaker working in Chicago for the past ten years.
Her films have been funded by regional and national arts organizations,
and screened and won awards internationally. Has shot and co-directed
over twenty music videos for Atavistic Chicago, the company she co-owns.
Currently working on her eighth film, funded by the Beck Institute for
the Arts in Chicago. She is the Coordinator of the Audio
Concentration.
Karla Rae Fuller
kfuller@colum.edu
Ph.D., Northwestern University, M.F.A., Columbia University. Taught
history and screenwriting at Northwestern University, Dominican University
and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Worked as a story editor
for Vestron, Inc. Has lectured on African-American, Asian and gender
representation in Hollywood films. Research interests include ethnic
representation in Hollywood films, film acting/performance, and Japanese
cinema. Dr. Fuller coordinates the Critical
Studies Concentration.
C.A. (Crystal)
Griffith cgriffith@colum.edu
B.A.., Stanford University; M.F.A., University of California --
Santa Barbara. A writer and award winning independent filmmaker (Border.Line
. . . Family Pictures), Griffith's films have screened at
numerous film festivals, including the premieres of her feature film
Del Otro Lado (The Other Side) at the San Francisco International
Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and OUTFEST 99. An author of critical
essays and short fiction, she has also been a finalist for the Sundance
Institute's Writers and Filmmakers Labs. As one of the first Black female
professional camera assistants and cnematographers in the film industry,
her credits include Juice, music videos from Public Enemy to
the Rolling Stones and numerous award-winning PBS and BBC documentaries
including A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde
and Eyes on the Prize II.
Ted Hardin thardin@colum.edu
M.F.A., Ohio State University. Worked with a variety of artists at the
Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio and the Banff Centre for the Arts
in Canada as director of photography, editor, lighting director, and
assistant director. Has collaborated with the alternative media collective
Paper Tiger Television in New York, and researched and shot projects
for German Television on "Dark Near-Death Experiences." Heavily
influenced by his studies of German Expressionism, his own work has
shown at the American Film Institute and several art centers in the
U.S. and Canada.
Peter Hartel
phartel@colum.edu
B.A., Columbia College. A post-production producer and editor specializes
in visual effects, animation, and computer generated imaging projects
for television, commercials, corporate, public relations and multi-media
distribution. Experienced as an optical camera operator and as a computerized
motion control camera operator, as well as supervising and producing
high-end post-production editorial and compositing, Professor Hartel
has experienced on the Media 100 non-linear editor, and has studied
the Flint and Flame compositing systems.
Paul Hettel
phettel@colum.edu
Filmmaker, screenwriter and Professor Film and Video at Columbia
since 1981. Writer and director of numerous short films and two feature
films: Terminal Moraine -- filmmed on location in Italy and his
most recent Sound of Yellow filmed in Lodz, Poland. His areas
of specialization are: Production, Editing, Screenwriting and Italian
Cinema. He is currently Program Director of the Editing
Concentration.
T.W. Li
tli@colum.edu
Cinematographer for 12 feature films and over 75 commercials, he
has twice won Hatch Awards from the Boston Advertising Club. He also
the received a Telly Award and a twice won New England Regional Film/Video
Fellowships. He is a member of the International Cinematographer's Guild.
His articles on film lighting have appeared in ICG magazine.
Christopher
Peppy cpeppy@colum.edu
B.A. Columbia College. Writer, Director or Producer on over 50 television
commercials, industrial videos, and documentaries. Awards include Telly's,
and Addy's for both commercial work and industrials
Russell Porter
rporter@colum.edu
Documentary writer, director and producer with over 100 screen credits
including several award winners. Film teacher at the Australian Film,
Television and Radio School, 1994-2000; founder/coordinator of the Melbourne
Documentary Group; extensive teaching/seminar experience in Latin America
(CCC Mexico City, EICTV Cuba, USP Brazil, UBA Argentina, etc).
Michael Rabiger
mrabiger@aol.com
Author, educator and filmmaker, he has directed and produced over
20 BBC documentaries, edited numerous television documentaries and was
assistant editor for over a dozen features and Pinewood and Shepperton
Studios, England. Writer of many reviews, essays and articles on film
and literature, he has taught documentary filmmaking in several countries
abroad. His Directing the Documentary and Directing: Film
Techniques and Aesthetics are used by schools and professional filmmakers
worldwide. Developing Story Ideas is his latest book. He is currently
on sabbatical.
Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa
msaeedvafa@colum.edu
M.F.A., University of Illinois at Chicago. Taught filmmaking at the
School of Television & Cinema in Tehran, produced and edited many
independent, documentary and industrial films in Tehran, London and
Chicago. Her film Ruins Within has screened at festivals and
her documentary A Tajik Woman won first prize for non-fiction
at the 11th Sony/AFI video competition, and jury grand prize
at the 20th Annual Festival of Illinois Film & Video
Artists in 1995. Artistic director for the Iranian Film Festival in
Chicago since 1989.
Bruce Sheridan
bsheridan@colum.edu
B.A. and B.A. (Honors), University of Auckland, New Zealand. 18 years
as Director, Producer, and Writer of drama, documentary, music and commercial
projects for cinema and television. Co-Director of The Morrison Grieve
Industry Talent Development Initiative for the New Zealand Film Commission
and Consultant Producer at South Pacific Pictures. 1999 recipient of
New Zealand's Best Drama Award for the tele-feature Lawless. Formerly
Head of Film & TV at UNITEC Institute of Technology. He is Chair of
the Film & Video Department.
Don Smith
dsmith@colum.edu
M.F.A., Columbia College. Coordinator; Producing
concentration. Co-founder and coordinator of Semester
in LA. Independent filmmaker, producer and editor.
He is currently producing the international co-production, feature film
Threads which was written and directed by Columbia alumnus Hakim
Belabbes. He also is the postproduction supervisor for Peter Hunt Thompson's
epic documentary, Moviemento. He was the Director of Photography
for Birgit Rathsmann's documentary Grit and Polish which examines
the Hong Kong film industry. He is the photographer for Soups of
France, Chronicle Books, 2002.
Jeff Spitz jspitz@colum.edu
Jeff Spitz is the
Director and Co-Producer of the official Sundance Film Festival 2000
selection
The Return of Navajo Boy, a multiple award winning film that reunited
a Navajo family, triggered a federal investigation into uranium houses
on the Navajo Reservation and resulted in a $100,000 payment from the
US Dept. of Justice to a former uranium miner featured in the film.
Spitz has served
in the hybrid capacity of writer-director-producer for several independent
documentaries which have aired on PBS and cable, including the national
primetime special, "From the Bottom Up." Spitz's credits include
"America's Libraries Change Lives," narrated by Whoopi Goldberg
and "The Roosevelt Experiment: an integrated college in a segregated
city" - an Emmy Award-winning documentary that aired on ABC-TV.
A graduate of UCLA
Spitz earned his MA in English Language and Literature from the University
of Chicago.
Josef Steiff
jsteiff@colum.edu
M.F.A., Ohio University. Taught history and film production at Ohio
University and taught video at the University of Chicago Laboratory
Schools. As a former licensed social worker who has presented regionally
and ntionally on psychological issues such as adolescent depression
and suicide, sexual oreintation and HIV/AIDS, creates work reflecting
the ways in which people struggle to make sense out of random, impersonal
events. Has worked extensively in film and video production as a producer
for independent features, line-producer for Korean television and crew
on sevewral short and feature-length documentaries, including an Academy
Award nominee. He has also produced and directed sound installations
and performance art, as well as several award-winning narrative, documentary
and experimental films. He is currently Director of the Screenwriting
Concentration.
Chris Swider
cswider@pcolum.edu
B.A., Columbia College, M.F.A., Polish National Film School, Lodz
(P.W.S.FiTV.). Worked extensively in production on documentaries, commercials
and industrial films.
Michael Taav
mtaav@colum.edu
Ph.D., M.Phil., CUNY Graduate Center, M.F.A., UC DAVIS. Directing credits:
The Paint Job, produced by Columbia-Tri-Star (awarded the Silver Prize,
Feature Competition, Houston Film Festival) and Hoggs' Heaven (awarded
a Chanticleer/Showtime Discovery Grant). Produced screenplays include,
The Paint Job, Hoggs' Heaven, A.K., Crazy Horse, Framed (produced by
HBO Features), Tom Goes to the Bar (awarded the Golden Bear, Berlin
Film Festival), and The Tales From The Crypt Episode, The Switch. Awarded
Writing Fellowships by the McDowell, Yaddo, Millay, and Edward Albee
Foundations. Author of A Body Acrossthe Map: The Father-Son Plays of
Sam Shepard. Member of Writers' Guild East and the Pen Society of Writers.
Wenhwa Ts'ao
wtsao@colum.edu
M.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work ranges from short
experimental films to documentaries and narrative features. Wenhwa exhibits
her work extensively in Film Festivals. Past festival credits include
The Mill Valley Film Festival, The San Francisco Asian American Film
Festival and Women in the Director's Chair. She has received many awards,
grants and fellowships from regional and national arts organizations
as a creative artist/filmmaker. Currently Professor Ts'ao coordinates
Production I (undergrad)
Barry Young
byoung@colum.edu
M.F.A., Northwestern University. Animated many commercials and educational
films, one of which has been screened at the Smithsonian Institution.
Has lectured on western animation at the Beijing Film Academy.
Artists-in-Residence
Ninoos Bethishou
nbethishou@colum.edu
Seventeen years experience in producing, directing and cinematography.
Has extensive experience working on features, educational and corporate
films, as well as documentaries and television spots.
Tom Fraterrigo
tfraterrigo@colum.edu
M.F.A., Columbia College. Writer and director who has worked on both
film and stage productions. Currently in post production on a short
film and collaborating on two feature screenplays.
Brigid Maher
bmaher@colum.edu
Co-founder and president of Tiny Leaps Productions -- a non profit arts
organization, she has directed film and theater productions in the U.S.,
the West Bank and Oman. Recently, she completed the short satirical
comedy, Save the Afghan Children, which criticizes Bush's foriegn
policy. She wrote, directed and produced the feature film Adrift
in the Heartland -- shot in Palestine and Chicago. Her short films
have been featured on PBS (Image Union) and the National Poetry Video
Festival while winning recognition and funding from the Anti-Defamation
League, City of chicago, Marshall Center for the Arts and the Washington
Commission for the Humanities.
Susan Mroz smroz@colum.edu
M.F.A., Columbia College. An award-winning filmmaker and former Program
Director of the Chicago International Film Festival, she has appeared
in theater productions with Rococo Rodeo in Chicago and at Quincy University.
Professor Mroz teaches in the Directing, Screenwriting, Aesthetics and
Production areas, and recently directed the staged reading of Ron Falzone's
feature script, Rosie and the Fine Art of Politics.
Sharon Zurek
szurek@colum.edu
BA, Columbia College. During her 25 years experience producing, directing
and editing, she has won funding and a variety of awards for her independent
and professional work. As the owner of Black
Cat Productions in Chicago, she recently produced and directed Kevin's
Room a one-hour dramatic film that premiered on UPN-TV. She was also
the editor on several independent feature films, including Stray Dogs,
Constructing Mulligan's Stew, The Chameleon and The Orphan Saint.
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