Faculty Spotlight
Department Chairs
Faculty
Steven Apter
Instructional Areas
Television - Production and Editing, Aesthetics and Storytelling. Cinema - Production and Editing
Dale Baker
Instructional Areas
Location Sound Recording, Sound Design, & Video Production
Martin Bernstein
Instructional Areas
Cinema Editing using Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer, with related applications. History and practice in cinema studies, especially episodic television concentrating on editorial motifs used to build story and character arcs.
Jason Betke
Instructional Areas
Editing, Directing, Screenwriting, Finishing, Color Correction, Sound Design, Cinematography, Documentary Production, Visual Effects
Michael Caplan
Instructional Areas
Documentary, creative producing, foundation, experimental film, fiction and non-fiction storytelling.
Ron Falzone
Instructional Areas
Cinema Studies, Romantic Comedy, Romantic Melodrama, Films of the 1940s and 1950s, Douglas Sirk, Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Michael Powell, Otto Preminger, Ernst Lubitsch
Jeffrey Hadick
Ted Hardin
Instructional Areas
Collaboration, experimentatlon, experimental, dance film, documentary, interdisciplinary
Killian Heilsberg
Instructional Areas
Directing, Screenwriting, Cinematic Aesthetics, Ethics, Film Theory, Visual Communication, World Building, Transmedia, Stop Motion Animation production, Animation history, Animation Aesthetics
Missy Hernandez
Instructional Areas
Television Writing, Screenwriting, Creative Producing
Adam Jones
Instructional Areas
I have written and taught many capstone level courses within the cinematography curriculum of Cinema and Television Arts. I am also the current coordinator of the Cinematography curriculum.
Kerry Kelekovich
Instructional Areas
Music Publishing & Supervision, Sound Design, Audio Mixing & Editing, ADR & Foley Recording, Voice-over Production
Susan Kerns
Instructional Areas
Cinema Studies, Producing, Directing, Screenwriting
Deana Kobrynski
Instructional Areas
Foundations, Film History, Screenwriting
Kera MacKenzie
Instructional Areas
Cinema and Television Production, Editing and Post-Production
Andrew Mausert-Mooney
Richard Petrizzi
Instructional Areas
Self-Management & Freelancing, Internship, Business Studies, Speech, Career Strategies
Carolina Posse
Instructional Areas
Creative producing; story development; motion picture production; new media; marketing; distribution; digital storytelling; International Co-productions; Latin American Cinema; creative collaborations across platforms; business practices; non-profit management
Mat Rappaport
Instructional Areas
motion graphics, design, art, projection, drones, new media, graduate education
Grant Robbin
Instructional Areas
Adjunct Faculty, CTVA, Screenwriting, at Columbia. Previously taught in Art/Design, Fiction Writing, Marketing, Freshman Forum Departments as well as the High School Institute and Adult Education at Columbia.
Benjamin Rogerson
Instructional Areas
Digital Imaging Technician - DIT Carts, Advanced Workflow, DaVinci Resolve Editing 1 Studio - Adobe Premiere Editing 2 Studio - Avid Media Composer
Sharon Ross
Instructional Areas
Cinema and Television Arts, Television and Media Studies
Dan Rybicky
Instructional Areas
Cinema and Television Arts classes in Documentary, Critical Studies, Screenwriting, and Producing.
Mehrnaz Saeedvafa
Instructional Areas
Film Studies in the areas of international cinema, Iranian cinema, Middle Eastern Cinema, Women Cinema, Issues of Race, Gender and Identity in Cinema, History and Aesthetics of Documentary forms, Cinema and Poetry, and Experimental Cinema. Film production in the areas of Documentary Filmmaking, Cinematic Essay, Experimental Film production.
Zoran Samardzija
Instructional Areas
Film History, Film Theory and Criticism, and Aesthetics.
Michael Samson
Instructional Areas
Production, Assistant Directing (ADs), Producing, Writing for Television
Francine Sanders
Instructional Areas
Screenwriting, Foundations, Cinema Studies
Risé Sanders-Weir
Instructional Areas
Documentary, Cinema History, Cinema Appreciation, Feature Writing, Media Law, TV Program Development, Career Management, Producing
Jason Schallack
Instructional Areas
Cinematography Production Studies, Independent Cinema Production
Molly Schneider
Instructional Areas
Television History, Television Theory & Analysis, Media and Popular Culture
Eric Scholl
Instructional Areas
Documentary, Video production, Editing, Post production, Television analysis, Script analysis, Dramatic directing, Comedy directing
Bruce Sheridan
Instructional Areas
Directing, screenwriting, producing, documentary
Youngbin Song
Instructional Areas
Cinema and Television Production, Cinema Analysis and Criticism
Jeffrey Spitz
Instructional Areas
Documentary; Chicago Film History; Media & Social Justice; experiential and service learning; The Doc Unit; Screenwriting-Adaptation; Producing the documentary; Production: Fact & Fiction; Introduction to documentary; History of documentary; Careers in documentary; culture, race and media; indigenous films; sports documentaries; project-based learning with documentary tools and storytelling techniques.
Josef Steiff
Instructional Areas
Screenwriting, Cinema Directing, Creative Producing, World Cinema, Cinema Studies, Transmedia, Television Studies, Film Production, Video Production
Wen-Hwa Ts'ao
Instructional Areas
Cinema and Television Arts - Cinema Directing, Moving Image Production, Producing, Image Design, Ideation and Theme, Script Analysis, Intimacy Coordination
Clinton Vaupel
Instructional Areas
Production, cinematography, and lighting.
Thelma Vickroy
Instructional Areas
Documentary production, television production, 6-12 grade education
Jeffery Wieck
Instructional Areas
Over the years I've taught pre-production, lighting for television, Film History, Aesthetics of television, and video production. My most rewarding teaching experiences have come from teaching multicamera studio production at Columbia College. It gives me an opportunity to take students with little or no television experience and see them grow to the point where they can walk into a studio and be comfortable with any crew position or piece of equipment.
Bonita Winer
Instructional Areas
Cinematic and episodic TV editing Writing for drama
Sharon Zurek
Instructional Areas
Post-Production, Editing, Post Production Supervision, Producing, Directing, Career Planning, Documentary.