Directing

• • Reb Braddock

    

    Reb Braddock is a writer and director of feature films who serves as the Associate Dean for The Film School. He is one of the original architects of the MFA program who has shepherded its growth and success since its first year in 1989.

  • Chip Chalmers

    

    Chip Chalmers is a veteran director of film, television, and theatre with more than 100 credits including Star Trek: The Next Generation, Miami Vice, Melrose Place, and Beverly Hills, 90210.

  • Leslie France

    

    A professional actor and a highly regarded acting teacher, France has worked in film, television, and theater for more than fifteen years. She starred in the recent Echelon Pictures theatrical release Confession of a Florist where her "soulful performance" (Variety) garnered rave reviews.

  • Victor Nunez

    Victor Nunez is an esteemed independent filmmaker who creates high-quality, memorable portraits of life about characters who struggle with personal adversity. Nunez is best known for writing and directing Ulee's Gold, as well as the acclaimed films Gal Young 'un, A Flash of Green, and Ruby in Paradise, a film that garnered a Grand Prize win at the Sundance Film Festival.

Writing

• • Timothy Long

    

    Timothy Long has more than a decade of Hollywood screenwriting experience. He has written fourteen screenplays, two of which were produced and another two optioned. As a writer, he has dealt with TriStar, Universal and Castle Rock, to name a few.

  • Victoria Meyer

    

    Vicky Meyer is a screenwriter and highly regarded script consultant who teaches courses in screenwriting. She has provided story and screenwriting consultation on a non-disclosure basis with some of Hollywood’s most prominent directors.

Producing

• • Paul Cohen

    

    Illustrating the entrepreneurial, independent cinema spirit for over two decades, Paul Cohen created a number of successful independent distribution and production companies including Analysis Films, Masada Production, Moonbeam Productions, and Aries Films. He has been responsible for acquiring and marketing a wide range of successful films often recognized as cinematic gems and contemporary classics. These include Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant, starring Harvey Keitel, Mephisto, the 1981 Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Language Film, My Brilliant Career directed by first-timer Gillian Armstrong and starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill, The Chosen starring Maximilian Schell, and Luchino Visconti's The Innocent.

  • Jed Kaleko

    

    Jed Kaleko is a veteran of more than 13 years of stage design and set construction.

  • Valerie Scoon

    

    Valerie Scoon is a producer and creative executive with extensive industry experience who most recently served as the Director of Development for Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Films.

Cinematography

• • Rexford Metz, ASC

    

    Rexford Metz is a cinematographer with more than 60 feature film and television credits including 102 Dalmatians, U-571, Ghostbusters 2, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Charlie, and The Defiant Ones. He is a member of the America Society of Cinematographers, The Directors Guild of America, and has served as a technical advisor for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

  • Keith Slade

    

    Keith supervises the day-to-day set operations at the Film School and manages the school's film equipment room. He also teaches classes in Camera and Light Mechanics as a Visiting Assistant in Film and runs workshops in equipment use in order to teach the safe and proper operation of all film production related equipment.

Visual Effects

• • Stuart Robertson

    

    Stuart Robertson is an Academy Award winning visual effects artist who has created some of the most memorable visual sequences in American cinema including his work on the film What Dreams May Come for which he earned an Oscar.

Editing

• • Bill Carruth

    

    William (Bill) C. Carruth is a third generation film editor with over 40 years experience in the film industry. His credits as Film Editor include Nickelodeon, Saint Jack, FM, Caddyshack, Night Games, What Comes Around, Island of Dr. Moreau, They All Laughed and many others. In the past 10 years Bill has worked as a Sound Supervisor editing dialogue, ADR and effects for feature films such as The Fan, Maverick, Executive Decision, U.S. Marshals, Assassins, Lethal Weapon 4, and Conspiracy Theory.

  • Alessandro Soares

    

    As Post-Production Specialist, Alessandro assists the senior engineer and faculty in tasks associated with film, audio, video, and post-production equipment for teaching and filmmaking.

Sound

• • Chuck Allen

    

    As a faculty member in sound design, Chuck also serves as the Head of Post-Production and as Operations Engineer for the Film School.

  • Richard Portman

    

    Distinguished Filmmaker in Residence Richard Portman has served as sound mixer on more than 200 feature films. He has eleven Academy Award nominations for sound work and won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film The Deer Hunter and a British Academy Award for Best Sound on Robert Altman's Nashville.

History and Theory

• • Dr. Valliere Richard Auzenne

    

    Dr. Richard's doctorate in Communication is from the Florida State University and her M.A. in Art is from California State University, Los Angeles. The focus of her teaching is screenwriting, film history, professional development, and documentary filmmaking with research interests in film history, computer animation and African American art.

  • Dr. Frank P. Tomasulo

    

    Dr. Frank P. Tomasulo is Professor and Head of Film Studies at The Film School. He received his M.A. in Cinema Studies at New York University and his Ph.D. in Film and Television from UCLA. He has taught a variety of film history, theory, production, and screenwriting classes, and has written, produced, and directed numerous films, TV shows, videos, and theatrical productions.