Moving Image Arts - People
Joelle Collier
Professor of Moving Image Arts
B.F.A., M.A., Ohio University; Ph.D., University of Oregon
Joelle Collier joined CSF in 1991 and prior to that worked as a theater director and at several universities in the United States and Europe.
Her research interests include Asian cinema and she has served as a guest lecturer at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Deborah Fort
Professor of Moving Image Arts
B.S., University of Iowa; M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute
Deborah Fort is an award-winning documentary filmmaker.
Her documentary, The Great Divide, is used in colleges and universities nationwide in political science and law programs.
Brent Kliewer
Lecturer and Director of Film Programming, The Screen
Brent Kliewer is an internationally known film curator and serves as The Screen's director of film programming. Kliewer spent ten years building the film program at the Center for Contemporary Arts.
Kliewer founded Santa Fe's Jean Cocteau Theater, and is the film and book critic for The Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper.
T.J. Nabors
Rudd Foundation Endowed Chair
TJ Nabors holds the Rudd Endowed Chair in Animation. She comes to CSF from DreamWorks Animation, where she was senior animator in surfacing, working in visual development and production of various projects including the Shrek productions.
Nabors creates work in a variety of media, has written for publication on subjects of traditional and digital art; her work has been featured in British Vogue, Newtek Pro, and IDN-International Design Magazine, as well as the book The Art of Shrek.
After partnering in award-winning interactive studio Animism, LLC, Nabors served as technical director, then art director at Vinton (now LAIKA) Studios.
Nabors' personal interactive work has won a number of awards including the Outstanding Achievement Award at South X Southwest Film and Multimedia Festival. Honors awarded to projects to which Nabors has contributed include Emmy, Clio, and Annie awards, as well as Oscar nomination.
Nicole Panter
Assistant Professor of Moving Image Arts
B.A. University of California-Los Angeles
Nicole Panter is a script editor, fiction writer, film and culture critic.
In the late '70s she managed the notorious punk rock band The Germs. She was a writer and actor on Pee Wee's Playhouse, which ran onstage for 2 years in
Hollywood before being filmed for HBO.
Panter also created and starred in London Channel 4's Dream Date. She is the author of Mr. Right On & Other Stories and editor of the anthology Unnatural Disasters: Recent Writings from the Golden State. Nicole has taught at Cal Arts since 1995. She was also a Senior Lecturer at The American Film Institute for a number of years.
Hank Rogerson
Assistant Professor of Moving Image Arts
B.A., Dartmouth College
Hank Rogerson is a director, writer and actor who works both in fiction and non-fiction film. His film Shakespeare Behind Bars had its world premiere in the Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, its international premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and won 10 awards on the festival circuit.
Hank also co-produced, directed and edited Homeland, an award winning documentary, as well as Circle of Stories, a multi-media project at pbs.org. He is a two-time Sundance Institute Fellow, and has taught film production at University of Southern California. As an actor, Hank has done film, television and theater in Los Angeles, and he performs improv.
David Stout
Associate Professor of Moving Image Arts
B.F.A., University of Oregon; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts; Graduate Study: Oregon State University
David Stout is a video director, sound artist, animator and laptop performer. His award-winning new media work has been shown throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. Stout directs the MOV-iN gallery and CSF's bi-annual interdisciplinary project, "Installation, Performance & Interactivity."
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Jonathan Wacks
Professor and Chair of Moving Image Arts Director, Garson Studios
B.A., University of Essex; M.F.A., University of California-Los Angeles
Jonathan Wacks has directed a number of films, including Powwow Highway, winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Filmmaker's Trophy and also nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards.
Wacks' first film, Crossroads/South Africa, won an Academy Award in the documentary category (student). He produced Repo Man, starring Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton, and directed Mystery Date (Ethan Hawke and Terri Polo), Ed and His Dead Mother (Steve Buscemi and Ned Beatty), and an array of television shows including 21 Jump Street with Johnny Depp, Sirens and Going to Extremes.
Wacks also served as VP of Production at the Samuel Goldwyn Company. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America.
Brad Wolfley
Assistant Professor of Moving Image Arts
B.A., University of New Mexico; M.A., M.F.A., Rutgers University
Brad Wolfley has worked as a senior editor, writer, director, videographer and production technician.
In addition, he has produced and directed numerous television commercials, films, music videos and industrial videos.
Gene Youngblood
Professor Emeritus of Moving Image Arts
Gene Youngblood has taught film theory and electronic media arts for over 30 years at UCLA, California Institute of the Arts and College of Santa Fe.
He is the author of Expanded Cinema, the first book about video as an art medium, which inspired a generation of video artists. He is the recipient of several grants from such organizations as the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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