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Many of our students have gone on to careers as directors,
writers, and cinematographers in the film and television
industry; others are pursuing academic careers teaching
film. If you are a Film Studies alumni and we've lost track of you, please drop the Film Studies Director an email about what you're doing!
Clifton Armstrong
Clifton Armstong graduated with a BA in Film Studies in 2006 and is now an assistant editor at Trailblazer Studios working under Serious Robots. He's an assistant editor on "Jon & Kate Plus 8," which is the number one show on TLC and in the top 20 on cable. He also helped film "The Lost Podcast with Jay and Jack", which was chosen as one of the Best New Top 100 iTunes podcasts for 2006, beating out 100,000 podcasts.
John Baker
John Baker is pursuing an MFA from the American Film Institute,
Los Angeles. In 2006, John won the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
screenwriting award for an original screenplay for the second
time--and he is the only AFI student to have done so!
Chad Beck
Chad Beck is a PhD candidate in Film Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington,
IN.
Sarah Krocker Bonilla
Sarah Krocker Bonilla received her MA in English/Film Studies in 2005 and is currently working on her PhD in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh under the guidance of Dr. Dorota Ostrowska and Dr. Jolyon Mitchell. Her research focuses on the identity of the nun as a reflection of feminist ideologies in the UK, France, Italy, and Spain. Outside of her work with her PhD, she runs the Edinburgh University Post-Graduate Film Group and participates in the peer reviewed Post-Graduate publication Forum. Her dedication to her website, the Picture Show Pundits, is steadfast and she strives to keep a continuous involvement with the thriving Edinburgh film community.
Jason Bryan
Jason Bryan completed his MA in English with a Film Studies Concentration in 2007. He received a scholarship to Cardozo law school in New York, where he is now a student. He is also shopping around the screenplay, "Different People," that he wrote at NCSU as his MA thesis.
Robert Burleson
Robert Burleson graduated from NCSU in 2005 and works as a camera
operator at WRAL in Raleigh.
Rob Caldwell
Rob Caldwell received his MA in English with a Film Studies Concentration in 2005 and is the Studio Manager for the Distance Learning
program at the NC School of Science and Math in Durham,
NC.
As part of his job he directs live videoconference sessions between the NC School of Science and Math and other schools, which enables a wider range of students to take advanced science and math courses.
Liesl Shaffer Clouse
Liesl Shaffer Clouse graduated with a BA in Film Studies in 2006. She has worked for several years as the technical coordinator for the Full Frame Documentary Festival in Durham. In the summer of 2007 she was the production coordinator for all of the Sundance Film Festival labs (Directors, Documentary Edit, Theatre, Composers, Documentary Composers). She also sings in a band in Raleigh.
Eric Collins
Eric T. Collins graduated with a Film Studies degree in 2003 and then procceded to obtain his A.S. in Film Production from
Full Sail in Winter Park, Florida. Since Full Sail, he's been
freelancing in Orlando on independent features, music videos, television and industrial shoots. A few of the companies he has worked for are TransContinantal, BET, The Lifetime Channel, Walt Disney World and Metris (an Italian television
production company). He also teaches at Full Sail in the Lighting for Film Labs.
David Cudar
David Cudar is a Film Instructor at St. Petersburg College.
Jason Curtis
Jason Curtis graduated with a Film Studies degree in 2007. He currently works as an independent social marketing consultant with filmmakers and film distributors in New York, NY. He has worked on numerous projects for HBO, THINKFilm and City Lights Media. In addition, Jason is a live event producer working with comedians from across the country including Louis CK, David Wain, Zach Galifinakis (a former member of the Pack) and many others.
Jenn Dorn
Film Studies grad (2003) Jenn Dorn
is working as Associate Producer in the Video and Creative department of Act Now (www.actnowproductions.com), whichwas just acquired by Saatchi & Saatchi to form Saatchi S (S for Sustainability). www.saatchis.com The company does outreach, consulting, and marketing to help the planet adopt sustainable behavior and habits in daily living choices. Some of her work can be found on Current TV. Jenn was also Associate Producer and Assistant Editor for the feature documentary, Girls Rock! (2008), which opens in almost thirty cities in March 2008 including showings at the Angelika Film Center in New York and the NuArt Theater in Los Angeles.
Nate Gelgud
Nate Gelgud manages a video store in New York and is
currently at work on and shopping several screenplays.
Robert Greene
Robert Greene completed an MFA at CCNY in 2002 and
is post-production supervisor at 4th Row Films in Manhattan.
He is currently working on the documentary Anytown USA,
about a mayoral race in Bogota, NJ.
Dante Harper
Dante Harper is a filmmaker living in Los Angeles, CA. Dante directed and shot The Delicate Art of the Rifle (1996) at NCSU. After earning his MFA from the
School of Visual Arts at UC San Diego in 2005, Dante was
invited to the prestigious Sundance Institute to work on
Dreamland, his screenplay on the life of Timothy
McVeigh. He has also worked as a Production Manager, Producer, Editor, and Writer.
Jonathan Hawkins
Jonathan Hawkins graduated in December 2007 with a double major in Film Studies and Business IT. After taking some time to travel around Europe he'll be returning to the Triangle to work
at Nortel Networks in RTP as part of their New Grad Leadership Program.
Neal Hutcheson
Neal Hutcheson is a documentary filmmaker. His films have been screened on UNC-TV and at the Asheville Art museum, among other venues. The Queen Family, a documentary about a Southern Appalachian family, was broadcast on UNC-TV in Spring 2006 and has been featured in special events at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts and the Appalachian Studies Conference in Dayton, Ohio. In 2005, Neal was a recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council grant and completed The Prince of Dark Corners, a film version of Gary Carden's play about folk hero Lewis Redmond, which aired on PBS. He also directed The Last One, a documentary on moonshiner Popcorn Sutton. Production work continues on a major documentary on rural fishing communities on the NC coastal islands.
Chris Hutton
Chris Hutton is
attending the screen and television writers' program at
top-rated University of Southern California. He has just been awarded the the Josh Schwartz Scholarship for original TV writing at USC. He was also recently invited (one of only three writers from USC) to an industry meeting with the president of Warner Bros TV.
Greg Johnson
Greg Johnson completed his MA in English with a concentration in
Film in May 2004. He is a member of the English Department
faculty at Wilson Technical Community College.
Katherine Justice
Katherine Justice graduated in 2007 with an English major and Film Studies minor. She's a film critic and writer for the Independent where she has been covering festivals, filmmakers in the Triangle, and major/independent releases.
Tim Kiernan
Tim Kiernan won the John Hope Franklin Fellowship awarded by Full Frame.
Tim is a filmmaker and graphic designer in Raleigh, NC.
Russ Mick
Russ Mick received his A.S. in Film/Video from FULL SAIL and works as a videographer at K.R. Deyo Video in Tallahassee, FL. The company specializes in freelance work for national companies like CBS, ESPN, and Fox.
Nicole Opyr
Since graduating from NCSU Nicole Opyr has been working in Los Angeles as an editor on a variety
of free-lance projects and with Gurney Production, including a "Behind the Music" video on Beyonce that aired in Fall 2006; a daily news
program that began on September 11, 2006; and promotional
videos for the TV Guide Channel.
She worked as an assistant editor on a documentary about Max Lesnik, The Man of Two Havanas, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and has since been in festivals all over the world and won first prize at the Havana Film Festival. She cut a series for National Geographic called "Odyssey: Driving Around the World," which has just been picked up for domestic distribution on Direct TV. She is currently cutting a show called "Raven-Symone Presents," and is assistant editing on one of the Discovery Channel "Survivorman" shows,"Surviving Alaska," which will air in fall 2008.
Tor Ramsey
After graduating from NCSU Tor Ramsey attended NYU film school, directing his first independent film, Urban Mythology, in 1997, followed by Children of the Living Dead (2001). In addition to his work as a filmmaker, Tor has worked as a screenwriter and a television director (Talk Soup and Boy Meets World).
Brian Santana
Brian Santana completed his MA in English with a concentration in
Film in 2005 and is pursing a Ph.D. in American Studies
at George Washington University.
Brian was awarded two fellowships at GWU: a Horton Fellowship
and a Smithsonian Institute fellowship.
Jeffrey Shroyer
Jeffrey Shroyer graduated in May 2007 with a Self-Design Interdisciplinary Studies BA and a minor in Film Studies. He is currently attending graduate school at Cal Arts.
Brandon Tweed
Brandon Tweed completed his BA in Film Studies in 2006 and is now working as a videographer for a law firm in Los Angeles. He recently finished editing his latest feature film, The Quatrain: http://www.myspace.com/thequatrain.
Brock Winstead
Brock Winstead graduated from NC State in 2004 with degrees in film
and computer science and is pursuing an M.A. in City Planning
at UC Berkeley.
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