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Many of our students have gone on to careers 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
After completing an MA in English with a Film Studies concentration at NCSU in 1997, Chad went on to earn an MA in Cinema Studies at NYU and is now a Ph.D. candidate (degree expected June 2009) in the Communication and Culture department at Indiana University. Chad has been awarded numerous fellowships, including a prestigious Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship in 2007-2008.
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. He started off as a camera
operator at WRAL in Raleigh and is now a director.
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 opened in almost thirty cities in March 2008 including showings at the Angelika Film Center in New York and the NuArt Theater in Los Angeles.
Mary Ellis
Mary Ellis received a BA in Film in 2007. She is working as an administrative assistant for the Department of Planning at the North Carolina Museum of Art.
Kevin Flanagan
Kevin received his MA in Film in 2009. He is now a Ph.D student in the Critical and Cultural Studies program at University of Pittsburgh. He is the editor ofKEN RUSSELL: RE-VIEWING ENGLAND'S LAST MANNERIST, due out Fall 2009 from Scarecrow Press.
Beth Everett
Beth Everett received an MA in English with a Film Studies concentration in 2006. She is currently teaching English at Fuquay-Varina High School in North Carolina.
Nate Gelgud
Nathan Gelgud graduated with an BA in Film Studies in 2000. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and regularly contributes film reviews to the Independent Weekly. He also maintains the blog Nathan Gelgud's New York Film Review and makes art and comics that you can find at gelgud.etsy.com.
Robert Greene
After graduating in 2000, Robert Greene completed an MFA at CCNY in 2002 and
is currently post-production supervisor and documentary producer at 4th Row Films, a New York-based production company. Robert has directed, edited and shot award-winning films that have been shown around the world. Most recently, An Omar Broadway Film, which Robert produced, edited and shot, played at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival where it was picked up by HBO. The film will premiere in 2009. Robert has just completed his first feature documentary, Owning the Weather, which is about humankind's attempts to modify the weather. The film has recently acquired a producer's rep for broadcast and digital distribution. Robert will premire Owning the Weather at the 2009 Full Frame Documentary Festivel in Durham, NC, April 2-5.
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.
Josh Hines
Josh Hines graduated in spring 2008 with a B.A. in Film Studies. He is working as a Final Cut Pro editor for
Corvey Creative in Carrboro, NC.
Colby Hoke
Colby Hoke graduated with a Film Studies BA in 2007. After first working as an intern, he was offered a full-time position as a producer/ video editor/ designer at Red Hat.
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, where he will graduate in December 2008. He was awarded the the Josh Schwartz Scholarship for original TV writing at USC and nominated for the Humanitas Fellowship. He was also recently invited (one of only three writers from USC) to an industry meeting with the president of Warner Bros TV.
While pursuing his studies at USC, he has worked as an assistant editor on "Odyssey: Drive Around the World" for National Geographic and as an assistant editor for Gurney Productions on "Bitten" and "Predator Instinct," both for the Discovery Channel.
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. In the Spring of '09, she will begin working toward an MA in Liberal Arts at Duke University.
Tim Kiernan
Tim Kiernan won the John Hope Franklin Fellowship awarded by Full Frame.
Tim is a filmmaker and graphic designer in Raleigh, NC.
Nancy McVittie
Nancy McVittie received her MA in English with a concentration in Film Studies from NCSU in 2008. She is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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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