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Z. Eric Yang shooting his Oscar-winning thesis film The State of Sunshine

Z. Eric Yang shooting his Oscar-winning thesis film The State of Sunshine

Florida State /  Film School / Faculty & Administration / Faculty

Faculty

  • 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. - more -

     

  • Dr. Valliere Richard Auzenne

    Dr. Richard's doctorate in Communication is from the Florida State University. The focus of her teaching is screenwriting, film history, professional development, and documentary filmmaking. - more -

  • Reb Braddock

    Reb Braddock is a writer and director of feature films who serves as the Associate Dean for The Film School. - more -

  • Bill Carruth

    William (Bill) C. Carruth is a third generation film editor with over 40 years experience in the film industry. -more-

  • April Caskie Simmons

    April is an experienced filmmaker who teaches classes in motion picture editing as a Visiting Assistant in Film focusing on project organization, aesthetics, and techniques of narrative editing. - more -

  • Paul Cohen

    Paul Cohen is an independent motion picture executive, who has created a number of successful distribution and production companies including Analysis Films, Masada Production, Moonbeam Productions, and Aries Films. - more -

  • Leslie France

    A professional actor and a highly regarded acting teacher, France has worked in film, television, and theater for more than fifteen years. - more -

  • George Geiger

    George Geiger has been a professional writer for more than 30 years in the entertainment industry as creator, executive producer, and show-runner of prime time television.

  • Geoffrey Gilmore

    Geoffrey Gilmore is the Creative Director of Tribeca Enterprises, a New York company that includes the Tribeca Film Festival, the Tribeca Cinemas and the Tribeca Film Festival Doha. - more -

  • Claudia Johnson

    Claudia Johnson is a writer, documentarian, and a member of the faculty at the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts, where she helped create the screenwriting courses and continues to teach feature workshops. 

  • Jed Kaleko

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

  • 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. - more -

  • Victoria Meyer

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

  • 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. - more -

  • Frank Patterson

    Professor Frank Patterson serves as the Dean of the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts. - more -

  • Richard Portman

    Professor Emeritus 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. - more -

  • 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. - more -

  • Keith Slade

    Keith 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. - more -

     

  • Dr. Andrew Syder

    Dr. Andrew Syder is a digital media artist and a scholar of film and new media serving as an Assistant in Film in the Film School. - more -