Faculty
Sue Abramson,
Associate Professor of Photography (sueabe@pghfilmmakers.org)
(B.F.A. Maryland Institute College of Art) exhibits her work nationally
and regionally including exhibitions at the Houston Center for Photography,
the Visual Studies Workshop and the Carnegie Museum of Art. Her photographs
have been published in Extended Frames, Pittsburgh Revealed: Photographs
Since 1850 and in the Pinhole Journal. Her work is in numerous
collections including the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Allentown Art
Museum and the Polaroid Collection. Examples of Sue's work are online
here.
Karen Antonelli,
Adjunct Instructor
(B.A. Cardiff College of Art, Wales, U.K.) is an artist from Bristol,
England where she exhibited at the Arnolfini Gallery, Watershed Media
Centre and Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. After completing an
artist residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art she moved
to Pittsburgh where she teaches photography and drawing at the Art
Institute of Pittsburgh. Her drawings, sculptures and photographs
are in many private collections.
Jeanette Bellon,
Adjunct Instructor
(B.F.A. Edinboro University) is a commercial and programming producer
for KDKA-TV. She has produced, written and directed a number of short
films, has freelanced on many film and video shoots, and is currently
writing a feature length screenplay.
Tim Benedict, Adjunct Instructor
Certificate, Audio Technology, Brown Institute. Director of Audio
Services, Summit Film Lab; Sound recording, editing and mixing for
video, film and multi-media; Extensive experience with fundamental
recording technololgies and techniques as well as the continuing digital
evolution.
Mary Jane Bent, Adjunct Instructor
(B.A. Mount Holyoke College) is a free-lance photographer. She has
taught photography at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Carnegie
Mellon University and privately. Formerly the Director of Photography
at Allegheny General Hospital, her work has been published regionally
and nationally. She has received several awards for her work including
the Addy, the Matrix and PRSA awards.
Mike Bonello, Adjunct Instructor
(edu@pghfilmmakers.org)
(B.A. Pennsylvania State University) is an independent media artist
whose work has been screened locally and regionally. Local exhibition
venues include the Warhol Museum and the Mattress Factory, while regionally
he has shown work in Brooklyn, Buffalo, Louisville and Murphreesboro,
TN.
Jim Burke, Adjunct Assistant
Professor
(B.A. Point Park College) is the Director of Photo Services at the
University of Pittsburgh. He has taught photography at the Community
College of Allegheny County and at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts,
where he also served as a member of the Board of Directors. His post-undergraduate
work at the Rochester Institute of Photography included the study
of materials and processes of photography, the history of photography
and antique photographic processes.
Frank J. Caloiero, Adjunct
Instructor
(B.A. Duquesne University) is an editor/cameraman for On Q Magazine,
a nightly show on WQED. He was also the editor for The Big Picture
an IMAX film for the Carnegie Science Center. He has also edited several
music videos, commercials and documentaries with his television credits
spanning PBS, VH1,TNN and the DiscoveryChannel.
John Cantine, Associate Professor
(jpc@pghfilmmakers.org)
(M.F.A. Film Production, Ohio University, B.F.A. Creative Writing,
Carnegie Mellon University)
is an Associate Professor at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. He is co-author
of the filmmaking textbook, Shot By
Shot: A Practical Guide to Filmmaking, a freelance video
editor and script consultant, and an independent film and video artist.
His website is johncantine.com.
Examples of John's work are online
here.
Hugues Dalton, Adjunct Instructor
Freelance Editor and Avid Demo Artist. Avid Certified Support Representative/Win/Mac/Unity.
Clients include UPMC, PBS, Jim Henson Co., Sesame Workshop. Award
winning film & commercial producer/director.
David Early,
Adjunct Assistant Professor
(M.Ed. University of Pittsburgh) has appeared in numerous stage productions
in Pittsburgh. His television credits include The Young and the
Restless, Quincy, Catercousins, and Tales from the Crypt.
He has also appeared in several feature films: The Silence of the
Lambs, Dawn of the Dead, Passed Away, Monkey Shines and Creepshow.
He has worked for the Allegheny Intermediate Unit for 16 years offering
drama workshops to students in the 42 school districts in Allegheny
county.
Tim Fabian,
Adjunct Instructor
(AST, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh) is owner and president of Pro
Photo Inc. Mr. Fabian is a former president of the Associated Artists
of Pittsburgh as well as a former vice president and founding member
of the Silver Eye Center for Photography. He co-authored The Steps
of Pittsburgh, Portrait of a City. Mr. Fabian's work is included
in numberous public and private collections. He exhibits both regionally
and nationally.
Angeliki Georgiou,
Adjunct Assistant Professor
(M.F.A. Ohio University) is the Arts and Cultural Development and
Mentoring Instructor and the Visiting Artists coordinator for the
Manchester Craftsmen's Guild education programs. She has received
various honors and awards for her photographic work. She exhibits
regionally and her work is in many public and private collections.
Lorraine Heidekat,
Adjunct Associate Professor
(B.A. Duquesne University) is an Emmy-winning freelance writer/producer
whose projects have included a documentary about adopting disabled
children and a comedy set in a funeral home. She also writes and produces
industrial videotapes, television and radio commercials.
Susan Howard,
Director of Media Literacy (showard@pghfilmmakers.org)
(B.A. Pennsylvania State University) is an editor and sound effects
editor for independent and commercial film and television. She has
worked on projects as diverse as the cult favorite splatter feature
film Street Trash and a media installation, entitled Background,
now in the permanent collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art. For
its last 12 seasons in production she was the editor of Mister
Rogers? Neighborhood at WQED-TV. She is co-author of the filmmaking
text Shot
By Shot: A Practical Guide to Filmmaking.
Barry Howell,
Adjunct Instructor
M.A., University of Pittsburgh. Teaches courses on film analysis,
politics and film, television analysis, and writing about film at
the University of Pittsburgh; Editorial assistant for an internationally
acclaimed syndicated cartoonist; Participated in conceptual arts projects
with the multi-media arts group Bewegung Nurr, based in Berlin and
Dresden, Germany.
Charlie Humphrey,
Executive Director of Pittsburgh Filmmakers (charlieh@pghfilmmakers.org)
(B.A., Philosophy, Whitman College) is the former editor and publisher
of In Pittsburgh Newsweekly one of the first papers in the
country to be completely pre-press published with computers.
William Judson, Adjunct
Associate Professor
(M.A. Oberlin College) is the former Curator of Film and Video at
Carnegie Museum of Art and teaches in the Art History Department at
the University of Pittsburgh. He held a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship
to France through Yale University for film research. He has served
on many selection panels for state and federal agencies and private
foundations, and has lectured and published on a range of art history
and media arts topics. He has organized a large number of film and
video exhibitions and series within a museum context.
Karen Kaighin, Adjunct
Assistant Professor
(B.F.A. Philadelphia College of Art) has been exhibiting locally and
nationally since 1991, including exhibitions at the Society of Contemporary
Photography in Kansas City and The Carnegie Museum of Art. Solo exhibitions
of her work have been presented at Westmoreland Museum of American
Art, Gallery in the Square and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
Matt Kambic, Adjunct
Instructor
(B.A. University of Pittsburgh) is an artist, writer and filmmaker
whose portfolio includes work for clients such as Disney, iKnowthat.com,
Kennywood Park and many others. Kambic has produced video biographies
of national political figures for Duquesne University,co-created the
children's television program The Magic Woods, and written
and directed his own science fiction feature The Weapon. He
currently develops multimedia for Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Academy.
Rich Kelly, Adjunct Instructor
Director of Photography, WQED Multimedia; Freelance photographer,
Forbes, Time Inc., Glamor, Parenting;Exhibits regionally.
Brady Lewis, Professor
(blewis@pghfilmmakers.org)
(B.F.A. New York University) is Pittsburgh Filmmakers' Director of
Education. He has presented his short films at the Museum of Modern
Art in New York, the Figueira da Foz International Film Festival in
Portugal and on the Southern Circuit, a visiting artist tour of southern
cities organized by the South Carolina Arts Commission. His work has
received more than thirty film festival awards, and his productions
have been funded twice by the National Endowment for the Arts. He
has received numerous Mid-Atlantic Fellowships as well as grants from
the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His short films have been purchased
for the permanent collections of museums and libraries in the United
States, Denmark and Australia. He also wrote and directed the feature-length
film, Daddy Cool (2002), which has been showcased in many international
film festivals. He is co-author of the widely-used filmmaking text
Shot
By Shot: A Practical Guide to Filmmaking.
Carolina Loyola Garcia,
Adjunct Instructor
(M.F.A. Carnegie Mellon University) is an independent media artist
with experience in video, digital media, installations and performance.
Her video work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in
such venues as Art in General, NYC, Itau Cultural Center, Brazil,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Costa Rica, Bangkok Experimental Film
Festival, Thailand and Bienal of Electronic Arts, Chile among others.
Her work has been included in video compilations such as FForum,
produced by Plan Z Media and the Film Kitchen Compilation.
Zsuzsi Matolcsy, Adjunct
Assistant Professor
(B.A. Point Park College) is a photographer, educator and a Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts Fellow. Her work has been exhibited at the Carnegie
Museum of Art and the Houston International Photo Festival as well
as in a variety of national and international galleries. She has been
published in the European photography journal Fotomuvszet and
her work is in the permanent collections of the Carnegie Museum of
Art and the State Museum of Pennsylvania.
William (Buzz) Miller,
Adjunct Instuctor
(B.A., University of Pittsburgh) Mr. Miller is a freelance videographer,
editor, AV systems integrator, installation artist and video designer
for live performance. His recent collaborators include Attack Theater
and Squonk Opera. He formerly designed and integrated multimedia into
live science demonstrations at the Carnegie Science Center.
Jeff Monahan, Adjunct
Assistant Professor
is a professional actor and a member of the Screen Actor?s Guild,
Actors Equity Association and AFTRA, as well as a professional screenwriter
and a member of the Writers Guild of America. As an actor, he trained
with John Strasberg and theater legend Robert Lewis. He?s had extensive
stage experience, both regionally and in New York. He has appeared
on television in ABC?s Target Earthand, NBC?s Deep Attack
and in films such as John Sayles' Lone Star and George Romero's
Bruiser. As a writer he's had two feature films produced, Hits,
with Martin Sheen and Spree, with Michael Ironside. He was
head writer for the horror film series Tom Savini's The Chill Factor.
He has also taught screenwriting, acting techniques and film production
at Carnegie Mellon University and New York University.
Elizabeth Monoian,
Adjunct Instuctor
M.F.A. Carnegie Mellon University. Executive Director and Founder
of Society for Cultural Exchange; Electronic media, video and performance
artist; Exhibits internationally and nationally.
Joseph E. Morrison,
Adjunct Instructor (joe@pghfilmmakers.org)
(B.A. Temple University) is Pittsburgh Filmmakers? Director of Operations.
He spent ten years working at PCTV, Pittsburgh?s public access television
station, where he taught field production, directed numerous live
shows and produced and directed documentaries for many Pittsburgh
non-profit agencies. He is also a freelance videographer and consultant.
Dean Mougianis, Adjunct
Assistant Professor
(B.A. University of Pittsburgh) has been an electronic media professional
for over twenty-five years. During that time he has functioned in
a variety of capacities including scriptwriter, producer, editor,
digital animator, compositor and designer, both as a freelancer and
as an employee of several Pittsburgh production firms. He was at one
time station manager of WYEP-FM and a regular contributor of radio
theatre productions there. He currently operates a digital video post-production
business producing work for clients locally and nationally.
Gordon Nelson, Adjunct
Assistant Professor
(B.F.A. Edinboro University of PA) is the former Program Coordinator
for the Department of Film and Video at the Carnegie Museum of Art.
He is an independent filmmaker, media artist and educator. His films
and videos have been screened locally and internationally.
Carol O'Sullivan,
Adjunct Assistant Professor (carolo@pghfilmmakers.org)
(B.A. University of Pittsburgh)is Media Relations Coordinator for
Pittsburgh Filmmakers. She also teaches Film History at LaRoche College
in Pittsburgh and is a free-lance writer. She is a former assistant
curator of Film and Video at the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Mark Perrott, Adjunct
Assistant Professor
(B.F.A. Carnegie Mellon University) is a fine art and commercial photographer.
His work is in the collections of many museums including the San Francisco
Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum
of Art. His photographs have been exhibited in museums and galleries,
including the Carnegie Museum of Art and O.K. Harris in New York.
He has published two monographs of his photographs, Eliza,
in 1989 and Hope Abandoned in 2000.
Ed Petrosky, Assistant
Professor
(M.F.A. Pratt Institute) is a professional photojournalist, exhibiting
photographer and digital artist. He has recently participated in over
twenty-five individual and group exhibitions, including individual
exhibitions at the University of California Berkeley, Kansas City
Art Institute, Southern Light Gallery, Ithaca College, University
of Guanajuato in Mexico and Gallery Grodzka and K.U.L. Gallery in
Lublin, Poland. His work is also included on the CD ROM, The New
Street Photography and featured at the Fotocircle Gallery Archive
on the Web.
Mary Rawson, Adjunct
Associate Professor
(M.F.A. Point Park College) is a performer and filmmaker. As a television
producer/writer she has made many award winning documentary and dramatic
programs seen on PBS and A&E, including The House on the Waterfall,
a film portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright?s masterpiece and Medea
with Dame Judith Anderson and Zoe Caldwell. Her video A Map of
Memories won the 1996 ?best of show? Golden Quill Award. Her Emmy
Award-winning documentary, Stephanie, was shown on PBS in 2001.
As an actress and performer, she had a principal role in the independent
film No Tips, No Love and plays the recurring character of
Mary Owl on Mister Rogers? Neighborhood. In addition to stage
and film she has many revues, commercials, industrials and voice-overs
to her credit.
Kathleen Rebel, Registrar
(krebel@pghfilmmakers.org)
(B.A. Penn State University) has held administrative positions with
the University of Phoenix, Tucson campus and the Pittsburgh Ballet
Theatre School. She is a writer and toymaker.
Robert Rutkowski,
Adjunct Assistant Professor
(B.S. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) is a writer, producer and
director who operates a Pittsburgh-based film and video production
company, The Magic Lantern, which specializes in producing audio/visual
programs for business and industry. He began his career as a director
in the U.S. Army and has produced commercials and industrial films.
He was the director of production services at George Romero?s Latent
Image where he was responsible for pre- and post-production of feature
films.
Jen Saffron, Adjunct
Instructor
(M.F.A. Bard College) is interested in the intersection of image-making
and community activism. Her photography and video projects are primarily
documentary, community-based and/or collaborative. She is a part-time
instructor at the University of Pittsburgh, leading photo/video service-learning
classes in the developing world. She exhibits locally and nationally.
Michael Schwab, Adjunct
Assistant Professor
(B.F.A. Kansas City Art Institute) is an administrator, producer and
director at Kensington Falls Studios, a Pittsburgh-based film animation
studio. His studio has won more than a dozen local and regional awards
for their animated TV commercials. He is an instructor of hand-drawn
animation in the Computer Animation/School of Design program at The
Art Institute of Pittsburgh and conducts an animation studio for teens
at the Sweetwater Center for the Arts.
Aaron Spaulding,
Adjunct Instructor
(M.H.C.I. Carnegie Mellon University) is an award-winning interaction
designer with the Communications Design Group at Carnegie Mellon University.
His work focuses on video animation and the design and development
of interactive systems.
Brian Staszel, Adjunct Assistant Professor
(B.F.A. New York University) is an award-winning filmmaker and new
media designer whose work has been featured in shows hosted by The
New York Festivals, the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the
BBC. A professional freelancer, he also enjoys creating film, video
and interactive animations for Carnegie Mellon University.
Adam L. Stevenson, Adjunct Instructor
(B.F.A. Point Park College) is a freelance filmmaker who has worked
as Director of Photography, camera operator, videographer and grip
for numerous commercial, non-profit and feature length projects including
the films Wonderboys and Dogma.
Andres Tapia-Urzua, Adjunct Assistant
Professor
(M.F.A. Carnegie Mellon University) is the director of Plan Z Media
and a Media Artist at the Media Design Center, Carnegie Mellon University.
He is both a Mid-Atlantic Media Arts and Pennsylvania Council on the
Arts Fellow. Twice nominated for a Rockefeller Fellowship, his work
has been extensively exhibited in such venues as the Pacific Film
Archive in Berkeley California, the Global Multimedia Interface, London,
UK and the Biennall of Video and Electronic Arts, Santiago, Chile.
Kaoru Tohara, Adjunct Assistant Professor
(M.F.A., Indiana University) is the exhibition coordinator at SilverEye
Center for Photography. He is a fine art photographer and 3D artist
who exhibits and lectures regionally, nationally and internationally.
His work was included in the 1996 Biennial at the Pittsburgh Center
for the Arts and the Digital Image Biennial Exhibition at the Wellington
B. Gray Gallery in North Carolina where he won the Qualex Corporation
Award.
Dylan Vitone,
Adjunct Instructor
MFA Massachusetts College of Art. Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon
University; Exhibits nationally and regionally at Museum of Fine Art
Florida State University, Notre Dame University, Blue Sky Gallery,
Sean Kelly Gallery; 2004 fellowship winner, Silver EyeCenter for Photography.
Ralph Vituccio, Adjunct Associate Professor
(B.S. University of Pittsburgh) is an independent film and video writer,
producer and director. He is the Director of Media Development in
Communications Design and a Professor in the Entertainment Technology
Center at Carnegie Mellon University. As an independent film and video
maker, he has received numerous grants in support of his work from
the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Mid-Atlantic Region Media
Arts Fellowship Program and the National Endowment for the Arts. His
award-winning documentary, Performance: The Living Art, won
a 1990 Artist Distinction Award at the 40th annual Berlin International
Film Festival. It aired on a number of PBS affiliate stations and
in several other countries.
Bill Wade, Adjunct Assistant Professor
(B.F.A. Ohio University) is a photo-journalist, writer, educator,
curator and fine art photographer. He is an award winning staff photographer
and photo editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, having been nominated
four times for the Pulitzer Prize in Photography and three times named
Pennsylvania Press Photographer Association?s Photographer of the
Year. Wade has been exhibited and published internationally. He received
the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship and a
Golden Light award from the Maine Photographic Workshops for ?Television
in Our Culture.
Daniel H. Wild, Adjunct Instructor
(M.A. University of Pittsburgh) is a doctoral candidate in Cultural
and Critical Studies and an Instructor in Film History and Theory
at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2000 he served as the curator
for the European Cinema Series at the Carnegie Museum of Art. He is
a founding member of the multi-media arts group Bewegung Nurr, based
in Berlin and Dresden, Germany, for whom he has conceptualized numerous
installation, video and performance exhibitions since 1989.
Will Zavala, Assistant Professor (zavala@pghfilmmakers.org)
(MA, Stanford University) Media producer & freelancer specializing
in documentaries. Works with business and institutional clients,
and has credits on productions for ITVS, PBS, MTV, and HBO. Films
and videos have screened in festivals internationally and on public
television.
Nancy Zielinski, Adjunct Instructor
(M.A. University of Pittsburgh) has taught the history of art and
architecture at the University of Pittsurgh. Her thesis focused on
the role of James A.M. Whistler and the defining of the pictorial
and straight styles of photography in Alfred Steiglitz's publication
Camera Work (1903-1917). She has also earned a Graduate Certificate
in Mutlimedia from Duquesne University. She has exhibited and reviewed
literature on digital imagery and has interned with The New Media
Group locally.