Individual Classes
Full Immersion Program
Summer Camps

 

2019 S. Juniper St. 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19148

215-313-0123



faculty

Anders Uhl

Anders Uhl is a professional Director and award-winning Cinematographer. He has lectured and taught at Columbia College in Chicago, The New York Film Academy and The School of Visual Arts as well as working as an instructor to professional members of The International Cinematographers Guild. He has worked on projects at all budget levels from indie features to documentaries, music videos and television commercials.

faculty

Bob Larkin

Bob Larkin is a freelance editor with over twenty years of experience. He recently edited and was the Post-Production Supervisor on the feature film Good Day For It. Bob was also the Post-Production Supervisor/Editor for the feature film The 24th Day, invited to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. He edited WinCatherine: The Story of Catherine Ndereba, the award-winning documentary They Shoot Pigeons, Don’t They? and was co-editor and technical advisor on Space Times Square, which was recently awarded the prestigious John Culkin Award from The Media Ecology Association. Bob also wrote, directed and edited the feature Viral Assassins.  He has taught editing at University of the Arts, Temple University and Drexel University.

faculty

Michelle Pollino

Michelle Pollino is an Emmy-nominated producer, director and writer with 15 years in the industry, working in TV, radio and film. In 2007 she directed her first short, Inner Wang. She also directed a series of music videos and has worked on features such as "Bottleworld" and "Buddy Gilbert Comes Alive" and has worked alongside veteran actors such as Robert Loggia and William Forsythe. Michelle launched Chicken and Stars Productions in 2007 and is currently writing and directing her first feature, "Birding for Adults."

faculty

Erica Vanstone

After graduating from NYU Film with a BFA in 1997, Erica Vanstone (Pennella) moved to Philadelphia, PA and began a career as a production coordinator for commercials and feature films. Since then, Erica has worked in several areas of the local industry: She's served as the film section editor for Philadelphia Weekly, as a film correspondent for 88.5 FM WXPN, as a producer and editor for WYBE-TV 35 and as a construction office coordinator for companies such as Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox. Additionally, Erica is a grant-winning independent documentary filmmaker, who recently received a Leeway Foundation “Arts and Change” grant to help fund archival research for an hour-long public television project about the South Camden Theatre Company.

faculty

June Fortunato

June is an independent director, producer and screenwriter whose work includes films, plays, audio dramas and actors' workshops. Her "living film" Dual Life, a multi-media stage piece, won an NEA project grant, and her film Adele's Way aired on WHYY, WYBE and DUTV. June also works as a location manager and in corporate media production. She has taught production, screenwriting and acting classes at CAPA and the University of the Arts.

faculty

Nicole Agostino

Nicole Agostino is a graduate of Temple University with a BA in Film and Media Arts. Since 2003 she has worked on a variety of films, commercials, television programs and industrial and corporate videos, the majority of which were shot in the Greater Philadelphia Area. She has been a Production Assistant and Assistant Director on both large studio films and small independent features, including Transformers 2Invincible and The Lovely Bones.

faculty

Michael Wakely

Michael Wakely is a working Scout & Location Manager with more than sixteen years experience on feature films, television series, commercials and print media. He has lectured and taught courses for the British Film Institute and mentored film students and filmmakers. He is a published writer of film criticism and analysis, an award winning photographer and recipient of a Philadelphia Art Director's Club Gold Medal for his University of the Arts graduate thesis.

faculty

Erika Mijlin

Erika Mijlin is a producer, editor, and founding partner of the Philadelphia media production company Artifact Pictures. Some recent credits include: The View From Amber Street (Co-Producer/Editor); The Adventures of Teddy P. Brains (Co-Producer/Animation Producer); From Philadelphia to the Front(Associate Producer/Camera); and Viewfinder (Co-Producer/Editor). Erika received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her BA from Vassar College. She has taught editing, documentary production, and media studies at the Film and Media Arts Department of Temple University, and the Television Department of Columbia College.

faculty

Celeste Walker

Celeste Walker has a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Acting from The Actor’s Studio Drama School at the New School University in New York.  She is a member of The Actors Studio, Actors Equity and the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia. She is on the teaching faculty at LaSalle University, Muhlenberg College, Eastern University, and Arcadia University.  Ms. Walker wrote, produced, directed and performed in the 2003 Philadelphia Fringe Festival production of Colette, My Evil Twin.  Other credits include: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds, The Lover, Madness, and Enough Rope, And That’s How the Rent Gets Paid

 

faculty

Wendy Cox

Wendy Cox has been a film professional for over 20 years. A  Philadelphia native, Wendy worked for 16 years  in Los Angeles and several more years around the globe. Early in her film career, she worked as an in-house coordinator at New Line Cinema then later freelanced on some familiar feature films like Dumb & Dumber, Se7en, American History X and Blade II.  For the past 10 years Wendy has been Producing, Production Managing and Supervising feature films and commercials both in the U.S and overseas.  Wendy is delighted to work in Philadelphia as a member of the local film community.

faculty

Roy Koriakin

Roy Koriakin is an award winning writer and producer with nearly a decade worth of experience in the industry.  As the lead writer and producer for the award winning full service video production house, Kphat Productions, he has created over a hundred television commercials (several of which have received national awards).  Early on, he spent 5 years as an associate story producer for the national MTV show, “Viva la Bam”.  Currently, he is producing his fourth feature film, “Living Will”, which stars Ryan Dunn, April Scott and Bam Margera; and he is a writer for the international film website, filmthreat.com.

faculty

Andrew Repasky McElhinney

Andrew Repasky McElhinney is the maker of the films The Scream (1994), Her Father’s Expectancy (1994), A Maggot Tango (1995), Magdalen (1998), A Chronicle of Corpses (2000), Georges Bataille’s Story of the Eye (2003) and Animal Husbandry (2009). McElhinney is also an author, repertory film programmer; educator, burlesque performer, social issue advocate, opera enthusiast and multimedia video installation performance artist who occasionally directs for the stage.  He holds degrees from The New School for Social Research (NYC) and EGS – The European Graduate School (Switzerland).   www.ARMcinema25.com

faculty

David Greenberg

Philadelphia native David Greenberg teaches screenwriting at Drexel University and The University Of The Arts. Since 2006 he has written or doctored 18 feature film screenplays, one of which was produced in New York City in 2008. An original screenplay was sold to an L.A. producer who hopes to shoot it in late 2009. Two other features are tentatively scheduled for 2009 productions in New Orleans and Florida. His 1995 film “The True Meaning Of Cool” won an award from The American Film Institute. After working on the crews of Indie and Studio features, he turned his attention to screenwriting.

 

 

 

 


      

 

 Copyright 2010 Media Enterprises LLC