Faculty / Staff

Faculty

- - Reb Braddock
    
    Reb Braddock is a writer and director of feature films who serves as the Associate Dean for The Film School. He is one of the original architects of the MFA program who has shepherded its growth and success since its first year in 1989.
  - Chip Chalmers
    
    Chip Chalmers is a veteran director of film, television, and theatre with more than 100 credits including Star Trek: The Next Generation, Miami Vice, Melrose Place, and Beverly Hills, 90210.
  - Leslie France
    
    A professional actor and a highly regarded acting teacher, France has worked in film, television, and theater for more than fifteen years. She starred in the recent Echelon Pictures theatrical release Confession of a Florist where her "soulful performance" (Variety) garnered rave reviews.
  - 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, as well as the acclaimed films Gal Young 'un, A Flash of Green, and Ruby in Paradise, a film that garnered a Grand Prize win at the Sundance Film Festival.
- - 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. As a writer, he has dealt with TriStar, Universal and Castle Rock, to name a few.
  - Victoria Meyer
    
    Vicky Meyer is a screenwriter and highly regarded script consultant who teaches courses in screenwriting. She has provided story and screenwriting consultation on a non-disclosure basis with some of Hollywood’s most prominent directors.
- - Paul Cohen
    
    Illustrating the entrepreneurial, independent cinema spirit for over two decades, Paul Cohen created a number of successful independent distribution and production companies including Analysis Films, Masada Production, Moonbeam Productions, and Aries Films. He has been responsible for acquiring and marketing a wide range of successful films often recognized as cinematic gems and contemporary classics. These include Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant, starring Harvey Keitel, Mephisto, the 1981 Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Language Film, My Brilliant Career directed by first-timer Gillian Armstrong and starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill, The Chosen starring Maximilian Schell, and Luchino Visconti's The Innocent.
  - Jed Kaleko
    
    Jed Kaleko is a veteran of more than 13 years of stage design and set construction.
  - 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.
- - Rexford Metz, ASC
    
    Rexford Metz is a cinematographer with more than 60 feature film and television credits including 102 Dalmatians, U-571, Ghostbusters 2, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Charlie, and The Defiant Ones. He is a member of the America Society of Cinematographers, The Directors Guild of America, and has served as a technical advisor for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
  - Keith Slade
    
    Keith supervises the day-to-day set operations at the Film School and manages the school's film equipment room. He also 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.
- - Stuart Robertson
    
    Stuart Robertson is an Academy Award winning visual effects artist who has created some of the most memorable visual sequences in American cinema including his work on the film What Dreams May Come for which he earned an Oscar.
- - Bill Carruth
    
    William (Bill) C. Carruth is a third generation film editor with over 40 years experience in the film industry. His credits as Film Editor include Nickelodeon, Saint Jack, FM, Caddyshack, Night Games, What Comes Around, Island of Dr. Moreau, They All Laughed and many others. In the past 10 years Bill has worked as a Sound Supervisor editing dialogue, ADR and effects for feature films such as The Fan, Maverick, Executive Decision, U.S. Marshals, Assassins, Lethal Weapon 4, and Conspiracy Theory.
  - Alessandro Soares
    
    As Post-Production Specialist, Alessandro assists the senior engineer and faculty in tasks associated with film, audio, video, and post-production equipment for teaching and filmmaking.
- - 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.
  - Richard Portman
    
    Distinguished Filmmaker in Residence 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 and a British Academy Award for Best Sound on Robert Altman's Nashville.
- - Dr. Valliere Richard Auzenne
    
    Dr. Richard's doctorate in Communication is from the Florida State University and her M.A. in Art is from California State University, Los Angeles. The focus of her teaching is screenwriting, film history, professional development, and documentary filmmaking with research interests in film history, computer animation and African American art.
  - Dr. Frank P. Tomasulo
    
    Dr. Frank P. Tomasulo is Professor and Head of Film Studies at The Film School. He received his M.A. in Cinema Studies at New York University and his Ph.D. in Film and Television from UCLA. He has taught a variety of film history, theory, production, and screenwriting classes, and has written, produced, and directed numerous films, TV shows, videos, and theatrical productions.

Administration

- Frank Patterson
  
  Professor Frank Patterson serves as the Dean of the Florida State University College of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts.
- Raymond Fielding
  
  Dean Emeritus Raymond Fielding joined The Film School in 1990 and served as the founding permanent dean for 13 years before stepping down in the summer of 2003. Dean Fielding has spent the last 45 years as a professor and/or administrator at six different university film schools and is the author of six books on film technology and history and of more than thirty articles in scholarly journals.
- Reb Braddock
  
  Reb Braddock is a writer and director of feature films who serves as the Associate Dean for The Film School. He is one of the original architects of the MFA program who has shepherded its growth and success since its first year in 1989.
- Fred Salancy
- Meryl Warren
  
  As Director of Alumni, Meryl Warren works with the Deans in the administration of the Film School. She coordinates alumni affairs for the Film School, and organizes annual screenings of thesis films in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Panama City.
- Linda Hensley
  
  As the Administrative Specialist, Linda handles the day-to-day administrative matters of the Film School on behalf of the Dean's Office and acts as the primary trouble-shooter for faculty, staff and students.

Staff

- Kathy Barber
  
  Kathy works directly with the dean in coordinating student film festival submissions for advanced projects and thesis films produced in the undergraduate and graduate programs in the Film School, and coordinating special events and publicity.
- Marie Behm
  
  Marie Behm is the academic advisor and mapping coordinator to over 100 film majors in the undergraduate program. She conducts the orientation sessions each semester for incoming students, counsels and advises prospective students on applying to the film program, and serves as the primary coordinator of the undergraduate admissions process for the undergraduate admissions committee.
- Sheila Bernstein
  
  Sheila is assigned to the Film School as a University Business Administrator representative to process the school's spending and advise the administration on all fiscal matters, as well as maintain all records on budget activity.
- Robert Braddock
  
  Robert is responsible for designing, implementing and managing the computer-based information systems within The Film School.
- Tony Ciarlariello
  
  Tony's manages the Film School's day-to-day supervision and coordination of student pre-production, production, and post-production.
- Jim Green
  
  As Senior Engineering Technician/Designer, Jim Green maintains and repairs all production and post-production equipment.
- Cynthia Lugo
  
  As Assistant to the Associate Dean, Cynthia assists with daily activities managing, handling, coordinating and processing the Associate Dean's day to day business, as well as acting as the primary coordinator of the graduate program.
- Sabrina Reisinger de Angulo
  
  As the Executive Assistant to the Dean of The Film School, Sabrina assists the Dean with all functions pertaining to the Dean's duties and with the daily functioning of the Dean's Office. She is the primary contact for all business with the dean.
- Dave Schmeling
  
  As the Film School community liaison, Dave assists the Dean's Office with special event coordination, sponsor development, and promotion of the Film School in the local community.
- Keith Slade
  
  Keith supervises the day-to-day set operations at the Film School and manages the school's film equipment room. He also 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.
- Alessandro Soares
  
  As Post-Production Specialist, Alessandro assists the senior engineer and faculty in tasks associated with film, audio, video, and post-production equipment for teaching and filmmaking.
- Richard Travis
  
  Richard serves as the school's projectionist and archivist and manages the school's Research and Resource Center which provides access for our students to recorded and printed materials for student and faculty research projects.
- Duane Wood
  
  Duane manages and maintains the post-production facilities for The Film School and assists students, faculty and staff in the use of those facilities via instruction, oversight, and scheduling.

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