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cat accardi email
CCA Adjunct Instructor
Cat holds a Bachelor of Arts from Hofstra University in English/Creative Writing and Drama. She has been an active member of the Denver Theatre community since 2006 as an actor as well as producing/editing video promos for upcoming plays.
Cat graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Colorado Film School with an A.A.S. in FVT, Post-Production in 2009. You can see her animated work displayed in the lobby of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts as well as on screens above the stage during performances.
Cat works as an independent contractor for the marketing firm Point of Reference as an editor. She currently teaches Intro to Digital Effects at the Colorado Film School. You may recognize her in several CFS Student Film productions.
AMELIA ALIGHIERI, MH email
 CCA Adjunct Instructor
Amelia Alighieri began developing and teaching film studies almost 20 years ago at the University of Colorado at Denver (UCD), the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), the Colorado Film School, and Regis University. She was the director of the town of Parker Film series, where she was a frequent lecturer. As an undergraduate and graduate student, Amelia won numerous regional and national awards for film criticism. Her areas of emphasis are film noir, contemporary global cinema, horror and action films, cinema and the city, ‘70s cinema, and film and foreign policy. She holds a Master’s in Film Theory and Criticism and a BA in Literature with a minor in Film Studies, both from the University of Colorado at Denver.
DICK ALWEIS, MS email
 CCA Adjunct Instructor
Dick Alweis began working as an IA film editor and assistant in New York after receiving his B.A. and M.S. from The State University of New York at Albany. He worked on ABC, NBC and PBS programs including Sixty Minutes and First Tuesday, trailers including Claude Chabrol's This Man Must Die and commercials including spots for Dr. Pepper and Coca-Cola.
Dick moved to Denver in 1972. Since then he has produced, directed, and edited documentary, sponsored, educational, and promotional films for clients including Harcourt Brace, The National Hockey League, Gulf Oil, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and commercials spots including Quizno's, Wendy's, and Taco John and commissioned public art films for The Seattle Arts Commission and The Mayor's Commission on the Arts (Denver.)
Dick has received extensive regional and national awards including awards from the New York Film Festival, American Film Festival, Houston International Film Festival, U.S. International Film And Video Festival, INTERCOM International Communication Film & Video Festival, Charleston International Film Festival, and Columbus International Film and Video Festival.
NEVELYN BLACK email
CCA Adjunct Instructor
Nevelyn Black began working in television production for PBS after graduating from the Art Institute. She then went on to become a Writer/Producer of on-air and on-demand promotions. Her work has been seen nationwide with Starz Entertainment Group (SEG), the largest provider of premium channels in the United States. During her years with SEG, she produced high profile short and long form motion picture promotions, behind-the-scenes, interstitial, original branding and image campaigns. Nevelyn also worked on the channel launches of BET Movies, Black Starz, (now Starz InBlack), Starz Kids & Family, Starz Comedy as well as the Starz Video On-Demand service.
She has coordinated and executed countless shoots, directed on-air talent, managed production crews, collaborated with designers, editors, composers and other essential vendors. She has covered events ranging from Hollywood’s Red Carpet Movie Premieres to the Underground World of Independent Films. Those events include Toronto International Film Festival, South by Southwest Music and Film Festival, Acapulco Black Film Festival, Urbanworld Film Festival and the NAACP Image Awards.
Nevelyn has covered Behind-the-Scenes on the set of films like Guess Who starring Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher; Next Friday starring Ice Cube and Mike Epps; The Visit starring Hill Harper and Billy Dee Williams; Save the Last Dance starring Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas; Two Can Play That Game starring Vivica A. Fox, Morris Chestnut and Anthony Anderson, and more.
She has interviewed, worked with and written interstitial for John Singleton, Spike Lee, Lexi Alexander, Steve Carr, Kasi Lemmons, Hill Harper, Eddie Griffen, Samuel L. Jackson, Queen Latifah, Mario Joyner, Bill Duke, Jessica Alba, Mekhi Phifer, Sanaa Lathan, Brian McKnight, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Obba Babatunde, Elijah Wood, Claire Forlani, Charlie Hunnam, Dominic Monaghan, Aries Spears, Melvin Van Peebles, LisaRaye, Sherri Belafonte, Cuba Gooding Jr. and many others.
As a Promotions Producer, she has received industry recognition from the National Association of Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) and she is a 4 time Telly award winner.
Nevelyn is currently enjoying freelance work and teaching the fundamentals to others as an instructor with the Colorado Film School (CFS). She was recently invited to take part in a Special Topics class at CFS to help students plan and prepare for their first feature film production, Pearman.
GALINA BOULGAKOVA, MFA email
CCA Associate Professor, Regis Affiliate Faculty, Head of Acting
Galina received her Masters of Fine Arts in Theater and Film from the Moscow Art Theater Conservatory. A highly skilled practitioner and instructor of the renowned Stanislavski system of acting, she traveled specifically to the United States to develop her practice for the screen. Over the last seven years, Galina has developed unique styles and methods specifically for film acting by focusing on the essence of performance. This amalgamation of great contemporary teachers and their methods from around the world is grounded in the belief that actors must be professional and truly psychologically safe for the acting craft that is so needed in film today.
She is on a mission to build a strong acting program at the Colorado Film School.
AARON BURNS, MFA email
CCA Adjunct Instructor
A former actor, Aaron Burns decided to study filmmaking at Chapman University where he earned an MFA. He went on to work in Los Angeles for the Director Morgan Neville, as an assistant on THE COOL SCHOOL (PBS documentary) and on Todd Snider music videos. He was Assistant Editor and Screenwriter on THE BATTALION, a web-based series that chronicles the real-life challenges of firefighters across the country. He served as Co-Editor on JOURNEY WITH MY MOTHER, a documentary from the late Richard Kassebaum. In Colorado, he has met the promotional video needs for clients mainly in the non-profit sector.
GEOFFREY CHADWICK, MFA email
 CCA Assistant Professor, Regis Affiliate Faculty
Geoffrey Chadwick holds an M.F.A. in Film Production from the University of Southern California School of Cinema Television and a B.A. in English from Colorado College.
The writer, director and/or editor of over eighty documentary videos distributed nationally and broadcast around the world, Chadwick has also produced and directed a number of Independent short films, exhibited in many film festivals across North America and Europe.
Mr. Chadwick works as a freelance Producer and Editor in Denver and Los Angeles and has also worked professionally in a wide variety of jobs on the set and in The Business.
LAUREN chavezcallejas email
 CCA Adjunct Instructor
Bio coming soon.
JUSTIN DAVIS, BFA email
CCA Adjunct Instructor
Picture coming soon.
Justin has as a B.S.A. in Music (emph-UH-sis - engineering) from the University of Colorado at Denver and over 10 years of experience in production and post production audio for live productions, music, and video.
Teaching audio comes a close second to working as an engineer and the swiss army knife of Rocky Mountain Recorders, where he has worked with such clients as the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Sony Pictures, Lockheed Martin McDonald's, Frontier Airlines, and many, many others.
Pet Peeve: "We'll just loop it in post."
STACeY D'ANGELO, MFA email
CCA Director of Theatre
 Stacey D'Angelo currently serves as director of theatre at the Community College of Aurora and has been with the college since 2008. She holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Ithaca College in upstate, New York and an MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where she studied the unique techniques of Moment Work with Moises Kaufman, Leigh Fondakowski and Tectonic Theatre Project; Viewpoints; Roy Hart Vocal Technique and Grotowski Physical Acting. She is active in the Denver theatre community and works in original ensemble theatre creation. Stacey is passionate about leading the CCA Theatre program in creating exciting and relevant new theatre.
"All my classes and productions are geared towards exploring possibilities on stage through utilizing the student's voice and perspective on the issues they face in our society today. Each production pushes the envelope and explores a post modern approach to theatre - always asking - how can we tell story in ways it hasn't been done before and how can we make theatre relevant to who we are as a community? Each class and production here at CCA takes us a step further. I hope you will come and see for yourself." - Stacey D'Angelo
TOM DELAPA, MA email
 Regis University Lead Faculty, Film Studies, CCA Adjunct Instructor
Thomas Delapa has taught undergraduate film studies courses at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Denver, the University of Denver, Metropolitan State College, Chapman University (Denver), and the Colorado Film School. He was Film Series Curator at the Denver Art Museum, and was guest film curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art-Denver. He has also held positions at the Museum of the Moving Image and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in New York City and Charles Fries Productions in Los Angeles. He has written on film, theater, and television for such publications as the Chicago Tribune, Boulder Weekly (CO), and Westword (Denver), receiving the first- and second-place awards from the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for Arts and Entertainment Criticism in 2006. He also has been film critic for National Public Radio affiliates WBEZ-FM in Chicago and KUVO-FM in Denver. His two Master’s degrees are from New York University (Cinema Studies) and the University of Chicago (Social Sciences). His B.A. is in political science from the University of Colorado.
laurel DIBBLE, MFA email
CCA Adjunct Instructor
Laurel Dibble grew up in Erie, CO. She studied playwriting and directing at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where she wrote and directed the play, ABOUT FACE, which was performed publicly in Boulder. She went on to earn an MFA in screenwriting at the University of Southern California, during which time she also wrote, directed and produced numerous short films. Since USC, Laurel has worked for eight years in the film and television industry in Los Angeles. After a stint at Sony Pictures, she spent two years with a senior TV literary agent, working with top TV writers and showrunners (for shows like 24, That 70’s Show, Dexter, and The Practice). She then worked for five years on the hit TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation for lead actor and Executive Producer William Petersen, later becoming Director of Development for his production company, High Horse Films. Laurel has also optioned a feature-length screenplay, and worked with an independent producer on adapting a book for the screen. Additionally, she is the recipient of the Marguerite Roberts Award for Women in Film.
TOM DIBBLE, MFA email
Regis University Lead Faculty, Screenwriting, CCA Adjunct Instructor
After working for former Prime Minister Tony Blair, Tom started out his
Hollywood career being mentored by legendary screenwriter, Lawrence
Kasdan. He has sold, optioned, and is currently in development on a
variety of projects. He is an MFA graduate from USC's School of Cinematic
Arts where he won the David Lean Foundation Award and Hollywood Foreign
Press Scholarship. He has been profiled in Creative Screenwriting
Magazine and is a member of the Writers Guild of America.
lynnsey dunson email
Webmaster, Graphic Designer, Photographer
Bio and picture coming soon.
SANDRA GABRYCH, MFA email
 Chair & Associate Professor
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Film & Video Production
Regis University
Sandra received her Master of Fine Arts in Film and Television Producing from Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, and a Bachelors of Science in Communications, Television/Radio Production from Bradley University.
Sandra began her career at Miramax Films working in the Marketing and Promotions department on several films including: Chicago, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, Shall We Dance, Jersey Girl, Duplex, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. Sandra went on to the Story Department at Columbia Pictures working on such films as Big Fish. After Columbia, Sandra stayed on the Sony Pictures lot working in development at Wendy Finerman Productions (Forrest Gump) assisting Wendy Finerman while in development on The Devil Wears Prada, and P.S. I Love You. From the lot, Sandra worked at top Hollywood agency, International Creative Management in the TV Literary Department working with such writers as Anne Cofell Saunders (Battlestar Galactica), Ant Hines (Borat, Da Ali G Show), and Dan Knauf (Carnivale).
As an independent filmmaker, Sandra received great acclaim for the short film she produced, All That You Love, based on the short story written by Stephen King. Sandra has also produced/directed several award winning films including the documentary In Times of War, inducted into the United States Library of Congress. Sandra is presently writing/directing/producing several independent and Hollywood narrative, documentary, and animation projects.
Sandra is currently the Chair and Associate Professor for the Film/Video Bachelor of Fine Arts program at Regis University/Colorado Film School. Sandra was awarded Faculty of the Year in 2010, and has taught film/video course work at the University of Denver, University of Colorado at Denver and Los Angeles Community College.
KYLE HARRIS, MFA email
CCA Adjunct Instructor, Regis Affiliate Faculty
Kyle Harris is an independent filmmaker, curator, writer, and instructor at the Colorado Film School. He received his Masters of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His award-winning videos have been exhibited on television, in galleries and museums, and in film festivals including The Chicago Underground Film Festival, The Athens International Film Festival, The International Festival of New Film in Split, Croatia, and at Anthology Film Archives.
Serving as a Board Member, Acquisitions Manager and Interim Programming Director at Free Speech TV, he curated and produced documentaries and news series and programs. His writings about film and video have appeared in publications such as The Journal of Film and Philosophy, Clamor Magazine, and Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority. He serves on the Board of Directors for Working Films and has served on the board of Public Communicators Incorporated and The Colorado Anti-Violence Program. He has facilitated film and video workshops and classes at Columbia College, Video Machete, Chicago’s After-School Matters, and spoken on panels at ImagineNative, Frameline, Allied Media Conference, and The United States Social Forum. Since 2000, he has collaborated with Independent Media Centers in Chicago, New York, Denver, Atlanta, and Miami and in 2001 co-founded and curated Discount Cinema, a Chicago-based, nomadic microcinema.
He is currently in production on a documentary about the Underground Syringe Exchange of Denver and developing a documentary about the land-rights struggles of acequia farmers in the San Luis Valley.
WILL HICKS, MFA email
CCA Assistant Professor, Writing/Producing 
Will With over a hundred professional credits, Will is experienced in nearly every aspect of motion picture, television and
commercial production.
As a working screenwriter and multiple award-winning filmmaker, Will has developed projects with the former head of 20th Century Fox and the president of the William Morris Agency; and has worked alongside numerous Academy Award winning producers, directors, actors and cinematographers. Currently Will is adapting a novel, developing a romantic comedy with an Los Angeles-based production company and writing a textbook on character-based film narrative.
As a professional educator, Will was voted 2004-2005 Teacher of the Year and his former students have won or placed in numerous festivals and screenwriting competitions.
Will holds an MFA in Screenwriting from Hollins University and will talk to you forever on character design and structural narrative if you get him started.
Will is also CCA Faculty of the year 2011! Congratulations, Will!
JERRY HOFMANN email
CCA Adjunct Instructor , Regis Affiliate Faculty
During his 33-year professional show business career, Jerry Hofmann has become an award winning theatrical actor, TV and film editor, writer, director and producer. Over the years, he has produced hundreds of TV commercials, and industrial films for Fortune 500 companies, Hollywood studios and advertising agencies. He currently owns and operates jlh productions in Aurora, Colorado.
A true pioneer in the technology of non-linear editing, Jerry received one of the first Avid non-linear disk based editors in Los Angeles.
He is a team leader in the Final Cut Pro forum at www.creativecow.net, and is the leading contributor to Apple Computer's own discussion group for Final Cut Pro. He is an Apple Professional Applications Certified Instructor. Jerry help to found the Denver Final Cut Pro user’s group, and is in demand for teaching and speaking engagements nationwide.
New Riders Publishing publishes Jerry’s recently published book "Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4".
Jerry holds a B.A. in Theatre, and a B.A. in Mass Communications emphasis on Film and TV Production from the University of Denver.
ANDREW HOUSTON email
CCA Adjunct Instructor
Bio and picture coming soon.
JEFF HOWARD, MFA email
 CCA Adjunct Instructor
An MFA in theater arts from Brandeis University led to a twenty-five year career in Hollywood. Jeff began as an assistant art director for One Day At A Time then moved to assisting preeminent production designers Bob Boyle, Richard MacDonald, Brian Eatwell and Tom John. Later he assumed the role of art director for all west coast TV commercial production at EUE/Screen Gems.
He worked as art director for the first two years of Miami Vice (EMMY award for best art direction). His production design credits now include: Love & Basketball, Eve's Bayou, Switchback, Little Big League, Pure Country, Talent For The Game, Major League, Clara's Heart and Baby Boom.
EDWARD KRAMER, MA email
Regis Affiliate Faculty
Before moving to Denver, Visual Effects artist Ed Kramer spent 12 years as Senior Technical Director at Industrial Light + Magic, doing CGI lighting and effects work for STAR WARS Episodes I, II, and III, as well as such classics as Jumanji, The Perfect Storm, Harry Potter II,Twister, Van Helsing, Herbie Fully Loaded, and Jurassic Park II: The Lost World. He developed the techniques and supervised the "Scarab Beetle" shots in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, the "Rock Monster" shots in Galaxy Quest, the "Droid Factory" shots for Episode II: Attack of the Clones and did lighting and creature development work for the "Kraken" from OSCAR-winner Pirates of the Caribbean 2. Prior to ILM, he worked on Stargate, Clear and Present Danger and animated the "Lady with a Torch" logo scene at the beginning of every Columbia Pictures movie.
Before his film career, Ed worked as Senior Animator at Post Production facilities in New York, Hollywood and Atlanta, and spent a year animating for the space program at NASA in Houston. In Denver he worked on projects for game developer Ubisoft and a 2-hour special for the Discovery Channel, as well as doing CGI modeling and animating for cutting-edge Simulators designed to train surgeons on the latest surgical techniques.
FREDERIC LAHEY, MFA email
 Director, Professor, Regis Affiliate Faculty
Frederic Lahey holds a BA in Philosophy and an MFA in Film, Writing/Directing from Columbia University in the City of New York. He is the founder and Director of the Colorado Film School, and has created professional training programs in film and video for Red Rocks Community College, University of Colorado Denver, Community College of Aurora, and Regis University.
Frederic has directed such actors as Margaret Whitton (Major League, The Man Without A Face), Olek Krupa (Burn After Reading, Home Alone 3, Behind Enemy Lines), Zoe Tamerlis Lund (Bad Lieutenant, Ms. 45), Julian Beck (Cotton Club, Poltergeist II), and Will Patton (Remember the Titans, Armegeddon, The Postman). His work has appeared on most national broadcast, and international cable outlets.
In 2008-09, his work for clients earned three Telly Awards, and a National Business Association Stevie Award, while a video collaboration with the Andrew Skeels (Colorado Ballet)in a presentation of his choreography Parched at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, led to his video Parched Platte that was presented at the H2O On Film festival, an international, juried exhibition in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
steve mckissen email
CCA Adjunct Instructor
Bio and picture coming soon.
MARGARET NORWOOD, MFA email
Regis University Lead Faculty, Production, CCA Adjunct Instructor
 Margaret is an extremely diverse and accomplished filmmaker. After receiving her MFA from Western Illinois University, she worked for many years as an actress in New York and DC. Her credits include leading roles in Shakespeare, Greek tragedies, dramatic and experimental works from new playwrights, comic and dramatic roles on the screen, as well as many professional singing engagements. In 2003, she formed Baby Lion Productions, LLC, and wrote, produced and edited her first feature film, independence. Since then, she has produced and directed both narrative and documentary projects and has worked as a freelance editor, colorist and website designer. Her edit of the feature film Stained Glass Windows was recently acquired by Celebrity Video, and her edit of In Times of War: Stories of Colorado Veterans won the 2010 Best Short Documentary award at the Estes Park Film Festival and the Colorado Spotlight Award at the Indie Spirit Film Festival, Colorado Springs. She teaches editing, post-production, effects and acting for the screen at Colorado Film School and teaches Advanced Production at Regis.
matthew norwood email
CCA Adjunct Instructor
DIRK OLSON email
CCA Adjunct Instructor
 Dirk Olson is an award winning television producer and director. His films and specials have aired on PBS, BBC, Bravo, A&E, HDNet, CBC and networks worldwide.
The breadth of his work spans documentary and narrative filmmaking with subjects including the performing arts, sports, music, science and history. His experience includes commercials, multi-camera studio, and location production throughout the U.S. and abroad.
He is the recipient of numerous awards including CINE Golden Eagles, Regional Emmys, Tellys, Worldfests, The NY Festivals, PRSA, Gold Camera and the Cable Ace. He launched and guided Denver Center Media, the teleproduction and recording studio at The Denver Center for the Performing Arts and is the Outreach & Membership Chair of the National Television Academy-Heartland Chapter. He teaches MFA-level, TV/Film Acting at the National Theatre Conservatory.
SCOTT PARK email
 Software Architect
Scott attended the Colorado Film School and graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts - Film Production degree (emphasis in cinematography) from the University of Colorado at Denver.
His cinematography has been shown in festivals including the Denver International Film Festival (Unstoppable directed by Gregg Stouffer and To Fall directed by Lori Andrews) and the First Look Student Film Festival (The Chip directed by himself) and the Zompire Film Festival (Aces and Eights directed by Matt Allen).
Scott splits his time between working at LSI (Lighting Services, Inc.), administering EQ, and freelancing on local film and video productions.
He is currently developing an original television series.
CCA Adjunct Instructor
 Tony Pfau is a respected member of Colorado’s film community and an award winning film producer -director – DP. Just like many, he started out being named, “don’t touch that!”, but, having been mentored by some of the best in the business, he evolved and developed a strong production background and found himself doing big projects early in his career.
He carries with him the philosophy that “there isn’t anything anyone can think up that we can’t get to the screen, we’re in a figure it out business.”
During the last 3 decades, he has logged well over 1500 professional shooting days, has managed millions of dollars in production. He has produced tricky, if not seemingly impossible projects, that went off without a hitch. Working with Ginsburg Productions in the 80’s, he developed some of the first live action VR hybrids, before it was easy.
Tony brings this tremendous experience to share with budding filmmakers.
He has shot through out the USA and Canada doing features, national commercials, numerous corporate communications, documentaries, music videos, festival shorts and more. The low budget indie mode is no stranger either. He has tremendous experience working with aerial camera systems and production.
He has worked on the following studio pictures shot in Colorado in various departments; “Switchback”, “Catch and Release”, “Imagine That”, “Asteroid”, “Three Ninjas at Magic Mountain”. He has other independent film credits for, “Fast Food Nation’ and “Moosie”, “Fairy Fort”, “Death of a Romance”, NBC’s Olympics promo “Frozen Joe”.
Among his awards, he has a CINE Golden Eagle, BPAA Gold Key, Herme's Gold (DIR/DP), a Telly, numerous Alfie awards, a Flame award, National Cable Broadcasters Award (DIR/DP). He was listed in the Who's Who in Entertainment in 1987.
He has lived and worked in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Austin Texas, and now resides back in Colorado happily married and has a real estate business as well.
His production company AVPfilms LLC has been in business since 1986. (formerly AVP Production) Demos of his work can be seen at www.avpfilms.net.
He is currently developing independent ventures and sharing his experience teaching the film production classes at Colorado Film School.
tim ryerson email
CCA Adjunct Instructor
anna salim, mfa email
Regis Affiliate Faculty
Anna Salim received her MFA in Film and Television Production from Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, and a BA in Arts Administration from Lewis & Clark College. She has successfully produced many award winning and critically acclaimed student and independent short films. Her television experience includes managing aspects of operations, finance, business affairs, production and post-production for numerous television series and movies. She has taught writing and production at the Colorado Film School and Regis University and consults students and professional short filmmakers on festival submissions. While continuing to develop several projects with her production company 56 Films, Anna is the Event Manager for Downtown Boulder, sits on the City of Boulder’s Arts Commission, the board for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and the selection committee and jury for the Boulder International Film Festival.
VERONICA SANCHEZ email
Administrative Assistant
Veronica earned a B.F.A. with an emphasis in Writing/Directing for Film/Video from the University of Colorado at Denver and is currently the Administrative Assistant at Colorado Film School.
SCOTT VANORDSTRAND email
 CCA Adjunct Instructor, IT Manager
Scott has over 15 years in news/reality television having spent 8 years with local newscasts, 2 additional years shooting for network shows including ABC News, 20/20, NBC News, Dateline, RTL (German network) Magazin das Explosiv, various corporate shoots and national cable network shows. He has worked in several markets including Alaska, Seattle, Virginia and Colorado in a variety of Environments including subzero weather while shooting the Iditarod Sled Dog race in Alaska.
Recently he spent four years shooting for Spirit of Colorado for Rocky Mountain PBS, a Heartland Regional Emmy Award winning show, as well as working on Emmy award winning specials for RMPBS including Trains of the American West, Ski: A Century of Colorado Skiing and most recently Jewel of the Rockies a documentary on the history of the Air Force Academy. Scott is the recipient of seven Heartland Regional Emmys. He also has various National Press Photographers Association awards including several 1st Place quarterly clip contests and local press photographer awards.
Currently, Scott is the Technology Manager for the Colorado Film School. Additionally, Scott has been called upon to teach several courses on the technical aspects of film, high-definition video, and lighting. Additionally, he provides support for the digital television broadcast infrastructure at CFS.
In his current position, Scott has been DP and Associate Producer on several client projects for the school including promotion videos for the Community College of Aurora Foundation, Martin Luther King Early College and the Colorado Film School's very own promo video. During his career, Scott has been called upon to be a DP, camera operator, producer, director, and technical expert in use of various video and film equipment. He has even been a casting director!
Scott is a Denver native having earned a degree in Television Production Management from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
LAFFREY WITBROD email
Equipment Room Supervisor
Laffrey Witbrod is a cinematographer, gaffer and colorist with over ten years of freelance experience. Recent work includes cinematography on the feature film, Pearman, shot on location in Denver in the summer of 2009.
Laffrey studied Cinematography at the Colorado Film School (CFS). While getting his BFA in filmmaking, he studied lighting with Ric Waite ASC. During his time at CFS he worked on many award winning short films, including The Herald, Taken, and Ropies.
Laffrey grew up in the mountains of Montana, where he was home-schooled until high school when he started public school. Between the ages of three and six, he appeared in some of the first live action videos developed especially for toddlers, produced by Bo Peep Productions. Since his mother, aunt and grandmother were developing these videos, he was exposed to many aspects of video production during these early years.
Later his family bought a home video camera and Laffrey started making his own movies. At the age of 14, he was able to purchase his own camera by filming local events and distributing them to parents.
Today he has shot in countries around the world and has experience with both narrative and documentary filmmaking. To see example of his work visit www.laffreywitbrod.com.
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