FACULTY/STAFF LIST

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 email

CCA Adjunct Instructor

Amelia Alighieri began developing and teaching film studies more than a decade 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, 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 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.

Mel aman email

CCA Adjunct Instructor

Mel Aman has worked over a decade as a producer in the film and television industry in New York, Los Angeles and currently in Denver. Recent career highlights include: Disney Baby Einstein Series, “I want to Save your Life” reality series for WE (Women’s Entertainment), and “The Hip Hop Project” presented by Bruce Willis and Queen Latifah, which was theatrically released in 2005 by ThinkFilms and has been featured on the Sundance Channel with the DVD scheduled for 2010. Mel teaches production at the Colorado Film School and is a graduate of NYU, Tisch School of the Arts Film & TV production program.

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 five 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.

BILL BROWN, MBA email

CCA Adjunct Instructor

William L. Brown, M.B.A. has an undergraduate degree in film/video production with an emphasis in writing/directing and a masters in business in international business with certification in entrepreneurship.

He just finished production on his first feature film, Pathways and has had other works featured in the Denver International Film Festival.

AARON BURNS 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.

JUSTIN DAVIS email

CCA Adjunct Instructor

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."

jeff davenport email

CCA Adjunct Instructor

Jeff Davenport earned himself an MFA in Script and Screenwriting from the University of Southern California in 2000 where he received the Harold Lloyd Scholarship for screenwriting. After graduation, Jeff provided script coverage for Tollin/Robbins Productions and had an article he'd written about Steven Soderbergh published in a national journal. Recently, Jeff has worked as a script consultant and writer for a television production company. He and his writing partner have written a two hour backdoor pilot that will air on NBC in July 2010. Jeff and his nurse-wife live in Westminster where they rewatch "Lost" and "Mad Men" at nauseam, and where Jeff nurtures his lifelong crush on Alfred Hitchcock. Also, Jeff finds it uncomfortable writing about himself in the third person.

TOM DELAPA email

CCA Adjunct Instructor

Has taught and developed undergraduate film studies courses at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Denver, the University of Denver, Regis University, and the Colorado Film School.  An active film critic, he has written on film and the arts for such publications as the Chicago Tribune, Westword (Denver), Boulder Weekly, and Fort Collins Now.  He has curated regular film programs at the Denver Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art-Denver. In 2006, he received first- and second-place awards from the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for Arts and Entertainment Criticism.  He has been film critic for such National Public Radio affiliates as WBEZ-FM in Chicago and KUVO-FM in Denver. 

His past work in the film and television field includes 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.

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.

TOM DIBBLE email

CCA Adjunct Instructor, Regis Affiliate Faculty

Tom came to Hollywood from the UK in 2001 to earn his MFA in Screenwriting from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.  While there, he won the David Lean Foundation Award and Hollywood Foreign Press Scholarship.

Before that, Tom worked for then Prime Minister Tony Blair, writing jokes for his speeches, amongst other, more demanding, activities.

Following USC, Tom was mentored for a year by legendary screenwriter, Lawrence Kasdan.  Tom has sold and optioned a variety of feature projects, and continues to pursue an active career in Hollywood.  He is a member of the Writers Guild of America. 

jim furrer email

CCA Adjunct Instructor

Jim Furrer's career spans over thirty-five years in broadcast television and radio, film, corporate video, live theatre, concert music and still photography. As Director of Photography he filmed the features "Raising The Stakes", "Sign Of The Times", "Moosie", "Behind The Mask", “When I Hear Thunder” plus television pilots "Class" and "Alex and Jody". 

Active in concert and home video music projects, Jim filmed "Ringo Starr So Far" plus the live film concert "Chris Botti In Concert" for cable and DVD.  Other concert videos include .38 Special, 311, Bad Company, Chris Botti, Counting Crows, Cracker, John Denver, Devo, Del Amitri, Mary Chapin-Carpenter, Gloria Estefan, Fleetwood Mac, Sonia Dada, Shaun Colvin, Ray Charles, Leo Kottke, Little Steven, Rolling Stones, Sting, Sun 60, Widespread Panic and ZZ Top.  He was one of five cameramen selected for "Under A Blood Red Sky; U-2 At Red Rocks" taped on location at Red Rocks for British TV's "The Tube".

His national commercial spot clients include Bell South, Dish Network, DirecTV, Delicato Vineyards, Echostar, Maaco, Raid, Starz, TIAA-Cref, and many others. 

Jim won a Emmy for the PBS short subject "The First Cowboy's Fall From Grace".  Other major works include “Walking With Dinosaurs”, the cable series “Three Minutes To Impact" for Discovery and "Leonard Maltin Presents" for Hallmark; “Making Sense of the Sixties” for PBS, "Ancient Voices" in high definition for the Colorado History Museum and "Of Angels and Light" for HD Net and Denver Center Media.

From 1984 to 1990 he taught and unit-managed classes at the International Film and Television Workshops in Rockport, Maine plus production classes at MTI in Golden, Colorado.  Currently one of the associate faculty at Metro State College in Denver and adjunct faculty at the Colorado Film School, Jim lives with his wife Lynne in Littleton and pursues large format traditional silver-gelatin black-and-white still photography in his spare time.

SANDRA GABRYCH, MFA email

CCA Assistant Professor, Program Coordinator, Regis Affiliate Faculty

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 received great acclaim for the short film she produced, All That You Love, based on the short story written by Stephen King. The film was awarded Best Picture at the Chapman Cecil Awards and was Official Selection at the 2005 Vail, Newport Beach, Temecula Valley International, Zion Independent, Stephen King Short Movies, Dollar Babies Film Festivals, and the Direct From The Mailroom screening, as well as the 2006 Whistler, Connecticut, and Fresno Film Festivals. Sandra has also produced several other short films including Inspiring Charles Dickens, which won the Grand Festival Award at the Berkley Film/Video Festival.

Sandra began her career at Miramax Films working in the Marketing and Promotions department on several films including: The Aviator, Shall We Dance, Chicago, Duplex, Gangs of New York, Scary Movie 3, and Havana Nights as well as organizing and promoting several movie premieres, the Max Awards, and the 2003 Oscar party in which Chicago won Best Picture. Sandra went on to work in the Story Department at Columbia Pictures under Story Editor Andrew Dodge and corresponded with executives including Amy Pascal and Amy Baer. 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.

Sandra also worked in the TV Literary Department at top five agency International Creative Management/The Broder Webb Chervin Silbermann Agency, under TV literary agent Pete Stone, working with such writers as Anne Cofell Saunders (Battlestar Galactica), Ant Hines (Borat, Da Ali G Show), and Dan Knauf (Carnivale). In addition, Sandra worked as a freelance story analyst for several prominent producers in the industry including Maureen Peyrot (A Beautiful Mind), and also worked for the NATPE Conference and TV Producers Bootcamp organizing and managing VIP speaking in sessions and production including Dick Wolf, Ted Koppel, Pat O’Brien and George Gray; organized and oversaw the "Pitch Me! Competition" and "Pitch Opps".

Sandra is currently Program Coordinator and Writing/Producing Faculty at the Colorado Film School. Sandra began her higher education teaching career in the Los Angeles Community College District as a Film and Television Intern Instructor. Sandra teaches both Producing and Writing courses including Short Script Writing, Short Script Analysis, Intro to Film/Video Writing, Intermediate Screenwriting, Advanced Screenwriting, Advanced Feature Script Analysis, Production Preparation, and Producing I. Sandra founded the Filmmaker Conference Call Program interviewing writers such as Jack Epps Jr. (Top Gun, Dick Tracy).

Sandra is also an Independent Film and Video Writer/Producer presently working on several commercials and videos, as well as developing numerous short and feature narrative, animated, and documentary productions. She is currently writing a book on short script analysis and founding a script analysis reader company.

JESSE GARRISON email

Webmaster, Graphic Designer, Social Media Manager

Jesse has five years of freelance web development experience and is currently the webmaster at the Colorado Film School. He is also helping to develop and maintain social networking and outreach through YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and whatever may be next.

Jesse is originally from the northwest corner of Montana. While living there he served on the board of the Sunburst Community Service Foundation, an organization dedicated to bringing the arts and social services to rural Montana. While volunteering for Sunburst, Jesse helped break fundraising records for their scholarship fund making is possible for more students to achieve their goals and follow their dreams.

Jesse recently graduated Cum Laude from the Community College of Aurora.

KYLE HARRIS 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.

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

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.

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

greg nemer email

CCA Adjunct Instructor

MARGARET NORWOOD, MFA email

CCA Adjunct Instructor, Regis Affiliate Faculty

Margaret holds an MFA in acting, from Western Illinois University and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Hastings College.

She worked as an actor in New York (and Washington DC) for many years where she performed lots of Greek tragedies and Shakespearian comedies as well as works by many new experimental artists. Every now and then, she’d do a musical - for luck. If you’re interested in one version of the list, it’s at www.margaretnorwood.com.

Margaret started Baby Lion Productions in New York in 2003. She made several short films in New York as well as a feature length movie called independence which premiered at the Omaha Film Festival in 2007. Her company’s website (complete with fun trailer and music and pictures) is at www.babylionproductions.com.

Margaret has been working as a writer/producer/editor in Denver since 2007. She currently teaches post production and editing at the Colorado Film School.

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.

tony pfau email

CCA Adjunct Instructor

anna salim, mfa email

Regis Affiliate Faculty

Anna received her Master of Fine Arts in Film and Television Production from Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, and a Bachelors of Arts in Arts Administration from Lewis & Clark College. She has successfully produced numerous award winning and critically acclaimed short films. Son Up, a regional finalist for the Student Academy Awards, won awards and accolades at festivals including Palm Springs Shorts Fest, the Harlem Film Festival and CineQuest. Peter’s Price received Rogue Cinema Magazine’s 2006 Excellence in Cinema Award and received rave reviews from Combustible Celluloid; Hollywood is Talking and Film Threat (among others). It played at festivals such as Temecula Valley International, Hollywood Shorts Fest and the San Francisco International Film Festival.

Anna also worked for Canadian/US television production company Blueprint Entertainment. In her role as Operations Coordinator she managed aspects of operations, finance, business affairs, production and post-production for numerous series and movies. These include television series Whistler (CTV/The N), The Best Years (Global/The N), Til Death Do Us Part (Global/truTV) and Kenny vs. Spenny (Showcase/Comedy Central) and TV movies such as Absolution (Global/Lifetime), starring Samantha Mathis, Playing House (CTV/Lifetime) and How I Married My High School Crush (Global/Lifetime). She also worked with producer Frank Saperstein (Ren & Stimpy, Pee-Wee’s Playhouse) developing animation and children’s programming, including The Dating Guy (Teletoon).

Anna is currently Production/Post Production Faculty at the Colorado Film School. She also continues to work with her LA/Colorado based production company 56 Films, presently developing several feature narrative and television productions.

SUE SALINGER, MFA email

CCA Adjunct Instructor

Salinger is a reformed 20+ year veteran of mainstream media with national and international experience in radio, broadcast, cable, theatrical film, and syndicated programming. "Reformed" means media activist, and Salinger no longer works for commercial media, choosing instead to work in the space where audio and visual representation becomes direct action. Salinger is a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School, where she is studying media and technology philosophy with the world's leading philosophers and filmmakers including: Jean Baudrillard, Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Nancy, Georgio Agamben, and Claude Lanzman.

Salinger's current project is an experiment in participatory media, culling stories from real people involved in local-level social change that are intended to incite political engagement (i.e, democracy). Her show SourceCode is seen by 25 million people on the Dish Network and across 175 community television channels on the not-for-profit Free Speech TV.

Salinger's recent projects include documenting His Holiness, the Dalai Lama's Dharamsala meetings with scientists and psychologists, and developing the Naropa Archive Project, which has digitized 1200 hours of audio and video from Allen Ginsberg's 30 year project at the Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and made it available on the web (www.archive.org).

Her current obsession is in archive, museum, and library theory for moving images; that is, in the digital performance of history.

Sue is currently on sabbatical until Fall 2010.

VERONICA SANCHEZ email

Administrative Assistant

LAUREN SIENKIEWICZ email

CCA Adjunct Instructor

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.