Faculty

Moving Image Arts (Film/Video) Faculty

Chris Eyre
Chair, Moving Image Arts Department

MFA, New York University
BA, University of Arizona

Chris Eyre is a nationally-recognized film and television director and producer, who has received many awards, including both a Peabody and an Emmy. Eyre directed the highly acclaimed Smoke Signals, which won a coveted Sundance Audience Award and the Sundance Filmmakers Trophy.

After graduating from New York University’s film school, Eyre worked as a fellow in the Sundance Institute’s Directors Lab under the mentorship of Robert Redford. His 2004 film Edge of America was selected to show on Opening Night at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, and it garnered Eyre the highly prestigious award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement from the Directors Guild of America. His latest film, Hideaway, starring Josh Lucas and James Cromwell, is due for release in May 2012.

Eyre’s work for television includes three episodes of the PBS miniseries We Shall Remain (2009)—“After the Mayflower,” “Tecumseh’s Vision” and “Trail of Tears.” He also directed episodes of the critically acclaimed NBC show Friday Night Lights (2009 and 2011).

Eyre has received a Rockefeller Foundation Intercultural Film Fellowship, an NHK/Sundance Cinema 100 Award, the Martin Scorsese Post-Production Award, a Humanitas Prize, the Warner Brothers Post-Production Award, a United States Artists fellowship, an Independent Spirit Award, multiple First Americans in the Arts awards and multiple Best Film awards at the American Indian Film Festival.

Paula Amanda
Assistant Chair, Moving Image Arts Department
Director, Garson Studios
Internship Coordinator, MOV

BA, University of California, Los Angeles
JD, University of Santa Clara, CA
BFA, College of Santa Fe (now Santa Fe University of Art and Design)

Paula is also Director of Garson Studios and since 2006 been responsible for the daily operation and security of the Garson Studios soundstages during commercial productions. She has stage-managed multiple features, including "Legion," North Country," "Brothers" , "Paul", the new "True Grit' and "Cowboys and Aliens." Amanda also acts as the Internship Coordinator for all film related internships.

Amanda is also the president and founder of the New West Media Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization that supports local independent and documentary film making efforts and integrates documentary film with the educational system. She has worked in the film industry as a location scout, production coordinator and producer as well as producing her own documentary films.

Terry Borst
Faculty, Moving Image Arts Department

MFA, University of California, Los Angeles
BA, University of California, Berkeley

Writers Guild of America member Terry Borst has worked as a professional screenwriter for more than 20 years. His writing credits include Midnight Runaround (a sequel to Midnight Run, which starred Robert De Niro); the independent film A Private War; many episodes of the popular internationally syndicated television series Bugs; and Wing Commander III and Wing Commander IV (two of the most popular video games of the late '90s).

Borst has been commissioned to write feature-film screenplays for studios and a television series pilot for the BBC. He has performed uncredited script rewrites, optioned and sold screenplays to a variety of independent film and TV producers, and collaborated on the scripting and development of other video games.

Over the past several years, Borst has developed and scripted training simulations for the U.S. Army and for professional firefighters. His work in these areas inspired him to co-author two books about combining classical Hollywood storytelling techniques with game development processes, and these projects led to consulting assignments on cutting-edge intelligent narrative technologies in both the U.S. and UK.

Borst has taught screenwriting at UCLA, USC, and other universities. He recently published Mastering Celtx, the first book about this new screenwriting and preproduction authoring tool. His scholarly interests include the continuing evolution of screenwriting in the 21st century and the convergence of media across multiple platforms.

Harry Mathias
Faculty, Moving Image Arts Department

MA, BA, San Francisco State University

Harry Mathias, nominated for an Academy Award in 1980, was the director of photography on 18 feature films, 21 network TV shows, and 276 commercials. He is schooled in the classical Hollywood movie traditions of cinematography and lighting and has collaborated with some of the greatest names in the industry. His feature film projects have included drama, comedy, action, and special-effects movies. He was also active in the San Francisco avant-garde filmmaking movement. He won a Golden Eagle Award for his documentary about homeless teenagers, Shadow Children.

Equally skilled in digital cinema technology, Mathias was the senior technical executive at NEC Digital Cinema; the founding top executive of Barco digital cinema; director of motion picture technology, worldwide, at Schneider Optics; and senior consultant to four CEOs of Panavision. He is a founding member of the SMPTE DC28 Digital Cinema standards group and also served on the board of the International Cinema Technology Association.

Mathias is author of Electronic Cinematography: Achieving Photographic Control over the Video Image and Cinematografia Electronica; is contributing author (along with former Vice President Al Gore) of HDTV: The Politics, Policies, and Economics of Tomorrow's Television; and is a contributing author to American Cinematographer Manual, American Cinematographer Video Manual, and the SMPTE book Television Image Quality.

Mathias has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Southern California; Stanford University; American University; the American Film Institute; the Swedish Film Institute; and the Directors Guild of America.

Hank Rogerson
Faculty, Moving Image Arts Department

BA, Dartmouth College

Hank Rogerson is a director, writer, and actor who works in both fiction and nonfiction film. His film Shakespeare Behind Bars had its world premiere in the documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival. The film picked up 11 awards on the festival circuit, was broadcast worldwide, and had a theatrical run of more than 25 U.S. cities. Rogerson also co-produced, directed, and edited Homeland, an award-winning PBS documentary about four families on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, as well as "Circle of Stories," a multimedia project that brings to life the vibrant art of Native American storytelling online on www.pbs.org. He recently completed the film version of "Circle of Stories," an educational DVD that had its world premiere in San Francisco in 2010 as part of the Bioneers Conference (an international conference on solutions to environmental and social problems).

Rogerson has also worked as a freelance writer, director, and producer within the film industry and is a two-time Sundance Institute Fellow. His freelance work has included directing, writing, and producing for Discovery Channel and NBC. As an actor, Rogerson has appeared in films, television shows, commercials, and theatre productions. Most recently, he acted in the television shows In Plain Sight, Crash, and ABC's Scoundrels.

Rogerson has taught filmmaking at the University of California, the Sundance Institute, and workshops around the United States.

Brad Wolfley
Faculty, Moving Image Arts Department

MA, MFA, Rutgers University
BUS, the University of New Mexico

Brad Wolfley is an award-winning editor who has worked on acclaimed films as well as numerous commercial projects for clients including MTV, HBO, ESPN, and Nickelodeon. He has also freelanced as a producer, writer, and director and has won numerous awards for his work on local and national television campaigns. Wolfley's work as an independent filmmaker extends from short narratives to documentaries and experimental films, many of which have garnered awards, including a distinguished fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Wolfley's personal work has screened extensively in festivals around the world. A short film titled "A Poet's Manifesto" screened at Denver's Museum of Contemporary Art as part of a recent biennial. The short "I Am Not a Biscuit" screened at the Santa Fe Film Festival, was invited to screen as an official selection in the Durango Independent Film Festival, and more recently became one of five films to be named a finalist by Mike Judge for Mobifest LA, an event celebrating the best in made-for-mobile animation. "I Am Not a Biscuit" also won the coveted Audience Award for Webcuts, a European online film festival.

Wolfley collaborated with colleagues on The PSA Project, a series of public service announcements that spoke out against the American invasion of Iraq and that had their broadcast premiere on the Sundance Channel. The list of screenings for The PSA Project includes the Berlin Film Festival, New York's Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw's Centre for Contemporary Art, the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Centre Pompidou, and the Walker Art Center.

Most recently, "The Story of an Engine," an animated narrative that explores Wolfley's interest in memory, machines, and our collective construction vis-à-vis the sequencing of image and sound in relation to story, made its world premiere as a finalist in the 2011 Guggenheim YouTube Play, A Biennial of Creative Video.

David Baker
Contributing Faculty, Moving Image Arts Department

BA, University of Denver
MA, New Mexico Highlands University
MFA, New Mexico State University

David James Baker is a teacher, filmmaker, independent multimedia producer, social media activist, and contributing faculty member at Santa Fe University. He began his media career working for The Walt Disney Company as a production technician and media relations specialist. Since then, he has produced documentaries across the United States and in numerous foreign countries, including Portraits of the Southwest, a documentary series shown on public television in New Mexico and Texas. Baker has presented and exhibited his work at the Cancun International Film Festival and at Cinéma du Monde in Rouen, France. He is a partner in The Skyhorse Company and Skyhorse Films, which creates commercial multimedia content for clients nationwide.

Shelene Bridge
Contributing Faculty, Moving Image Arts Department

BA, San Diego State University
BA, College of Santa Fe

Shelene Bridge is an award-winning filmmaker as well as a creative and technically experienced film editor. She has edited narratives, documentaries, commercials, corporate videos, and fundraising videos. Most recently, she served as final editor on the award-winning feature documentary Wild Horses and Renegades and a multimedia project for the Phoenix Art Museum’s exhibition The Bridge at Hoover Dam: Photographs by Jamey Stillings. During her 15-year career in the film industry, she has also been a writer, actor, producer, and director.

Joelle Collier
Contributing Faculty, Moving Image Arts Department

PhD, University of Oregon
MA, BFA, Ohio University

Joelle Collier has spent 25 years in higher education in the arts, holding faculty appointments at Eckerd College, the University of Toledo, and The College of Santa Fe. While she teaches a wide range of courses in film history, theory and criticism, for more than a decade Asian cinema and culture has been her specialty. Her essays on Asian film have been published in the journals Asian Cinema and The Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and anthologized in Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and The New Global Cinema (ed. Gina Marchetti and Tan See Kam). Elected Vice-Chair of the Asian Cinema Studies Society in 2000, she has held that position ever since.

Don Gray
Contributing Faculty, Moving Image Arts Department

BFA, Alfred University

Don Gray is a filmmaker whose work has played in more than 30 film festivals worldwide. His latest film, Delia, won Best Cinematography at the Vegas Media Xpo Film Festival. His movie Things We Do for Love won many festival awards, including Best of Show and Audience Favorite at the Fear No Film Festival, Best Drama at the Dam Short Film Festival, and the People’s Choice Award at the Taos Shortz Film Fest. It was also selected for India’s Kalpanirjhar International Film Festival by the U.S. Embassy in Kolkata, India, as an example of outstanding U.S. filmmaking. Gray worked as a location manager on the movie Beerfest and the television series Wildfire and served as a location scout for True Grit, Terminator Salvation, and Sunshine Cleaning. He is also the contract locations coordinator for the New Mexico State Film Office.

Peter Grendle
Contributing Faculty, Moving Image Arts Department

BA, College of Santa Fe

Peter Grendle started making movies at the age of 13. His low-budget horror films are now distributed on five continents. As manager of The Screen, he thrives on showing the best in world cinema to Santa Fe. Grendle also takes pride in screening the most fun films from world cinema during his after-hours exclusive student screenings. A contributing faculty member at the university, Grendle specializes in micro-budget production, the visual language, and cinema history.

Kent Kirkpatrick
Contributing Faculty Member, Moving Image Arts Department

MFA, University of Wisconsin

Kent Kirkpatrick furthered his professional acting, directing, and movement studies in Japan with Tadashi Suzuki and the Suzuki Company of Toga. He has taught acting or directing at University of California, Irvine, and the University of California, San Diego; the British American Drama Academy at Oxford University; the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; the University of Delaware; Rancho Santiago College; the American Academy of Dramatic Arts–West; and The United World College. He currently serves as director of development with the Santa Fe–based Luminaria Films. He served as associate producer on the feature film Spoken Word (2010), directed by Victor Nunez and starring Ruben Blades and Kuno Becker.

Liam Lockhart
Contributing Faculty, Moving Image Arts Department

BA, University of California, Berkeley
MFA, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television

Liam Lockhart has worked professionally as an editor and sound mixer for international television programming for the past 20 years. He has been nominated for two Emmy Awards for sound mixing, and he received the Cinema Audio Society Award for mixing Flight 93 in 2007. Lockhart serves on the Board of Directors of the Santa Fe Playhouse and both acts and directs for the theatre.