Full-Time
Editing Faculty
Paul Hettel,
Program Director phettel@colum.edu.
Filmmaker, screenwriter and Professor Film and Video at Columbia since
1981. Writer and director of numerous short films and two feature films:
Terminal Moraine -- filmmed on location in Italy and his most
recent feature Sound of Yellow filmed in Lodz, Poland. His areas
of specialization are: Production, Editing, Screenwriting and Italian
Cinema.
Brigid Maher
bmaher@colum.edu
Co-founder and president of Tiny Leaps Productions -- a non profit arts
organization, she has directed film and theater productions in the U.S.,
the West Bank and Oman. Recently, she wrote, directed and edited the
feature film Adrift in the Heartland -- shot in Palestine and
Chicago. Her short films have been featured on PBS (Image Union) and
the National Poetry Video Festival while winning recognition and funding
from the Anti-Defamation League, City of Chicago, Marshall Center for
the Arts and the Washington Commission for the Humanities.
Sharon Zurek
szurek@colum.edu
BA, Columbia College. During her 25 years experience producing, directing
and editing, she has won funding and a variety of awards for her independent
and professional work. As the owner of Black Cat Productions in Chicago,
she recently produced and directed Kevin's Room a one-hour dramatic
film that premiered on UPN-TV. She was also the editor on several independent
feature films, including Stray Dogs, Constructing Mulligan's Stew, The
Chameleon and The Orphan Saint.
Partial
List of Part-Time Faculty:
Dennis Keeling
dkeeling@colum.edu
As Post-Production Manager, Dennis oversees the operation of the Post-Production
Center. His interests focus on Avid editing, Telecine and the operation
of the Machine room. Dennis teaches Advanced Editing: Avid Media and
Film Composer and Production IV: Avid Xpress. Dennis is a graduate of
the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in
Radio, TV and Film. He also holds a Master of Fine Art degree in Film/Video
from Columbia College-Chicago.
Bryan McHenry,
Advanced Editing Coordinator bmchenry@colum.edu
Bryan McHenry grew up in Memphis, TN where he earned a Master's of Music
in Voice. He sang for three seasons with Opera Memphis, during which
time he began directing. He is currently a graduate student and full-time
employee of The Post Production Center of The Film and Video Department
at Columbia College, Chicago. Two of the films he has made while at
Columbia, DRAWING GIRLS, and THE CUCUMBER CHRONICLES have played in
gay and lesbian film festivals world wide, including Chicago, New York,
Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Toronto, and Milan.
Nikola Vlahovich
nvlahovich@colum.edu
Coming from a background of Psychology and Human Development before
getting into film, his focus is on understanding and integrating the
way the mind perceives with how stories are told. He came to the Post
Production Center from the Documentary Center where he was the technical
coordinator. Currently he's in post production working on a documentary
about the oral tradition of the Lakota Sioux through the teachings of
a Lakota Medicine man. He also teaches Editing the Narrative Film and
Editing the Documentary part-time at Columbia in the Film/ Department.
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