Faculty

• Directing

  • • 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.

  Writing

  • • 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.

    • Frank Patterson

      

      Professor Frank Patterson serves as the Dean of the Florida State University College of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts.

  Producing

  • • Paul Cohen

      

      Paul Cohen is an independent motion picture executive, who has created a number of successful distribution and production companies including Analysis Films, Masada Production, Moonbeam Productions, and Aries Films. He has acquired and marketed 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.

    • Geoffrey Gilmore

      

      Geoffrey Gilmore is the Creative Director of Tribeca Enterprises, a New York company that includes the Tribeca Film Festival, the Tribeca Cinemas and the Tribeca Film Festival Doha. He joins Tribeca after serving 19 years as the Director of the Sundance Film Festival, where he was responsible for film selection in all sections of the Festival, as well as managing the Festival and providing overall artistic direction.

    • 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.

  Cinematography

  • • 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.

  Editing

  Production

  • • Jed Kaleko

      

      Jed Kaleko is a veteran of more than 13 years of stage design and set construction.

    • Andrew Syder

      

      Andrew Syder is a digital media artist and a scholar of film and new media serving as an Assistant Professor in the Film School.

  Sound

  • • 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.

  History and Theory

  • • 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.

Administration

• • Frank Patterson

    

    Professor Frank Patterson serves as the Dean of the Florida State University College of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts.

  • Fred Salancy

    

    Fred Salancy serves as Assistant Dean in the Florida State University College of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Staff

• • 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.

  • Ebonee Rudolph

    As Assistant to the Associate Dean, Ebonee 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.

  • Sandra Howard

    

    Sandra Howard is the academic advisor for all film majors enrolled in the undergraduate program, and serves as the Undergraduate Coordinator. Sandra also assists prospective undergraduate students through the application process.

  • Brenda Mills

    

    Brenda 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.

  • Tony Ciarlariello

    

    Tony manages the Film School's day-to-day supervision and coordination of student pre-production, production, and post-production.

  • Ian Weir

    

    Ian is serving as Post Production Specialist at the Film School providing technical support to faculty and staff relative to film production, and instructional support to students in the aspects of picture and sound editing and sound design.

  • Thomas Gast

    

    Thomas is serving as Post Production Supervisor at the Film School providing technical support to faculty, staff and students relative to film production.

  • 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.

  • Jim Green

    

    As Senior Engineering Technician/Designer, Jim Green maintains and repairs all production and post-production equipment.

  • 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.

  • 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.