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Faculty & Staff

REGULAR FACULTY

Jen Vaughn

Department Chair
Associate Professor of Movie theater and Goggle box
BA, San Francisco Country University
MA, San Francisco State Academy
Subject: Television Production
(323) 953-4000 ext. 2631
vaughnje@lacitycollege.edu
Website: Jen Vaughn

Jen Vaughn joined the LACC Family unit as a full time Professor in the Cinema/Boob tube Section in Fall 2013.  She teaches multi-camera production courses, editing, television producing and performance techniques.

She holds BA and MA degrees from San Francisco State University where she spent 10 years as Lecturer in the Broadcast and Electronic Communications Arts Department. There she has taught a variety of hands-on television production classes and was Technical Supervisor of a live webcast news program, live-to-record weekly diversity show and weekly sportscast.

Jen worked professionally in Live Broadcast Telly as an Editor and Technical Director for Pac12 Networks.  Jen enjoys producing live streams, directing alive music shoots, and was recently hired to produce the four-twenty-four hour period Live Stream of the Ojai Music Festival.

Christopher Rossiter

Associate Professor of Cinema
MFA, American Pic Establish (AFI)
Subject: Cinematography
chris@christopherrossiter.com
Website: Christopher Rossiter

Christopher Rossiter is a cinematographer ranked member of the International Cinematographers Order (I.C.G.) is also proud to exist a member of Color Social club International (C.S.I.) Prior he worked as a Key Grip and Gaffer for matrimony and non-spousal relationship productions. Christopher has taught cinematography at many programs around the country such as California State Academy, American Film Institute, Los Angeles Film School and has also Led cinematography at National University's MFA in Digital Cinema program and currently Leads the Los Angeles City College'due south cinematography program. Christopher is a graduate of the American Picture show Constitute Conservatory where he earned a Master of Fine Arts caste in Cinematography. He is too a Cinematography member of the Academy of Television receiver Arts and Sciences.

Dylan Shields

Acquaintance Professor of Movie theater
BA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
MFA, American Motion-picture show Found (AFI)
Subjects: Production, Editing, Directed Report
shielddf@lacitycollege.edu

Dylan has been teaching in the LACCD for 10 years and has worked in the manufacture for over 25. He grew up in Owyhee in northern Nevada and attended UNLV where he earned a BA in Moving-picture show Studies. He worked in production in Las Vegas before moving to Los Angeles to attend AFI where he earned an MFA in screenwriting. After working as a writers', producers', and management visitor banana, Dylan produced the indie feature film Half-Life which premiered at Sundance. He went on to piece of work in postproduction at Mod VideoFilm for 7 years. Dylan served as product managing director and line producer on several live multi-photographic camera concert films for the LA Opera and LA Combo, including Gustavo Dudamel's inaugural performance.

Dylan recently produced the department's original Television set/web serial pilot, EmmieThing Goes, along with several brusk films in the AutoPlay serial with the LACC Theater section, including Blue Lapse, which just won the 'Best of Festival' Accolade at BEA'southward 2020 Festival of Media Arts. Dylan co-produced and co-edited the curt documentary Yo Soy Manuel, which has won 'Best Spanish' or 'Foreign Linguistic communication Film' at multiple festivals. He lives in Eagle Stone with his wife, two kids, and two big dogs. He's as well a relatively new fan of the Oxford comma.​

Krystle Klein

Associate Professor of Cinema
BA, Western Michigan Academy
MA, DePaul Academy (Chicago)
Subjects: Directing, Pic Genres, Concern, Idiot box Production

Electronic mail: Kleinkr@laccd.edu
Website: Krystle R. Klein

Krystle Klein, Professor of Cinema/Television receiver, joined the department in 2019. She has a B.A. in Television and Movie Production from Western Michigan Academy, and an 1000.A. in Movie house from DePaul University in Chicago. She has been pedagogy the art of storytelling through moving-picture show and goggle box since 2005.

A producer, writer, director, and editor, Krystle has produced shows for ABC, NBC, Bravo, The Oprah Network, Vh1, and more. She has directed and edited documentary films, and recently authored a book on a filmmaking run a risk through India. She has been working creatively in the entertainment industry since 1999, when she kickoff began equally a radio DJ.

Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Krystle lived in Chicago and Hawai'i before landing for good in Los Angeles. She loves to travel and explore, dabbles in stand-up comedy and yoga, plays the ukulele and the trumpet, and in one case went in front of the camera equally RuPaul transformed her into a drag queen on DragU. Simply above all, she loves to teach, and is constantly in awe of her students' talents and creativity.

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ADJUNCT FACULTY

Arnie Anderson

Cinema Instructor
BA, MFA, University of Southern California (USC)
Bailiwick: Movie theater Sound Product
electric_arnie@hotmail.com

Linda Beal

Telly Instructor
BA, University of California, Irvine
MFA, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
JD, Hastings College of Constabulary
Subject field: Introduction to Television
beallf@lacitycollege.edu

An original Angelino, I've been education Telly and picture palace history classes at LACC for nearly 10 years. Before discovering my passion for the amusement industry, I received a B.A. in Art History from U.C. Irvine, and Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from Hastings College of Law. I proficient law in Atlanta, Ga, before moving dorsum to Los Angeles to pursue an M.F.A. from UCLA'due south Producer's Program in Picture show and Television set. I worked equally a Television set producer on several talk shows that were hosted by such comedic actors as Whoopi Goldberg, Roseanne Barr, Keenen Ivory Wayans and Greg Kinnear. My background in law, entertainment & education has created a perfect blend of my interest in people, penchant for problem solving, dearest of one-act and proud banner every bit a lifelong learner.

Kena Dorsey

Television Instructor
BA, Carnegie-Mellon University - Drama
MFA, New York Film Academy (NYFA) - Filmmaking
dorseykt@lacitycollege.edu

Kena Dorsey is an adjunct professor who has been teaching pic and multi-camera for 7 years. When not at LACC, she is the director of the boob tube production program at a K-12 Independent Schoolhouse where she likewise teaches motion-picture show and telly production. She is besides the Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator at the loftier school, and has adult a number of partnership programs that teaches television and filmmaking to underserved students from public schools in and around Los Angeles. Prior to moving to LA, Kena was a Broadway stage actress that performed in a long list of musicals and plays on and off Broadway. She is an award winning director for two of her original films that she wrote, produced, and directed. She continues to work on independent motion-picture show and editing projects exterior of her teaching schedule.

Doctor James Fleury

Movie house Instructor
BA, Le Moyne College (Syracuse, NY)
MA, Ph.D. UCLA (Cinema & Media Studies)
Field of study: Movie theater History
fleuryjb@ucla.edu 

I am a Lecturer in the Pic and Media Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis, and I received my PhD in Movie house and Media Studies at UCLA in June 2019. I am the co-editor of the album The Franchise Era: Managing Media in the Digital Economy (Oxford/Edinburgh University Printing, 2019). My publications accept appeared in Mediascape (2012, 2015), the S Atlantic Review (2015), and the edited collections James Bond and Popular Culture: Essays on the Influence of the Fictional Superspy (McFarland, 2014), Content Wars: Tech Empires vs. Media Empires (University of California Printing, forthcoming), Comics | Games: From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Expansions (Routledge, forthcoming), and Picture show Reboots (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming). My doctoral dissertation (titled "Space Invaders: Warner Bros. and the History of Hollywood in the Video Game Industry") analyzes the history of video game development and licensing at Warner Bros.

Michele Gendelman

Associate Professor of Movie house Emeritus
BA, Bryn Mawr College
MA, Film and Idiot box Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Subjects: Television and Motion-picture show writing
michelegendelman@hotmail.com

Michele worked in pic and television for 28 years, starting as a story analyst, and then as a writer.  She worked on staff and freelance in 60 minutes-long drama, half-hour comedy, and blithe series, including Newhart, Ghost Stories, and Sheriff Callie'southward Wild West; she'south also sold three features.  Her philosophy on teaching:  give students the breadth to make mistakes in the classroom, not on the set.  She is also the parent of ii Pierce College alumni, and offers these examples of community-higher success:  her son transferred to UCLA, graduated with honors, and now has his doctorate; her girl transferred to, and graduated from, Berkeley, where she now runs social media for one of the country's largest non-profits.  Never underestimate what you lot can accomplish.

Sergio Kopelev

Screenwriting Instructor
BA, University of Massachusetts
MFA, Hollins University in Film
UCLA Post-graduate Professional Program in Screenwriting
Subjects: Television and Film writing
kopelesd@electronic mail.laccd.edu

Having been built-in in Moscow and coming to the United states of america as a Jewish refugee, Sergio grew up in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Brooklyn. Formerly a highly decorated police detective from the east coast, Sergio is now a screenwriter, producer and consultant in Los Angeles, utilizing his unique skill fix and life experiences to create compelling characters and stories. Sergio is a summa cum laude graduate from University of Massachusetts, Boston, the UCLA post-graduate Professional Program in Screenwriting and in 2017 he received his MFA in Movie from Hollins University, while working on a number of Goggle box and Moving picture Projects.

Medico Jonathan Kuntz

Professor of Picture palace
BA, University of California, Berkeley
MA, PhD, Academy of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Subjects: Movie theater and Television History
(323) 953.4000 ext. 2629
kuntzja@lacitycollege.edu
Cinema 2 Website
Picture palace iii Website

Film historian Jonathan Kuntz (Ph.D. '82), studied psychology at UC Berkeley (B.A. '72) and UCLA (One thousand.A. '74) before earning a Ph.D. in Picture and Television at the UCLA College of Fine Arts. A widely respected expert on Hollywood cinema and the evolution of the studio organization, Kuntz has taught generations of students at LACC with the study of cinema production and his Cinema iii History of the Motility Picture, offered every quarter. Kuntz has appeared in numerous documentaries on American film history as an proficient on flick production and exhibition, and has contributed to The New York Times.

Known for his encyclopedic noesis, Kuntz has been quoted in the media on many topics from the careers of Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe to the effects of the Disney purchase of Lucasfilm.

Scott Mazak

Movie theater Instructor
BA, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
MFA, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
Field of study: Motion Pic Production
mazaksa@lacitycollege.edu

An editor and writer, Mr. Mazak has extensive teaching feel in all areas of filmmaking and also has written about Lucasfilm in the book George Lucas'southward Blockbusting.

Daniel Nyiri

Cinema Instructor
MA, Art and Technique of Film Making, London Film Schoolhouse
National Flick and Television School, Beaconsfield, UK
BA, University of Bristol
Subject: Movement Motion picture Producing
nyirid@laccd.edu

Daniel J. Nyiri - I am an executive, writer and filmmaker. I have worked in the Usa, Europe and the Middle East; including on the Board of Directors of BAFTA, the British Academy of Movie and Tv set Arts; every bit Vice Chair of the Directors Gild of Dandy U.k.; and for the Governor of California's Office of Career and Technical Educational activity, creating education and grooming partnerships for careers in live and recorded media arts and sciences, research, development, production and postproduction. I teach cinema, screenwriting and producing in high schools, colleges and universities. I am based at Los Angeles City Higher.

Jennifer Penton

Cinema Instructor
BA, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Creative Writing
MFA, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Flick and Animation
Subject: Film History
pentonjk@lacitycollege.edu

Jennifer Penton - I have worked at Warner Brothers, Klaspy Csupo, and Yahoo!, and on special projects for Disney. I have also worked with many independent filmmakers equally an editor and spider web programmer. As an educator, I have formed liaisons with and led projects for The Getty Museum and SIGGRAPH. I of my greatest joys is to inspire students to explore their inventiveness and gain the technological tools to express themselves through live action and animated motion pictures, and through virtual reality platforms. I hold a available's degree in English and creative writing from UCLA and a master'south degree in motion-picture show with an emphasis in experimental animation from California Plant of the Arts (CalArts).

Moises Perez

AA, Los Angeles Metropolis Higher (Picture palace Production)
BA, California State Academy Northridge (CSUN) (Film Production)
MFA, Mount Saint Mary's University (Moving picture and Television)
Subject: Film Production, Film Genres
PEREZM9@LACITYCOLLEGE.EDU

Moy began educational activity in the Leap of 2011 at CSUN when he volunteered to develop and teach seven film workshops. Each of these lasted eight weeks and catered to students who needed extra help understanding the technical aspects of the filmmaking process. From the Autumn 2017 until Spring 2019, he taught unlike film workshops at LACC. These movie workshops at both CSUN and LACC included the use of analogue film for the digital age, he showed students the process of working with Super 8mm and 16mm picture stock. In his teachings, Moises likes to blend traditional classroom lectures with easily-on demonstrations to reinforce what is covered in grade.
Moises has worked in the motion picture industry since 2012. His film and television working experience comes from the field of advertising where he has worked behind as part of the production team in numerous telly commercials and short films.

Doctor Mary Samuelson

Cinema Teacher
BA, USC School of Movie theater-Idiot box
MA, PhD University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Subject field: Documentary Flick
marygelsey@ucla.edu

Dr. Mary Samuelson received her PhD from UCLA and teaches film history, movie theory, digital writing, English composition, and literature. Dr. Samuelson has taught courses at LACC for 10 years including Picture palace iii—History of the Motion Motion picture, Picture palace 4—History of Documentary Film, and Cinema 18—Introduction to Film Genres. Her areas of specialty and research include the Hollywood studio system, documentary motion-picture show, French picture palace, genre studies, history of radio, and movie theory. Dr. Samuelson has published several manufactures and her book, The Patriotic Play, is forthcoming.

Kenneth Thomas

Cinema/TV Teacher
BA, Boston University (Flick Product)
MFA, San Francisco Fine art Institute (Film)
Subject: TV Production
thomaskp@lacitycollege.edu

Since 1995, Kenneth Thomas has plied his merchandise in news and documentary production all over the world. He got his commencement in Northern California, every bit the Live News Director for the nightly newscasts at a local CBS Tv station. During a five-yr stint in Seattle, he helped commencement a dot-com that specialized in shooting multi-camera productions of stone concerts for the internet. He moved to LA in 2002 and became a busy freelancer, shooting carmine rug events for Curiosity, shooting and editing BTS videos for DVD'southward, and condign i of Yanni's key cinematographers for his PBS specials in Florida, United mexican states, and Egypt. Somewhere in there, he directed a music video that aired on MTV's Headbangers Ball.

After receiving his MFA in 2012, Kenneth completed his first of three music documentaries —

Blood, Sweat + Vinyl— most indie music culture. The terminal motion picture in this trilogy is now in postal service-production. He joined the offshoot kinesthesia of Los Angeles Metropolis College in 2018, both to teach Live Television set Product and as an Avid Certified Instructor for Sound Post Production. In Fall 2019, he returned to his MFA alma mater to teach his dream class, on David Lynch'southwardTwin Peaks. In his spare fourth dimension, he stays active in live multi-camera internet dissemination, and he's studying to become a Certified Cicerone — which is a fancy way of saying "beer adept."​

Joel Trudgeon

Cinema Instructor
BA California State University Northridge (Radio-Goggle box-Film)
MA California State University Northridge (Mass Comm-Screenwriting)
Subject area: Cinema Product & History
trudgej@lavc.edu

Joel Trudgeon is a filmmaker, screenwriter, graphic designer and educator. He specializes in Outreach and Recruitment for LA Valley College.

Joni Varner

Professor of Picture palace & Idiot box Emeritus
BA, University of N Carolina, Greensboro
MA, Land Academy of New York, Buffalo
Subject area: Introduction to Motility Moving picture Production; Beginning Digital Motility Moving-picture show Production
(323) 953.4000 ext. 2627
varnerjk@lacitycollege.edu
Joni Varner LACC Website

Joni Varner has been a professional educator in the field of single- and multi-camera production and media studies for over 30 years at LACC, CSUN, and PCC and has served every bit the LACC Movie theater/Television receiver department chair. She has taught over one hundred sections of Movie theater one: Introduction to Moving picture Production. Prior to that, she worked for a decade in broadcast television every bit a producer, managing director and author of Television set commercials, industrial videos, telethons and live TV shows.

Joni studied and exhibited experimental video fine art at SUNY/Buffalo. She was awarded a Starting time Place (SE Region) in the AFI National Student Video Festival in the Experimental Category. Her work has been permanently curated into the Miami/Dade Library drove, and exhibited at the Mint Museum and Northward Carolina Museum of Fine art.

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  In Memoriam: Professor JP Geuens

It is with cracking regret we denote the passing of one of the charter professors in the LACC Cinema department. JP Geuens taught many subjects during his almost twoscore year career equally a full time professor in the LACC Movie theater/Tv section, just his specialty and passion was cinematography. He also taught offshoot at USC and Art Center College of Design and was a published author on Film Product Theory. He passed on Thanksgiving Day 2020.  Film Production Theory

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STAFF

Juan Carolos Astoquillca

Supervising Engineer
astoqujc@laccd.edu

Jason Chang

 Performing Arts Technician
changje@laccd.edu

Juan Kalafatovich

Video Engineer
kalafaj@laccd.edu

Ming Qi - Retired

Video Engineer
qiz@laccd.edu

Amos Rothbaum

Projectionist
rothbaa@laccd.edu

Juan "Stu" Suarez

Audio Engineer
suarezjc@laccd.edu

Kenneth Thomas

Instructional Media Technician
thomaskp@laccd.edu

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Source: https://www.lacitycollege.edu/Departments/Cinema-TV/Faculty-Staff