Moving Image Arts - People
Harry Mathias
Chair, 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 dramas, comedies, action, and special effects movies. He was also very active in the San Francisco avant-garde filmmaking movement. He also won a Golden Eagle Award for his documentary Shadow Children about homeless teenagers.
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 a contributing author to The American Cinematographer's Manual, The American Cinematographer's Video Manual, and The SMPTE book: Television Image Quality.
Mathias' research interests involve the creative control of moving images to tell compelling stories equally well with film or digital technology.
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.
Brad Wolfley
Faculty, Moving Image Arts Department
MA, MFA, Rutgers University
BA, The University of New Mexico
Brad Wolfley has worked as a senior editor, writer, director, videographer, and production technician. In addition, he has produced and directed numerous television commercials, films, music videos, and industrial videos.
Terry Borst
Faculty, Moving Image Arts Department
MFA, University of California, Los Angeles
BA, University of California, Berkeley
Terry Borst has worked as a professional screenwriter for more than 20 years, with credits in film, television, and video games, and has taught screenwriting at universities and colleges in Los Angeles and New Mexico. He is the co-author of Story and Simulations for Serious Games: Tales from the Trenches and End-to-End Game Development: Creating Independent Serious Games and Simulations from Start to Finish.
Hank Rogerson
Faculty, Moving Image Arts Department
BA, Dartmouth College
Hank Rogerson is a director, writer, and actor who works both in fiction and non-fiction film. His film Shakespeare Behind Bars had its world premiere in the documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival and won numerous awards on the festival circuit. Hank also co-produced, directed, and edited Homeland, an award-winning documentary about four families on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, as well as Circle of Stories, a multi-media project that brings to life the vibrant art of Native American storytelling at www.pbs.org. He recently completed the film version of Circle of Stories, which will have its world premiere in San Francisco in the fall of 2010.
Rogerson has also worked as a freelance writer, director, and producer within the film industry and is a two-time Sundance Institute Fellow. As an actor, Rogerson has done film, television, and theater. Most recently, he appeared on the television shows In Plain Sight, Crash, and ABC's Scoundrels.
Rogerson has taught filmmaking at the University of California, the Sundance Institute, and the College of Santa Fe, as well as at workshops around the United States.
Diane Schneier Perrin
Academic Departments Director, Graphic Design, Moving Image Arts and Music
BFA, Tisch School of the Arts at New York University
Independent producer Diane Schneier Perrin has extensive experience in film development, production, and distribution and has a passionate commitment to quality filmmaking. Schneier Perrin served as vice president of production for FSA Film Enterprises and as director of creative affairs for Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation. Her producing credits include Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story (Lou Gossett Jr. and Charlayne Woodard), Convict Cowboy (Jon Voigt, Marcia Gay Harden, and Kyle Chandler), Barbet Schroeder's Academy Award-winning Reversal of Fortune, Kathryn Bigelow's Blue Steel, and Oliver Stone's Talk Radio.
In 2006, Schneier Perrin moved with her family to Santa Fe, N.M., to serve as director of the New Mexico Filmmakers Intensive at the College of Santa Fe, a one-year, post-baccalaureate program offering professional training in four key creative areas of filmmaking: producing, screenwriting, directing, and editing.
Schneier Perrin served as a panelist on the 2009 New Mexico Women in Film Athena Award for Excellence in Short Screenplay and the 2009 New Visions/New Mexico Contract Awards and on the advisory committee for the benefit reading of Eve Ensler's new work, I Am An Emotional Creature: The Secret Lives of Girls Around the World, at Santa Fe's Lensic Performing Arts Center. She currently serves on the board of the Tara School and as a member of the Governor's Council on Film and Media Industries.
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