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David Elkins
David Elkins Assistant Dean, Faculty: Cinematography (1997)
B.A., Columbia College-Hollywood; B.A., University of Connecticut; Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Columbia College-Hollywood. Previous teaching experience includes nine years at Columbia College-Hollywood and also served as president of the school. Has worked professionally as a motion picture camera assistant and camera operator for film, television, music videos and commercials. His credits include the television series THE WONDER YEARS and STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, music videos for The Beastie Boys and Red Hot Chili Peppers, commercials for McDonalds, Life Savers and  more. Author of two of the basic textbooks for camera personnel: "The Camera Assistant’s Manual" now in its fourth edition and "Camera Terms and Concepts," published by Focal Press.  Member of the International Cinematographers Guild and Society of Camera Operators.

 

Renata Jackson
Assistant Dean, Faculty: Cinema Studies (1998)
B.A., M.A. in Film Production and Film History/Criticism, Penn State University; Ph.D. in Cinema Studies, New York University. Has taught film history, theory, and analysis at Penn State, Emerson College, The European Institute for International Communication, and New York University. Chair of NCSA Educational Policies Committee since 2000.  President of the Winston-Salem Cinema Society since 2001. Serves as Editorial Assistant on the academic journal The Hitchcock Annual (since 2002). Publications include The Modernist Poetics and Experimental Film Practice of Maya Deren (Edwin Mellen Press, 2002); “Relevant Theory for Documentary Film,” CILECT News No. 42 (May 2005); and “Who’s Your Dada? The Marx Brothers at Paramount,” in A Century of the Marx Brothers, ed. Joseph Mills (Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming).

Renata Jackson

 

Joseph Lopina
Joseph Lopina

Assistant Dean, Faculty: Animation (2005)


A.A.S., in Electronic Engineering Technology; B.F.A., in Film, Syracuse University; M.A., in Educational Media, Appalachian State University. Has taught film and animation courses at the North Carolina School of the Arts since 1999. Associate of the CDI (Center for Design Innovation). Member of the International Association of Animators (ASIFA), Puppeteers of America, and the Puppetry Guild of the Carolinas.

 

Daniel McKinny
Assistant Dean; Faculty: Directing (1993)

Director, producer, director of photography, editor. Credits include movies-of-the-week, TV series, theatrical motion pictures, and documentaries. Five-time member of Emmy Awards Blue Ribbon Judging Panels.  Member, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Daniel McKinny