Visiting Faculty: Post Production and Cinema Studies (2000)
B.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts; Master’s Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language, Appalachian State University. Began his career in international documentary video as a UNHCR Program Assistant in Sarajevo, Bosnia–Herzegovina during the war. The inspiration from this experience led him to explore the medium of video extensively in South Asia. Completed SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN SPEAK OUT, a documentary shot in four languages utilizing “Theater of the Oppressed” techniques for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, Alkmaar, Netherlands. Most recently co-produced and created video for two permanent installations in the Museum of the African Diaspora, MOAD, in San Francisco: “Celebrations,” a 180-degree video projection in a circular room and “Slave Narratives,” an immersive video environment featuring the narration of Maya Angelou. Has taught courses in editing technology and stereotypes in the School of Filmmaking since 2000. |
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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).
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Faculty: Cinema Studies (2007), Dean of School of Filmmaking (1999-2006)
B.A., Brandeis University; Master of Science in Communications, San Jose State University. Dale Pollock produced 13 feature films, including SET IT OFF, MRS. WINTERBOURNE, A MIDNIGHT CLEAR, THE BEAST and BLAZE. His films have received four Academy Award nominations and have won several awards, including Best Film at the Cleveland and Houston film festivals. He was chief film reviewer for Daily Variety, film reporter for the Los Angeles Times (where he was a Pulitzer Prize nominee) and author of “Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas,” first published in 1984 with more than 150,000 copies in print. |
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Faculty: Cinema Studies (2006)
B.A., Communications: Broadcasting and Film from UNC-Greensboro; Film Preservation Certification from the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House Museum of Photography and Film. Has been the Assistant Curator for the Moving Image Archives for over 10 years after spending two years in the School of Filmmaking as a student. Has managed or directed the exhibition component for the Gala Opening of the School of Filmmaking, the 52nd Annual University Film and Video Association Conference, Cinethics: National Conference on Ethics, and the RiverRun International Film Festival. A member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. |
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