Digital Filmmaking
Federico Muchnik
Federico Muchnik has spent most of his career as a producer, director, actor and educator; his work has been screened at the Sundance, New York and Toronto Film Festivals. His first short film, You’re Not Telling Me Everything, Mrs. Malloy (1982), was licensed and aired on HBO. As producer of Destinos (1990) at PBS/WGBH-TV, Federico traveled throughout Europe and South America filming this acclaimed television series. He co-wrote and played the male lead in Raul Ruiz’s cult film comedy The Golden Boat (1992), which won the Audience Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival and was shown at the Sundance and New York Film Festivals. Federico also directed Secret Courage: The Walter Suskind Story (2004), a documentary about the Jewish resistance movement in Holland during World War II. His other films include Touching History: Harvard Square, The Bank and The Tasty Diner (2005) and One Brick At A Time: Building People At An Inner City Youth Center (2007). Most recently he created a trio of shorts for Enterprise Media destined for the business community and led CDIA’s first filmmaking workshop abroad in Prague in 2007. Federico earned a BFA in Film and Television from the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU and speaks four languages.
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Alexis is a non-linear editor, DVD designer/author, camera operator, writer, and Apple Certified Trainer for Final Cut Pro. She started her own production company in 2004 to pursue media that matters, focusing on environmental, social, and health issues. Prior to starting her company, she spent close to fifteen years working in broadcast and print media at advertising agencies and public relations firms, including Ogilvy and Mather, Dentsu Young & Rubicam in Los Angeles, and Porter Novelli, in Washington, DC. She worked as a media buyer, media planner, media supervisor and project manager on national, regional and local consumer and business-to-business campaigns. Alexis holds a BA in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley, and is a graduate of The Edit Center in NYC. She serves on the Executive Committee of the DC Chapter of Filmmakers for Conservation.
Howard Phillips
Howard has been involved in film and video work for over 20 years. His first venture was a business specializing in corporate and music video productions, earning a slot on MTV’s Basement Tapes with his production of Fools for Fashion by The Talk. In 1988, after working as a freelance cameraperson in the US and in Europe, he moved to Boston and founded The Edit House, Avid’s first dedicated 24fps beta site which provided film editorial and postproduction services to over 80 feature films. Over an eight-year period, Howard made significant contributions to Avid’s Film Composer quality assurance team and was invited to share in Avid’s second Technical Oscar® (SciTech Award) in 1998. Howard currently teaches and provides testing/ consulting services to companies such as Aaton, Arriflex, Avid and Panasonic. He studied film and television at Montana State University and is fluent in French. Recent projects include assistant editing, camera and translation for the Jon Fauer ASC’s Cinematographer Style, and postproduction manager on independent and CDIA film and digital video projects.
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Martin, founder of ATS Communications, has been involved in professional communications since 1974. He began his career at the top FM radio station in New York City as an on-air production engineer. From there, he has been in the music recording industry as a studio designer, installer, maintenance and recording engineer; in radio as a systems designer, installer, maintenance and production engineer; in television production facilities as an audio consultant, maintenance and production engineer; and in television and radio as a studio and field production engineer. ATS Communications was created in 1989 to fill the need for a reliable, friendly and convenient local equipment vendor dedicated to the broadcast video production community in the Washington, DC area.
Trevor is a graduate of CDIA and presently works as a freelance videographer/editor in the corporate, event and commercial video industries. Clients include The Aquent Graphics Institute, The Charles River Media Group, Nordstrom Inc., and PBS. He also serves as a part-time instructor of basic camera shooting techniques, Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro for The Aquent Graphics Institute, Cambridge Community Television, CDIA and Assabet Valley High School. Trevor is currently directing a short documentary about the rebirth of breakdancing in Boston's inner cities.
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Kevin holds an MFA in Film Production from NYU. His work as a director-producer has garnered him grants and awards from the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, WorldFest-Houston, the International Telly Awards and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He has optioned four screenplays for theatrical feature films and serves on the advisory board of the internationally distributed magazine, Creative Screenwriting. He teaches (and has taught) producing, directing, screenwriting and film studies classes at Georgetown University, George Washington University and Watkins College of Art and Design. Many of his former students are award-winning filmmakers who work in the professional film industry.
Brian received his bachelor’s degree in Media Studies at Colorado State University, where he also first gained an interest for film and video production when he was granted independent study credit to document his one-year bicycle trip from Alaska to South America. He directed A Season of My Life: The BikeAmericas Experience and was cinematographer on Federico Muchnik’s One Brick at a Time. Brian was the gaffer on the set of The Aristocrat and currently earns his living as a set lighting technician.
President of MarksmanShipPictures.com, Adam is an Apple Certified Trainer in Final Cut Studio. He has trained at Future Media Concepts, local access TV stations, and has also consulted and instructed film and video productions on editing in the areas of corporate, documentary and narrative. He freelances as a trainer and filmmaker of all trades, including writing, editing, directing, producing, 3D animation and music composition. His first feature, The Carving, was completed in his senior year of high school, starred SAG actors and premiered at the Capital Theater in Arlington, MA. Adam is a graduate of the New York Film Academy and has a BA from Bard College in both Creative Writing and Film.
Julie has been working in the DC area since 1994 as a freelance editor and visual effects artist. She has cut several hours of television programming for National Geographic, TruTV, MSNBC and Discovery. Her corporate work includes image pieces for AOL, Netscape and General Motors. Proficient in Avid, Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects and Photoshop, Julie is often hired as a hybrid post operator; both editing and creating motion graphics for many of her projects. She is a graduate of the TV/Film program at Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts and holds a BS in Communications.
for clients such as Verizon, IBM, Fidelity, Liberty Mutual and Boston Works. Mark also teaches acting, comedy and directing for Boston University, Toastmasters, John Robert Powers and several private clients.
at Syracuse University.
Eric has been a film and video-maker since he was 14. He graduated from Northern Arizona University and began a 17 year career as a producer/director for television stations in Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Baltimore and San Francisco. In 1992 he formed his own production company, Canyon Productions, Inc. Eric has since produced and directed the award-winning PBS documentary Edward Abbey: A Voice in the Wilderness, co-directed the PBS documentary The Mystery of Chaco Canyon, and more recently produced two concert documentaries for singer/songwriter Tom Russell. He is currently directing two feature-length documentaries: With One Voice and California Bloodlines. Eric is also a skilled cameraman and editor, working with the latest high-definition cameras and lighting techniques to bring projects successfully to the screen.
