CINE Educational Advisory Board
Featured Advisor: Amanda Pope
Amanda Pope's directing, producing, writing, and editing credits over her more than 20 year long career include award-winning documentary, dramatic, and social advocacy programs. Her work has focused on the dynamics of creativity in fine art, public art happenings, urban design, theatre and dance. Her award-winning public television documentaries: Jackson Pollock Portrait, Stages: Houseman Directs Lear, and Cities for People have all been broadcast nationally on PBS. Most recently she directed two awarded documentaries: The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club which was honored with a Los Angeles area EMMY in the arts and history category; and The Desert of Forbidden Art, co-directed, produced and written with Tchavdar Georgiev, just broadcast on PBS Independent Lens and honored with CINE's Masters Award for Excellence in Independent Filmmaking. She has served on the Board of New York Women in Film, the Women in Film Foundation in Los Angeles, and has been a jury member for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences student films, and the International Documentary Association's feature documentaries. Amanda is a Professor in production at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts.
Full Board
Pat Aufderheide
Professor,
School of Communication
Director,
Center for Social Media
American University
Washington, D.C.
Steve Anderson
Director,
School of Media Arts & Design
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA
Daniel Carlin
Chair of Film Scoring
Berklee College of Music
Boston, MA
Sanjeev Chatterjee
Vice Chair,
Professor and Executive Director
of the Knight Center for international Media
School of Communications
University of Miami
Miami, FL
Dan Kleinman
Professor,
and former Dean of the
Film Division School of the Arts
Columbia University
New York, NY
Recipient of CINE Golden Eagle
for "The Applicant," 1968
Melinda Levin
Chair, Department of Radio,
Television and Film
President,
University Film and Video
Association(UFVA)
University of North Texas
Denton, TX
Jamie Meltzer
Assistant Professor, MFA Program
Art and Art History Department
Standford University
Standford, CA
Amanda Pope
Director, Producer, Writer
Professor in production
School of Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California
Frank Sesno
Assistant Professor, MFA Program
Professor and Director of the
School of Media and Public Affairs
George Washington University
Washington, DC
Paul Stekler
Professor of Public Affairs,
Radio Television and Film
University of Texas - Austin
Austin, TX
Joe Steiff
Associate Chair, Producing
Screenwriting and Directing
Film & Video Department
Columbia College of Chicago
Chicago, IL
