Full-Time Instructors
Milena Grozeva,
Department Chair and Instructor
Mark Hamer,
Instructor, Animation
Joshua Losben,
Instructor, Screenwriting
Rachel Silveria,
Instructor, Film/TV: Production
Adjunct Instructors
Genevieve Freckelton,
Part-Time Faculty Instructor, Animation
Warren Haack,
Part-Time Faculty Instructor, Film/TV Production
Dennis Irwin,
Part-Time Faculty Instructor, Film/TV Production
Alexandra Lacey,
Cole Quirk,
Eduardo Rufeisen,
Part-Time Faculty Instructor, Film/TV Production
Eduardo Rufeisen is an award-winning filmmaker and educator. His films and documentaries have screened and won multiple awards in the United States, Canada, Germany, England, France, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Romania, Israel, India, Russia and Brazil. His commercials have been seen nationally on ABC, MTV, Lifetime, WB, and Fox. He was the Director of the School of Motion Pictures and Television at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
Rufeisen has a B.S. in Economics from South American University, UNICAMP, a graduate degree in Marketing from the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing in Brazil, and an M.F.A. in Motion Pictures and Television from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
Ingrid Schulz,
Part-Time Faculty Instruct
Ingrid Schulz is an educator, filmmaker, and editor, with her short films screening at festivals worldwide. Her experience as an editor in the film industry includes work at PIXAR, DreamWorks, Laika, and Public Television. She has collaborated on numerous independent films and taught cinema courses at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University, and internationally at the University of Tallinn in Estonia. Ingrid has also taught film studies in Study Abroad Programs in Italy and Germany, further enhancing her international teaching experience.
Her published work includes Points of View: Three Hollywood Editors Discuss Their Art, a short book that explores film editing through interviews with Hollywood editors. She earned an MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University. Her work and filmography can be found on IMDb.
Susan Tavernetti,
Instructor, Film History
Christina Wright,
Part-Time Faculty Instructor, Film/TV
Christina Wright is a Media Studies Instructor, Screenwriter and Social Emotional Arts Facilitator. In addition, she works as a Film Review & Curation Consultant for Wayfarer Theaters. Wright has previously worked in video production for the San Francisco Giants and KMVT 15–Silicon Valley Media. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the San José – Dublin Sister City Program and is a member of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area. Wright holds an M.Phil in Film Theory and History from The University of Dublin, Trinity College, B.A. in Theatre Arts from San Francisco State University and A.A. in Speech Communications from Foothill College. She is currently authoring a book on the use of film as a vehicle for social change.
Department Staff