Changhee Chun
Changhee Chun currently works as a Professor at Ithaca College in L.A., California. He is also Freelance Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography, and Editor.
In 1995, Chun worked on award-winning documentary series as director / producer at Samsung Broadcasting Station (SBC) and Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC). He was producer for coverage of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics for Korean National broadcasting.
Chun’s career includes working on several feature films for Korean production companies, creating music videos for many Korean pop stars, making commercials for major marketing firms (KIA, etc), and directing independent films and client based productions.
His work has been accepted into numerous Film Festivals including, CINESTUD in Amsterdam, St. Louis International Film Festival, Blue Sky International Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, the Rochester International Film Festival, the Ohio Independent Film Festival, the James River Festival of Moving Image, Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival, Independents’ Film Festival, da Vinci Film Festival, The East Lansing Film Festival, Muskegon Film Festival and so on. His works received numerous awards and have been aired nationally and internationally.
(For more information, visit his website, www.acrosstheskyseries.com)
Christina O’Rourke
Christina O’Rourke hails from Chicago, Illinois where she began making films at the age of 10. While focusing her education at Ithaca College on producing she has managed twenty-six productions, including line producing two feature length films. Christina’s work has received awards from the Rhode Island International Film Festival, Ithaca College, and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Her experience includes a variety of projects with leading companies in the entertainment industry such as NBC, MTV, HGTV, The Gersh Agency, Anonymous Content, and Big Shoulders Productions. Recently a screenplay that Christina co-wrote took grand prize in the Golden Doorknob Competition, and she is busy producing that film this spring. Christina currently resides in Los Angeles and is excited to be one of the founding members of Last Lantern Productions.
Zach Bishop
Even from a very young age, Zach has been very musically inclined and interested in anything sonic in nature. He has been playing music live since he was 15, as well as engineering professionally both at live venues and in studios since he was 17.
He has developed a very strong ear and recently moved into the field of film sound, both on-set recording and post-production sound.
Corey Trench
Corey first got into filmmaking when he was a junior in high school while taking a class called Broadcast Journalism. From there, he taught himself Final Cut Pro and made his first short film, Born Under a Bad Sign, which he made while earning an A.A.S degree in TV & Radio at SUNY’s Onondaga Community College (2006) (Syracuse, NY).
To learn more about directing from an actor’s perspective, he studied at The Workshops at Rockport College (Rockport, Maine)(Summer 2006) under Barry Primus, a veteran actor who performed in such films as Righteous Kill and Life as a House.
Later, he earned a B.S. in Cinema Production at Ithaca College’s Roy H. Park School of Communications (2008). While there, he made many short narrative films and two documentary films, Father’s Son and The Last Tree in LA.
Corey lives in Los Angeles, where he is pursuing a career in the post-production field of filmmaking. He has experience editing in Final Cut Pro, Compressor, Soundtrack Pro, Motion, DVD Studio Pro, and Avid Express.
Joey Laughney
Joey Laughney is an accomplished filmmaker with roots in many different genres of video. He began making horror films in 2005 and later that went on to make Collie Rotweiler and the Hangaround Kid, a dramatic film that won the Gold Award at the Houston World Festival. He has worked in postproduction for RSN-Mount Snow TV41, Vermont Digital Productions, filming and editing commercials, and show segments. He has covered news stories with Fox44 Burlington VT and directed newscasts for that network. Most recently he works on the set of the new Spike TV show Surviving Disaster.
Michael Vasios
Michael Vasios is a rising Senior of Ithaca College. He comes from northern-central New Jersey and has a broad range of interests including the outdoors, art & literature.
Joseph Duffy
Joseph Duffy first became interested in media production in junior high school, when his proficiency in video led to a free ticket out of shop class through making a documentary about the class project. What originally began as an exercise in avoiding the use of a band-saw became an interest in 3D animation, and the use of nonlinear editing systems. Joe continued his work in high school, entering tech school for Electronic Media while the rest of his peers were finishing their Junior years, and went on to enter the Cinema Production program in the Park School at Ithaca College, and is slated to graduate in May of this year.
Kelli Southern
Kelli Southern is a Communication Management and Design major at Ithaca College with an interest in producing. She has been involved with several student films at the college and in various film festivals, such as the Toronto International Film Festival. She currently works at Nickelodeon Animation Studios in Los Angeles, where she hopes to further her career in the entertainment industry.
Katie Gorham
Katie grew up in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, which helped spark her passion for the outdoors with hiking, kayaking and camping. She also loves traveling and seeing live music. In terms of production, Katie enjoys working in the field, especially as a camera operator. Katie just recently worked on a documentary where she was did both camera and audio operation, sound design and editing. While she has recently spent a lot of time in the field, Katie also has experience working in the television studio as a director, technical director, and camera operator. Katie’s love for music led to her role as the Assistant Program Director at 92 WICB-FM for three years, where she still is an active deejay for several radio shows.
Nogen Melamed
Nogen did not get his first camera when he was two. He did not know he would become a working cinematographer at an early age. Nogen got his start (almost accidentally) at Ithaca College where he shot his first film and fell in love with the craft. After shooting several award winning films, he set out to Los Angeles and interned for Dariusz Wolski A.S.C. on the set of Pirates of the Caribbean II & III. It was through Dariusz’s mentorship and guidance that Nogen found his passion for dark, moody images, and unconventional lighting methods. Since then, Nogen has shot several films and music videos, some of which received awards in the festival circuit. Nogen hopes to continue to push the envelope and, above all, continue to learn. (www.nogenmdp.com)
Pete Berg
Pete Berg is a freelance TV producer, video editor, web designer and jack-of-all-trades, based in Los Angeles. Pete has a love for nonfiction and documentary storytelling; new media (he maintains over a dozen of his own websites); and for all types of travel and adventure (he just spent 6 months in 2008 backpacking through Asia).
Professionally, Pete has most recently worked as a Segment Producer for Actual Reality Pictures, on TV shows including “Hope For Your Home” (TLC); “Flip That House” (TLC); and “Greenovate” (Planet Green). At Ithaca College, Pete produced the highly successful reality TV series “The Race“, which received national press and many awards. (PeteBerg.net)
Angel Yau
Filmmaker. Comedian. Writer. Blogger. Taco Bell Lover. Simply she wants to tell a effective story and make everyone not worry as much as she does. A nomad between Los Angeles and New York City- Her biggest fear is being boring and having her external hard drives dropped/melted/stepped on and/or eaten. She graduated from Ithaca College majoring in Cinema and Photography Production and minoring in
Creative Writing.To support her arts, she’s a freelancer currently working in post-
production for various reality TV shows ya know- the ones where they
force love between two people. Her performances have got her into the Seattle Sketch Festival, New York Underground Comedy Festival, LA Comedy Festival, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival and many more to come (maybe?). You can usually catch her at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and at Theatre Asylum where she hosts a monthly variety comedy arts show.You can find her work (comedy, animation, shorts, witty remarks) at angelyau.com and youtube.com/angeleristic.
Jackie Cook
Jackie is a freelance art assistant with a passion for film, television, animation, graphic design and the Food Network. She has worked on NBC shows Heroes, Life and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, FOX pilot Ernesto, and Fired Up!, a Sony Screen Gems released in February of 2009. Her future goals lie in graphic design, motion graphics and art direction. One day she would love to own and run her own business, whether that is a graphic design studio or a post-production house. Her hobbies include cake decorating, sketching, creating animations, and watching 30 Rock. (You can view her graphics portfolio at: flickr.com/jscook)
Peter Terlaak Poot
Pete grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania, the son a music teacher. He studied for 15 years as a violinist, culminating in being the concertmaster of the Young People’s Philharmonic, 1st chair of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, and a 1st violinist in several chamber ensembles. In his early teens Pete began touring around the world as a violinist, but it wasn’t until he played a conflicted musician in his friend’s student film that he discovered how cinema offers a better opportunity to communicate with an audience.
Pete attended Ithaca College where he embarked to study all styles of film making, and fell in love with the craft.
Now Pete is a Los Angeles based freelance producer/editor, specializing in non-fiction. He has shot and edited over 40 commercial demos, and his creative work has been screened around the world. In his spare time, he DJs for the South African label, Nexus Media. (youexist.com)
Michael DeHart
Michael DeHart is passionate about producing. He loves working with dedicated people and supplying them with all the tools necessary to make the production the best it can be. He’s worked every position from top to bottom and fully understand the needs an challenges of each department. Most recently he co-produced a low budget music video for Lincoln shot on the Red. Mike also works on set at Current TV doing everything from Camera Operating to Lighting, Teleprompting and running their small Greenscreen Stage. He has shot and edited a number of field pieces for the network and acted as a Post Coordinator and Audio Finish Editor for their Earth Day hour long special. It’s also rumored that he can put together the port-a-jib blindfolded in under 5 mins…the jury is still out on that one. (MikeDeHart.com)
Sona Ram
Sona Ram grew up in Upstate New York where she grew to develop a vile hatred toward cold weather. Upon this realization and graduating from Ithaca College’s Park School of Communications in 2007, she headed to the sunny shores of Los Angeles, California. Her interests include non-fiction film, travel, non-profit organizations, and wildlife. She has dabbled in various aspects of the film and television production, ranging from producer/director/editor of a documentary short, “Max Impact”, to working for NBC during their coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, to coordinating the CBS EyeLab, a promotions department dealing solely with trends in new media.
Sona has just returned from 3 months as a volunteer in Cape Town, South Africa, where she worked with SANCCOB (South African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds) rehabilitating injured sea birds, such as the African Penguin and the Southern Giant Petrel. She is currently freelancing in Los Angeles as a production coordinator.
Bob Salatich
Bob Salatich arrived in Los Angeles in July of 2007 after graduating from Ithaca College with a bachelor of science degree in Cinema Production. First satisfying a desire to constantly be on set, Bob worked on various films and music videos fulfilling roles wherever he could in grip/electric and camera departments. After continuing set work and managing a local camera and lighting rental house, Indie Rentals, for close to a year, it was time for Bob to pursue his true passions in producing and directing.
In addition to working for the screen, Bob has always enjoyed the stage performing improv and sketch comedy shows independently and as part of training programs at Second City in Chicago and Upright Citizens Brigade here in LA. Outside of entertainment, Bob has jumped into the triathlon world training for and participating in numerous triathlons round the state and country including the Ironman 70.3 in Kona, Hawaii. Bob is currently working as a freelance producer and director while chasing the dream to the big screen.
