Summer Film Institute
SIX WEEK FILM WORKSHOP
June 14 - July 23, 2010
FILM S-202, Intensive Filmmaking Workshop
FILM S-203, Acting in Film
SESSION B: July 5 - August 6, 2010
FILM S-247/AMST S-449/HIST S-187, Film, Video, and American History
FILM S-350 Screenwriting
FILM S-439, Television Situation Comedy
AND ABROAD...
FILM S-143/CZEC S-243, Prague Film and Fiction (in Czech Republic)
FILM S-153, Paris and the Cinema (in France)
Full Course Descriptions
Selected Faculty:
Peggy Flood is a classically trained actor who has appeared on Broadway, in film (Herman USA, Gabriel's Run) and television (Gilmore Girls, Law and Order). She has been teaching a course on film acting technique in the Summer Film Institute since 2003.
Suzanne O'Malley is a writer of Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, and New York Undercover. She produced the documentary UNBORN IN THE USA: Inside the War on Abortion (2007). Her most recent book is the Edgar-nominated Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates (2004). She is a member of the Writers, Dramatists, and Screen Actors Guilds. She writes a weekly blog for The Huffington Post.com. For more info see www.suzanneomalley.com.
Greg Johnson (Yale MBA 1984) reprises “The Business of Film” in the first summer session. A veteran of twenty-five years as an industry executive and as an independent feature film producer (including Wayne Wang’s “Smoke” and Noah Baumbach’s “The Squid and the Whale”), his films have premiered at the Cannes, Sundance and Berlin Festivals and have been nominated for Golden Globes and Academy Awards. He brings his broad experience to a unique and lively course that examines how the history and structure of the film business dictates what appears on the screen today.
Marc Lapadula produced Angel Passing starring Hume Cronyn and Teresa Wright; the award-winning short premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the grand prize at World Fest Houston. His plays have been produced regionally, off-off Broadway, and in England. He regularly teaches screenwriting for Yale's Film Studies Program on the introductory and advanced levels.
Sandra Luckow, producer/writer/director of award-winning documentaries (including Belly Talkers for Miramax) as well as narrative shorts (Uptown Express), directed One Life to Live and is a member of the Director's Guild of America. She teaches filmmaking for Yale's School of Art during the academic year.
Charles Musser, author of The Emergence of Cinema (1990) and other award-winning booksas well as documentary films, has worked extensively in Hollywood. He is currently co-chair ofYale's Film Studies Program.
