School of Film/Video

Ki Jin Kim is an award-winning Korean filmmaker based in Los Angeles, and founding member of Nonetheless Productions. With partner Giulia Caruso, he was nominated for the 2018 Piaget Producers Award. Ki Jin won an Independent Spirit Award for Spa Night and an LA-Emmy for producing KCET’s... Continue reading »

Gary Mairs has taught in the School of Film/Video since 1997, splitting his time between the Program in Film Directing and the Program in Film & Video. He teaches courses in Film History (including seminars on Realist style, the Western, Rock and Roll movies and ‘70s genre film) and... Continue reading »

Born in Guatemala, Ernest Marrero began his career as an avant-garde LGBTQ filmmaker in New York City where he studied experimental filmmaking at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. His film, "One Day Franz Brought Me to His House," is in the permanent... Continue reading »

Lee Anne Schmitt is a Los Angeles based filmmaker interested in political thought, personal experience and the land.  Much of her work revolves around landscape, objects and the traces of political systems left upon them.  Her projects have addressed American Exceptionalism, the logic... Continue reading »

Abigail Severance makes films in a range of forms from narrative to abstract, which explore nostalgia, history, autobiography and the queer heart. Her work has screened at Sundance, The Broad, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Studio Museum Harlem, MIX LGBT Festival, and the National Museum of Women in... Continue reading »

A multi-award winning actor/producer, she has made over 150 appearances on stage/film/television, most recently on “Station 19” and starring in “Second chances with Jason Nash” for YouTubeTV.  She can be seen in “Whiplash”, “Wild Prairie... Continue reading »