Seattle Film Institute Faculty

Our faculty are not only instructors, but working professionals. We have a wide range of experience in film production at all levels, from feature films to web commercials.

 

Michael Attie

Michael Attie received an MFA in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University. He has worked in media and advertising in addition to filming and editing documentary and educational videos. Michael's most recent documentary short, Famous 4A, was nominated for the International Documentary Association’s David Wolper Award.

 

Steven Bradford

Steven Bradford received his BA in Film Production from USC. He has produced touch screen video sequences, videodiscs for NASA, and has taped neurosurgery, the rock band KISS, and the Space Shuttle in 3D. He has also shot a low budget 35mm feature. From 2004 to 2007 Steven was the director of the School of Film and Visual Effects at Collins College in Phoenix, Arizona.

 

Tyler Brazil

Tyler Brazil earned a Masters in Fine Arts from Chapman University in film production. His primary focus at school was Cinematography and Visual Storytelling, but he believes that every great story starts with a great script. While in California he worked on numerous short films shooting everything from 35mm to the RED camera. In addition to his teaching responsibilities Tyler works on local shorts and writes in his free time.

 

Alec Carlin

Alec Carlin recently wrote and directed “Outpatient” which has won numerous awards including Best Picture and Best Director at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival as well as Best Picture Awards at Keywest Indiefest, the No Dance Film Festival and the International Festival of Festivals in Palm Springs. We was the finalist in the Nicholls Foundation Screenwriting Fellowship. Alec’s screenplay, Darkdrive was produced as a feature film in 1997.

 

Steve Edmiston

Steve Edmiston is a writer/co-producer whose recent feature, Crimes of the Past, premiered on Lifetime in 2010 and is distributed internationally by Marvista Entertainment. His previous feature, A Relative Thing, is distributed by Official Best of Fest and Gaiam’s Spiritual Cinema Circle. Steve is also a business, intellectual property, and entertainment attorney with the Invicta Law Group. He advises several NW film festivals, is a director for the Northwest Screenwriters Guild, and is on the IndieFlix advisory board.

 

Tim Huling

Tim Huling graduated magna cum laude from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and is a composer specializing in music for film, television and other media. Tim's music has been heard around the world in productions such as the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the PBS documentary Inside Passage, the theatrical trailer for Monster, and more. Tim has been teaching in the Pacific NW Film Scoring Program since 1999.

 

Jack Mitz

Jack Mitz is a graduate of SFI's 40 Week Total Immersion Program, and studied at the Second City Theater in Chicago after attending the University of Illinois. He has worked on productions for The Food Network, PBS, as well as documentaries and music videos. He has hosted the Indie Film News Show for Storypipe.com. Jack was featured in the Seattle Times for his work on the 1,000 Smiles documentary, and is currently shooting a women’s issues documentary.

 

Hummie Mann

Hummie Mann graduated magna cum laude from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and is a two-time Emmy-award winning composer/arranger who has collaborated with some of Hollywood's most celebrated directors in both theatrical and television films. His motion pictures projects have ranged from Mel Brooks' "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" to Peter Yates' "Year of the Comet". Hummie is also the principal instructor of the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program at the Seattle Film Institute.

 

Christopher Mosio

Christopher Mosio is a professional cinematographer who graduated from the USC School of Cinema/Television. Christopher has shot commercials, documentaries, feature films, and music videos for artists including Celine Dion, Reba McEntire, and K.D. Lang. He received an East Coast Emmy Award, was a cameraman for the feature film Akeelah and the Bee, and was Director of Photography for the BET series, Baldwin Hills.

 

Krk Nordenstrom

Krk Nordenstrom is a graduate of SFI's 40 Week Total Immersion Program. For the last eight years he has worked as designer and production artist for print and web projects. Krk has produced, directed and edited two music videos for the Seattle band Kultur Shock, and has worked with Seattlewood, Nimble Productions and is in charge of the Seattle 48 Hour Film Contest.

 

Tim O'Hara

Tim O'Hara received a BA in Film from Cornell University, interned with Jim Henson Pictures in Hollywood, worked with NPR’s WBUR Boston, and directed a feature on football’s longest winning streak. Tim went on to receive an MFA in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University, and has taught at the Digital Media Academy. His films have premiered at Slamdance and Cinequest, and have screened around the world.

 

Lenville O'Donnell

Lenville (Lenny) O’Donnell is a Director of the Masters in Producing for Film program, and a graduate of the University of Washington. He is the founder and president of Veni Vidi Films and currently has two feature films in pre-production and several more in development. Lenville has produced for Paramount, MGM, NBC, Bravo, Discovery, and the Travel Channel, and his film On Native Soil, was a semi-finalist for the 2006 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film.

 

Lance Rhoades

Lance Rhoades received his Master’s from the University of Washington where he is a graduate instructor in the Dept. of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies. He earned the 2003-04 Excellence in Teaching Award. Lance has taught summer courses on literature and film at MIT and Cal Tech, written articles on horror films and film music, and is currently editing a book on Federico Fellini.

 

David Shulman

David Shulman received his MFA in Cinema/Television from USC and taught film/video at the university level prior to founding the Seattle Film Institute in 1994, where he is the Executive Director. He has produced, directed, written and edited numerous PBS documentaries. David worked as a story analyst for Columbia Pictures and has worked on a wide range of feature films. He recently completed World Enough and Time, an independent 35mm feature film which he wrote, directed, and edited.

 

David Trees

David Trees received a BA in Film Production from Montana State University, and also studied both screenwriting and fiction writing at the University of Washington. His many adventures with the pen include scripting film documentaries, writing for television, and a newspaper writing career as reporter, editor, and columnist. David was awarded the national Writer's Digest grand prize for his screenplay Under High Woods.

 

Oliver Tuthill

Oliver Tuthill worked in Hollywood for ten years as an actor, and holds a Producers Diploma from the Hollywood Film Institute. He is president of the Seattle-based Blue Wood Films. His credits include writing and directing the documentaries Complex and Wounded Heart: Pine Ridge and the Sioux, and producing and directing the feature film The Right to Bear Arms. In addition, he is an editor and composer, and the recipient of the Washington Governor’s Award in Media and a Telly Award.

 

Bill Weir

Bill Weir received his degree in Motion Pictures & Television from UCLA, and has worked as a producer, screenwriter, and director in both Hollywood and Seattle. He has worked on feature films, documentaries, commercials, music videos, and marketing videos. In 1994 Bill helped David Shulman in founding the Seattle Film Institute and taught one of the school's first two classes. He is currently Director of the Masters in Producing program and is developing two feature film projects.

 

Denise Weir

Denise Weir graduated magna cum laude with a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts. Denise is a motion graphics designer and animator with 20 years of experience working in the fields of print, motion, and animation. Currently she lives and maintains a studio in the Seattle area where she free-lances, producing digital graphics and animations, and continues to follow her first love of drawing. She has been involved with brands such as Starbucks, Wizards of the Coast, Seattle Symphony, and K2 Skis.