Film/Broadcast Media Program

Paula Froehle
Academic Dean
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Paula Froehle is a director, writer and producer, as well as a visual artist.

Peter Hawley
Chair, Film/Broadcast
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Peter is an award-winning film writer and director working in feature film, documentary, television and TV Commercials.  He has been teaching film at the college level for a dozen years.  Around Flashpoint Academy he is known as "the film guy."

Brian Read
Director, Broadcast Media
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Brian K. Read received his B.A. in Broadcasting & Film from the University of Iowa, and an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College, Chicago. His background combines over twenty years of teaching with an active freelance career, as a director and lighting cameraman. Most recently, he was Director Of Broadcast Operations for the University of California, Irvine.

Amy Rising
Faculty, Film
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Amy Rising has been in the film business for three years, her primary focus is producing. She has worked on numerous award winning short films, several feature films, television shows, and music videos. She has worked on narrative as well as documentary productions.

Armando Ibanez
Faculty, Film
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Armando P. Ibanez is a filmmaker, poet, and an award-winning writer. He has won numerous writing awards, including The American Film Institute's Colin Higgins Screenplay Production Award for the screenplay he wrote for his narrative thesis short, "A Moment of Silence." Armando, a graduate of AFI, is the founder and president of an independent film production company, Pluma Pictures, Inc., which is dedicated to producing films about heroes and heroines. He has also produced, written and directed a number of short documentaries and poetry videos, most of which have screened in national and international film festivals.

Killian Heilsberg-McElrath
Faculty, Film
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Killian Heilsberg-McElrath has spent the last seven years teaching at Lincoln Memorial University, a tiny school in rural Tennessee, nestled in the Cumberland Gap. She mostly taught broadcasting but snuck in things like screenwriting, animation, interactive development, communication in persistent virtual environments and anything else that was bright and shiny. She has written and directed film, television, and stage productions, especially children's theatre and musicals. She loves writing and film in all their myriad forms and will explore anything she can get near.

Laurie Scheer
Faculty, Film
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