Our instructors have a wide range of experience in film production at all levels, from feature films to digital commercials.

David Shulman

is the Founder and Executive Director of both the Seattle Film Institute and the Carolina Film Institute. 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 received his MFA in Cinema/Television from USC and taught film/video at the the university level prior to found the Seattle Film Institute in 1994. He recently completed World Enough and Time, an independent 35mm feature film which he wrote, directed, and edited.

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 the Keywest IndieFest, the No Dance Film Festival and the International Festival of Festivals in Palm Springs. Alec was a finalist in the Nicholls Foundation Screenwriting Fellowship and his script, Darkdrive was produced in 1997.

Steven Bradford

has been sounding out the edges of new media boundaries since graduating with a traditional degree in film production from the University of Southern California almost thirty years ago. In the mid 80s he produced touch screen video sequences for a pioneering e-commerce technology company and invented a system for mass producing personalized home videos starring a Mattel toy character. Since then he has produced videodiscs for NASA, filmed video game sequences for Northrop and Sierra Online, taped neurosurgery, the rock band KISS, and the Space Shuttle in 3D, shot one extremely low budget 35mm feature, along with way way too many talking heads and close-ups of computer screens. From 2004 to 2007 Steven was the director of the School of Film and Visual Effects at Collins College in Phoenix, Arizona.
He currently spends his time forgetting obsolete technologies so he can learn more.

Christopher Julian

is a freelance editor and cinematographer with primary focus in feature-length documentaries, including 101 Ways to Retire--or Not! and Saved by Deportation. He has had a broad range of experience with other short-format documentaries and works in educational, training, fund-raising and public service videos. Chris also directed and co-wrote the feature film Invisible Ink. Chris is a Cinema graduate of Binghamton University, and also has taught editing, audio and post-production at other institutions. Christopher Julian's website

Randy LaFollette

has a strong background in film and video production, including features, television corporate videos, and commercials. His Assistant director credits include work on such films as Suspect Zero, The Crow, and the television series, Buffy, The Vampire Slayer. Randy presently works in the Seattle area as a first assistant director.

Jack Mitzenmacher

a graduate of the Seattle Film Institute, studied at the Second City Theater in Chicago after attending the University of Illinois. He has worked on productions for The Food Network, PBS, and a myriad of documentaries and music videos. He has also 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. This summer, Jack will be Assistant Directing a feature film that will include other SFI graduates on the crew.

Christopher Mosio

is a professional cinematographer who graduated from the USC School of Cinema/Television. In addition to commercials and documentaries, he has worked on nearly two dozen feature films and his work has appeared in theaters and on television. Christopher has also shot live concerts and music videos for artists including Celine Dion, Reba McEntire, and K.D. Lang. Chris received an East Coast Emmy Award for his work on a PBS documentary about Thomas Jefferson, and was a cameraman for the feature film Akeelah and the Bee. He has also recently traveled around the world shooting the Discovery Travel Channel series, 1000 Places to See Before You Die. He is currently working on the reality series, Baldwin Hills.

Krk Nordenstrom

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

Lenville O'Donnell

has producing directing, and writing credits on feature films, documentaries, and television programming for networks and studios, including Paramount, MGM, NBC, Bravo, Discovery, and CourtTV. In 2006 he produced On Native Soil, a feature documentary that was nominated for an Academy Award. He was also supervising producer for the Dave E. Kelly prime time legal series The Law Firm, which aired on NBC in 2005. Lenny recently produced the independent feature The Spy and the Sparrow which premiered at the 2009 Seattle Independent Film Festival. After more than a decade in Hollywood, he is now based in Seattle and has two feature documentaries in pre-production through his production company Veni Vidi Films.

Lance Rhoades

is a graduate instructor at the University of Washington Dept. of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies Program, where he earned the 2003-04 Excellence in Teaching Award. He 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.

Stephanie Shine

is the artistic director for the Seattle Shakespeare Company. She is a graduate of the University of Washington's Professional Actor Training Program and has performed at theatres in Seattle as well as several regional theatres including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, The Alley in Houston, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, NYC's Theatre for a New Audience, Idaho Repertory Theatre, New Mexico Repertory Theater, and Arizona Theatre Company. Stephanie has directed for Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Baja Shakespeare Company, Cornish College of the Arts, Book-It Repertory Theatre, and Bainbridge Performing Arts Center. As an actor she's appeared in episodic TV, movies of the week, industrials, commercials, and the feature films Georgia and World Enough and Time.
She recently directed her first feature film, Marilyn--Forever Blonde.

Kevin Tomlinson

has been a producer, director, and cameraman for twenty years, working with broadcast (NBC News, ESPN, ABC, CBS, FOX-TV, PBS) and coporate clients to produce news magazines, documentaries, international travel series, marketing, electronic press kits for feature films, training, and corporate communications programming. Recent projects include 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes II, Dateline NBC, 48 Hours, 20/20, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and Entertainment Tonight, along with projects for National Geographic TV, The Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, Discovery Channel, Learning Channel, and The History Channel.

George Tramountanas

has worked in several Hollywood offices, including those of Michael Phillips and Oliver Stone. He has a Masters in Film and TV Production from USC, where he made the award-winning short “SCREWED: A Hollywood Bedtime Story”. In addition, he’s worked as a film publicist, written several scripts, and directed a promotional video for Camp Agape NW (an organization for kids with cancer).

David Trees

graduated with a four year degree in film production and also studied both screenwriting and fiction writing at the University of Washington. After scripting film documentaries, he did a two year stint writing for television. He then launched into a newspaper writing career as a reporter, editor and columnist. He left the news business to pursue his own creative writing and was awarded the national Writer's Digest grand prize for his screenplay Under High Woods.