Glen Berry
Berry is the founder of the Northwest Film School and the creator of Film Underground, a popular and successful network of filmmaking Web sites that includes Cyber Film School. A former member of the Whatcom Film Association Board of Directors, he also has twice served as the director of the Northwest Projections Film Festival. An award-winning filmmaker, Berry specializes in post production and is currently employed as an editor and post production supervisor on professional independent productions. Berry has written for “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Filmmaking,” “MovieMaker Magazine,” Cyberfilmschool.com and Filmfestivals.com. He also has served as an expert source for international newspaper and radio media outlets.

Dal Neitzel
Neitzel started his careers as a filmmaker in 1966 when he became a motion picture cameraman with the U.S. Marines. During the next four years, he shot film throughout the Pacific Rim, including Vietnam and China. Since then, he has made a career for himself as a documentary filmmaker, the veteran of more than 30 years of award-winning production as a producer, writer, director and/or cinematographer. He currently teaches documentary filmmaking at Whatcom Community College and operates his production company, LummiFilm.

Bob Ridgley
Ridgley is the local owner of Binary Recording Studio. He is heavily involved with the local film scene and does post sound for a large number of the movies in the Projections Film Festival.

Julie Trimingham
Trimingham’s work has screened internationally at festivals; been broadcast by networks like Canada’s CBC and England’s Channel 4; and has won or been nominated for a number of awards including the Genies, Canada’s version of the Oscars. Films she has written, directed and produced include the shorts Gravity’s Angel, Claire, Beauty Crowds Me and Opening Night. She has been commissioned to write television and feature-length dramatic scripts, and wrote/produced the NY Film and Video Festivals’ Audience Choice Award-winning Bitter My Tongue. The Former Mrs. Butterfly is a film riff on the idea of “voice” conceived, directed and produced by Julie; comprising a music video inside a fiction film inside a documentary film, each element of the project also stands alone. Her music/arts-based videos regularly show on Bravo! Trained as a painter at Yale University and as a director at Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Centre in Toronto, Julie has also been a recipient of a Paul D. Fleck Fellowship from the Banff Centre for the Arts. For almost a decade, Julie co-owned and operated Cracker Films, producing and directing commercials, corporate and music videos. Upon moving to the west coast, Julie taught screenwriting at the Vancouver Film School for several years. She has recently been focused exclusively on writing projects of her own.

Instructors are subject to change without notice.

Advisory Board:
Glen Berry, director, Northwest Film School
Robert B. Clark, manager, WWU Digital Video Services
Patrick Dizney, WWU Theater Arts
Dr. Michael Karlberg, associate professor, WWU Department of Communications
Mark Miller, media manager, Fairhaven College
Dal Neitzel, producer, writer and cinematographer
Lisa Spicer, independent producer and instructor