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.

Matthew Nicolay
Nicolay found his first job in film at the age of 16 as a production assistant on a “movie of the week.” After a long list of internships and a variety of industry posts, he discovered an interest in production audio, while pursuing a bachelor’s degree in film at San Francisco State University. With 20 years of industry experience, he is a sought after sound mixer in Hollywood whose work includes more than 75 feature films, music videos, commercials and ENG video. His works also include films such as Fox's "Waitress," Paramount’s “The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning;” “The Astronaut Farmer;” and “Akeelah and the Bee,” with Laurence Fishburne; “Twin Falls Idaho,” released by Sony Pictures; “Love and Sex,” with Jon Favreau and Famke Jensen; “Kung Pow: Enter the Fist,” for director Steve Oedekerk; and “Northfork,” a Polish Brothers Paramount Pictures Classics release.

Albert Pyun
Since 1981, Pyun has written, produced and directed more than 40 studio and independent theatrical motion pictures, with combined revenues from theatrical and video markets currently exceeding $227 million. His first film, “The Sword and The Sorcerer” (1982), was a commercial and critical success, and is ranked number 20 on the all-time, top-grossing independent films with domestic theatrical revenue of more than $40 million (in 1982 dollars). “Conan the Barbarian” followed this success, along with more than 25 similar-themed pictures. Other notable films include “Omega Doom” (1996), starring Rutger Hauer; “Adrenalin: Fear the Rush” (1997), for Largo Entertainment and Miramax’s “Dimension Label,” starring Christopher Lambert and Natasha Henstridge. Additional work includes “Postmortem,” with Charlie Sheen, and “Crazy Six) (1997), with Rob Lowe, Mario Van Peebles and Burt Reynolds. Earlier this year, Pyun completed H.P. Lovecraft’s “Cool Air” in conjunction with the Northwest Film School,” and he recently finished shooting “Left for Dead” in Buenos Aires.

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.

Brian Tranel
Tranel has a Master of Arts in Screenwriting from Cal State University, Northridge, and a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Television from Montana State University. He has worked in the film industry in both New York City and Hollywood for over ten years, including serving as a script reader for Robin Williams and Billy Crystal. Bryan’s original screenplay Non Compos Mentis will be produced this spring in Los Angeles by Polymath Pictures.

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
Albert Pyun, director, producer and screenwriter
Lisa Spicer, independent producer and instructor