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.

Caleb Young
Caleb Young is an award-winning filmmaker and has made five feature films, ten short films, and several commercials and music videos since 2005. Young’s films have screened at local, national and international film festivals. He was recently on two panels at Boise’s True West Cinema Festival (Shooting on film in the Digital Age, and Independent Film). Young has a BA in Creative-Writing from WWU and is currently finishing up his Post-Bach for Secondary Education – English. Young is the owner and co-founder of Lines and Blood Productions. Young’s script Afraid to Merge was a finalist in ScriptShark Insider Screenplay Competition, and has received three Official Selections.

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