Learn to bring maximum emotional and visceral power to your work
Discover how to convey emotion by the use of looks, action, and subtext in order to unleash the dramatic power of your film. Learn to use anticipation, suspense, and “the screen of the mind” to empower your film or TV show.
Make the most of the Audience-Character relationship
Discover how to understand and orchestrate the Journey of the Audience as it watches your film or TV Show. Discover how the Filmmaker uses staging, shot composition and choice, camera placement and movement, editing and sound to put the Audience “in the shoes” of their Main Character(s) emotionally, perceptually, cognitively and viscerally in order to deepen and intensify its immersion in their movie, its story, drama, and emotion.
When I’m making a film, I’m the audience. Martin Scorsese
Taught by the former Head of the Graduate Directing Program at AFI
Join the ranks of alumni successful in all genres who developed their skills and voices under my tutelage. Benefit from my seventeen years of teaching at AFI Conservatory, eight as Head of Directing, and my six as an independent consultant and educator to develop your craft and your voice, thinking and working in ways that work on the screen, and work for you.
Many of my alumni have notable careers in Film and TV, several garnering major awards at Cannes, The Academy, Sundance, Busan and elsewhere.