JBFC FILM & VISUAL LITERACY
EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Faculty
Anne Marie Santoro
Joseph
Summerhays
Ara
Osterweil, Ph.D.
Barbara
De George
Vicente Rodriguez
Ortega, Ph.D.
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(l. to r.) Anne
Marie Santoro, faculty; Emily Keating, JBFC Associate Director
of Education; Brady Shoemaker, JBFC Education Assistant; Joseph
Summerhays,
faculty;
Barbara De George, faculty; Guy Gerace, Animation Instructor; and
Katie Braun, JBFC Education Associate.
Anne Marie Santoro
Anne Marie Santoro is an award-winning program designer and producer of educational
media and national school and community outreach projects. Over 30 years in this
field, she has developed a national reputation as an author and educational media
specialist who creates curriculum and training that bring communities together
around a common goal. After completing a Masters degree in Communication, she
worked in the Education Division at WNET/Thirteen and at the Children’s
Television Workshop (CTW). Ms. Santoro is founder and president of From the Heart
Communications, a Manhattan-based company committed to designing and developing
educational media projects that nourish the best in the human spirit.
Joseph Summerhays
Joe Summerhays specializes in children’s and adolescent entertainment and
educational projects with a focus on animation, instructional design, and original
programming. He is the author of 35 children's books, and designer of over 70
award-winning interactive children’s software titles. From 1994 to 2000,
he was creative director at Houghton Mifflin/Sunburst Technology. He has won
many awards including Newsweek’s Editor’s Choice Award and
Good Morning America’s “Best Software for Kids.” Joe has produced
creative properties for clients such as MTV, HBO, VH1, and AOL. He is also a
regular lecturer on animation in the Master's program at NYU's Tisch School of
the Arts.
Ara Osterweil, Ph.D.
Dr. Ara Osterweil is a film scholar, writer, and educator. She has taught numerous
film studies courses at the University of California, Berkeley, including “Trash
Cinema,” “Film Theory,” and “History of Sound Cinema,” as
well as interdisciplinary courses such as “Writing the Cinematic City” and “1939:
Culture and Politics.” Dr. Osterweil has also taught fifth grade, and was
a high school instructor at the Ghetto Film School in the Bronx. She has published
articles in the magazine Film Quarterly and several book chapters on
avant-garde cinema. Dr. Osterweil received her Masters degree in Cinema Studies
from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and her Ph.D. in Film Studies from
the University of California, Berkeley, where she concentrated on American and
European film history and theory.
Barbara De George
Barbara De George has taught for 35 years, 30 of those years in the Mount Vernon
City School District. She has taught kindergarten, grades 3-6, 7-8 Social Studies,
and Art. Mrs. De George developed many innovative programs for her district,
including designing, writing, and implementing new humanities and multicultural
education curricula. She was a member of the Strategic Planning Professional
Development Committee and Mentoring Committee. Mrs. De George has won many awards,
including the Mosaic Award for excellence in Multicultural Education and the
Community Service Award from the city of Mount Vernon. She has shared her experience
and expertise as a consultant, working with a variety of clients in the region.
Vicente Rodriguez Ortega has an M.A. in Communications
from the University of Iowa, and a B.A. in English from the University
of Valencia (Spain). He is currently completing his dissertation, Transnational
Media Imaginaries: Cinema, Digital Technology and Uneven Globalization,
in the department of Cinema Studies at New York University. He has
taught several courses at NYU and CUNY including "Film
Theory," "Introduction
to Film," "Film Genres: the Blockbuster" and "Comparative
Directors: Tarantino/John Woo/Wong Kar-Wai." He has published
several essays in Reverse Shot and Senses
of Cinema and is now in the
process of preparing a collection of essays titled Contemporary
Spanish Cinema and Genre.
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