Teaching

Faculty and Guest Lecturing

• Visiting Faculty in Ringling College of Art+Design‘s Film department, teaching screenwriting and senior thesis curriculum
• Professor in the The Film School at Santa Fe University of Art & Design, teaching screenwriting
• Adjunct Professor in the Film Program at Santa Fe Community College, teaching screenwriting
• Screenwriting Faculty — The Screenwriting Conference at Santa Fe
• Adjunct Professor in the Radio-TV Department at Moorpark College, teaching scriptwriting
• Visiting Professor of Screenwriting — College of Santa Fe (2002-05)
• Screenwriting Instructor for the prestigious UCLA Extension Writers’ Program (1998-2002)
• Adjunct Professor — USC Cinema School, Production Division – teaching Interactive Writing and Filmmaking (2001-2002)
• Screenwriting Faculty — Montana’s 2001 Flathead River Writers’ Conference
• Visiting Lecturer — Banff Centre for the Arts’ Multimedia Institute (read the transcript (part 1 and part 2) of a Banff Centre panel I was on)
• Game Design Certificate Advisory Committee Member — UC Irvine Extension
• Guest Lecturer — USC, UCLA, UC Irvine, the University of New Mexico, and the American Film Institute (AFI)
• Guest Speaker — Dallas Screenwriters Association, Santa Fe Complex
• Adjunct Faculty — College of the Canyons

Conferences/Film Festivals

• All American High School Film Festival — New York
• Santa Fe Film Festival
• Cinevision Film Festival — Santa Fe
• Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) Posthaus – my slideshow here
• Synapse to Screen 1.0 — Santa Fe
• The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s 2009 Intelligent Narrative Technologies symposium — Stanford
• New Mexico’s annual Media Industries Conference 2008 and Media Industries Conference (MIX) 2009 (Here’s a quick slideshow of the latter, where I moderated a Game Design Challenge)
• Edmonton (Canada)’s Local Heroes International Film Festival (writeup here).
• Computer Game Developers Conference in Silicon Valley (you can even read the exciting paper submitted to the CGDC Proceedings (the basis for my on-stage presentation))
• Digital World and Digital Hollywood — Los Angeles
• Comdex — Las Vegas
• Multimedia Live! — San Francisco
• CyberPremiere — Seattle