UVU’s Digital Cinema Production faculty are all film professionals who come to UVU from various parts of the film and television industry. They are award-winning writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, and editors, and they teach from experience gained first hand on film and television sets of all sizes. They are also well connected to working professionals in Utah as well as in media centers such as Los Angeles and New York. Each of them strives to provide UVU students with the best training in current production methods, practices, and technologies.
Jerell Rosales is a feature film writer/director whose feature-length directorial debut, HIGH SCHOOL LOVER, stars Academy Award nominee James Franco (127 HOURS), Paulina Singer (STELLA'S LAST SUMMER), Lana Condor (Netflix's TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE), Francois Arnaud (Showtime's THE BORGIAS) and Julia Jones (THE TWILIGHT SAGA). The film was released on Lionsgate Home video, broadcast on Lifetime/A+E Networks (USA), TF1 (France), and HBO (Romania, Hungary and Poland). Rosales is a Humanitas Prize award-winning screenwriter, a directing fellow alum of Film Independent's signature artist program, Project Involve, and an alumnus of UCLA's prestigious MFA Directing program. To date, his work has been officially selected and screened in 100+ film festivals worldwide. His latest, THE TERRORIST, garnered a Jury Award Honorable Mention at the 2020 Austin Film Festival.
Jerell Rosales on set (picture provided by Jerell Rosales)
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“UVU's DGM Cinema Production program took me from someone who had a passion for movies and helped me learn the theory, practical knowledge, and gave me the opportunities and network I needed to be able to direct the movies I wanted to make. Ultimately it gave me the foundation to make a career in video production.”
— Austin Wilson, 47 Minutes Producer
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As an professional instructor you have the opportunity to explore teaching and passing your technical skills and experience down to the next generation of professionals in the Digital Media field.
Contact Digital Media for more information
digitalmedia@uvu.edu | 801.863.8485 | Room CS 526
