FMTV Professor Nick Natalicchio signed a distribution deal with Hoosier Films for his short documentary film, The Tides That Bind. The film will be available on their streaming platform and will screen at select locations across Indiana. Nick and his wife recently welcomed a baby girl! Emma Louisa Natalicchio is 7 weeks old, happy, healthy, and proud to have a dad that is a Drexel dragon! Congratulations, Nick!
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FMTV Adjunct Professor Jon Kohl works for History Making Productions, a local outfit which has been creating a feature-length documentary about the 2013-14 bankruptcy of Detroit, Michigan, for several years. They are in the finishing stage, and it will premiere later this spring. A few months ago, they were honored to win the Library Of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Documentary Prize. This was a finishing fund that helped them reach their goal. Jon has been an Assistant Editor and chiefly, the Archival Producer for the film.
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Justin Allison (FMTV) is the online editor for two new Netflix shows, UNCOUPLED and PARTNER TRACK. Also finishing up season 4 of “MY NEXT GUEST NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION WITH DAVID LETTERMAN for Netflix.
Katrina Arias (FMTV) was promoted to Content & Creative Program Manager at Comoto Family of Brands (RevZilla).
Tim Buttner (FMTV) was cinematographer for Robby Johnson “Tryin’ to Get Over You” Music Video, which played on CMT. He was director of photography for “Jessica with TrueLimb Bionic Arm From Unlimited Tomorrow” a corporate video for a prosthetic arm company. He was also Director of Photography and Colorist for a commercial for Grillsmith Sarasota.
Josh Brede (FMTV) just completed production on a 4-part, 4-property content series for The Ritz-Carlton in partnership with multiple Hearst Magazine brands. He scripted, creative produced, and directed each of the video packages and was responsible for overseeing the delivery of 70+ individual social video assets ranging from :60 videos on-site to :06 social videos promoted on Instagram. He has shot properties in Arizona, Colorado, Washington, D.C. and Istanbul, Turkey.
Alannah Byrnes (FMTV) is working on her second documentary feature in her career. This is the first feature in the main editor role.
Dustin Carpio (FMTV) will be moving to Nancy Glass Entertainment as their Engineering Tech Lead for IT.
Paul Cross (FMTV) is working as an editor on RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE S14.
Dan Eason (FMTV) recently started a soundstage business in Portland Oregon called Vision Stages. They recently had an HBO series filming there and this summer they'll be operating a workforce development program with Mt Hood Community College Integrated Media students.
James DuBourdieu (FMTV) worked on DEADLIEST CATCH as a field producer and camera operator. He is currently working on WIZARD OF PAWS (S4) as a story producer, the show was recently picked up by National Geographic and Disney+.
Richard Hamilton (FMTV) worked as the Sound Utility on Robert Rodriguez's upcoming film Hypnotic. He was also a day player Boom Op/Utility on FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, WALKER TEXAS RANGER, and the upcoming HBO show LOVE AND DEATH. Dragonfly Audio Post, the post production sound company Ben Wong and Richard own, mixed and sound designed a horror movie called DEAD TIL DEATH for the company Liquid Death. They also mixed and sound designed the satirical horror film THE PIZZAGATE MASSACRE that was released in November. Ben mixed two feature docs called 88MPH: THE STORY OF THE DELOREAN TIME MACHINE and THE CANNONBALL RUN COUNTACH: SUPERCAR LEGEND and was one of the lead mixers on the Adobe Max conference this past fall.
Corey Jacobs (FMTV) works as a rigging and shooting grip in NYC on both major television shows and commercials. Currently as a rigging grip on the NBC Show ENDGAME.
Julianne Klein (FMTV) is currently a Story Producer at Sharp Entertainment in NYC, and works on the Tell All episodes for every show in the 90 DAY FIANCE universe. She will be Field Producing the Tell All for 90 DAY FIANCE (the main show) in April and then Story Producing it as well. Julianne works remotely in post and is currently doing so from Lima, Peru!
Jonathan Lee (FMTV) is a Union Prop Man in IATSE Local 52. His most recent show was onset dressing for an Amazon limited series, a Rachel Weisz led remake of DEAD RINGERS. Prior to that was some prop work on LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME. Bookending the COVID lockdown was an Amazon produced feature called MASTER. And he was Key Prop for the 2nd season of MODERN LOVE, also on Amazon Prime and is about to start work on an unnamed police procedural pilot.
Kevin Martin (FMTV) ARMAGEDDON TIME - grip, SHARPER - rigging grip, THE PERFECT FIND - dolly grip, LIFE & BETH S1 - dolly grip, INSIDE AMY SCHUMER S5 - dolly grip, LAW & ORDER: SVU S23 - rigging grip. Also Kevin's company Skittish Films has been selling his patented custom appleboxes with interior storage cabinets at skittishfilms.com to dozens of professionals in the film/TV industry and he has released multiple EPs and albums with his band/solo project The Dylan Farnum Look.
Max Matez (FMTV) works at Paramount + in Los Angeles in the creative marketing department for the Production Operations & Planning Team and is in charge of over 100 different project budgets. A recent accomplishment he's had was the second creation of the “Paramount Mountain” commercials that consisted of characters from different Paramount + shows/movies.
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Alex Maziekien (FMTV) is a Local 800 Graphic Designer. Alex is currently on season 1 of a new Apple+ show called PLATONIC which stars Seth Rogan and Rose Byrne and just wrapped on a Netflix feature called ME TIME with Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg. Last summer, Alex worked on DON'T WORRY DARLING which features Harry Styles and Florence Pugh. Alex was recently elected to serve on the the Art Directors Guild Board of Directors and will begin a 3-year term starting in June. Alex also continues to serve on the ADG (Art Directors Guild) Scenic, Title & Graphic Artists Council that she was elected to last April.
Kathy Monahan (FMTV) is currently working as a Senior Content Producer for Meta's in-house agency, Creative Experiences. As of this year she is leading the company brand's workstream for Metaverse and Innovation content, spanning a number of campaigns orchestrated across a team of producers. Projects range from AR/VR experiences, social activations, and traditional film and video campaigns. Kathy also manage a small team of internal editors and motion designers who take on a range of work from across our campaigns as well.
Scott Resnick (FMTV) just started BLINDSPOTTING Season 2 for Starz as the Digital Imaging Technician (DIT).
Nicole Rosen (FMTV) is currently working as a Co-Executive Producer on the show HOLIDAY WARS for the Food Network.
Alex Schwimmer (FMTV) is a staff writer on a new Nickelodeon show MAX AND THE MIDKNIGHTS.
Chandler Simms (FMTV) is a Video Editor for NYU Langone Health. The hospital institution has an an internal media department and he serves as one of the editor/animators. He also recently welcomed a baby boy.
Christopher Stewart (FMTV) was VFX Editor on Netflix's - COWBOY BEBOP and is Currently working as VFX Editor on FX's - THE OLD MAN and VFX Editor on AppleTV+'s - MYTHIC QUEST Season 3.
Kerri Sullivan (FMTV) is the editor of the book New Jersey Fan Club: Artists and Writers Celebrate the Garden State (Rutgers University Press June 17, 2022) an eclectic anthology that features personal essays, interviews, and comics from a broad group of established and emerging writers and artists. Kerri believes skills she developed while studying filmmaking at Drexel--organization, teamwork, balancing a bunch of moving parts to create a unified work--helped prepare her for the task of editing this book.
Kyle Thrash (FMTV) has a new documentary feature which is premiering at SXSW and SBIFF. It's called THE SENTENCE OF MICHAEL THOMPSON.
Wedge Wegman (FMTV) is working remotely for the Company 3 NY office doing digital dailies for multiple in-facility projects. Currently working on FLATBUSH MISDEMEANORS S1, THE EQUALIZER S2, MANIFEST S4, and THREE WOMEN S1. Previously did digital dailies near-set for DEXTER: NEW BLOOD (2020) then RAYMOND AND RAY (2021).
Jon Wolf (FMTV) Recently produced the comedy special RONNY CHIENG TAKES CHINATOWN, now available on Netflix is a Joke, and he also directed and produced a new Netflix television series, in collaboration with Higher Ground, called THE G WORD with Adam Conover, which is set to release this summer.
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The Paul F. Harron Graduate Program in Television & Media Management (TVMM) welcomes Rachel Casey, MSI to its team of talented faculty members. Rachel will be co-teaching TVMN 780 Media Research Lab alongside Program Director Michelle McHugh in the spring 2021-22 quarter. 
