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Cathe Alfrey is currently editing two non-fiction books, and is working on a novel and a screenplay for a short film. She is also in the beginning stages of a mixed-media documentary project depicting her life in a wheelchair.
Amir Berhannu (FST 2008), has found sponsorship for "The Micheaux Project”, an filmmaking-focused urban youth program modeled on the Reel Girls program led by FST faculty Shannon Silva and Mariana Johnson. Amir’s program will be taking place in the Washington D.C. area in the near future.
Ashley Bogart (FST 2007) is a currently crewing as a casting assistant on the 2nd Season of Lifetime channel series Army Wives, and the Kevin Costner feature The New Daughter.
Chris Bowen (FST 2005) teaches film production to high school students in a summer program sponsored by the Arts Council of Wilson, NC.
Phillip Bryant (FST 2004) is now a happily married resident of Australia, where he earned his Graduate Diploma of Media and Communications at Deakin University in 2005. He was a guest speaker and contributing instructor for the Ringwood North Primary School (Australia) grade 5 & 6 film festivals in 2005 and 2006. He taught staff and students to shoot and edit their own movies. He is currently working on a narrative version of a random DVD project he created in grad school. He works for OPS Sound Vision and Security installing Home Theaters and Home Automation systems, and is scouring the continent for post production work.
Jessica Buchanan (FST 2005) has been accepted into the Mass Communications Master's Degree program at San Francisco State University. She starts coursework in Fall, 2008. She is currently completing a series of extension courses at UCLA.
Brandy Capps (FST 2007) lives in Los, Angeles where she works as an assistant to a Talent Publicist at 42West Public Relations. The company’s clients include Jessica Biel, Vin Diesel, Kevin Nealon, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Wilmington’s own Hilarie Burton.
Nathan Daniel (FST 2007) is the supervising editor for Legion Productions, cutting various material, including Top Sniper, which aired on the Military Channel in Spring 2007. The program’s premiere received the 2nd highest rating in Military Channel history.
Joel Davenport (FST 2006) was awarded the prestigious Jacob Javitz Fellowship, which pays an annual stipend and full graduate school tuition, which he will use to attend the MFA graduate film program at Columbia University.
Tom Desimone (FST 2007) is editing his FST Honors Film Sad State of Affairs with his film studies colleagues Colby Moore and Nelson Oliver.
Matt Dornic (FST 2003) works in digital web and mobile media. He was director of media relations and creative services for the technology company Anystream for several years, and now runs the public relations agency 3 Dog Communications. Among his clients are an independent film studio in Washington DC and an online how-to video site called MonkeySee.com.
Matt Dunkin (FST 2007) was a national finalist in American Cinema Editors student editing competition. He now works as a Digital Assets Media System Logger with NASCAR Media Group in Charlotte. He hopes to work his way into the company’s editing team, cutting NASCAR footage for the Speed Channel and other networks.
Carrie Dufresne (FST 2003) is a camera assistant for reality television productions, including Step It Up and Dance (Bravo), Beauty and the Geek (CW), The Bad Girls (Oxygen), and America’s Prom Queen (ABC Family). She’s a jr. shooter/AC on The Singing Office, and an upcoming Coolio show. She recently submitted a feature script to the Scriptapalooza competition. In August, 2007, a narrative pilot she scripted was a Scriptapalooza quarterfinalist; in February 2008 her reality pilot script was a semifinalist in the same competition.
Janine Gericke (FST 2006) has been accepted to the Pratt Institute’s masters degree program in Library Science. She starts course work in New York City in Fall 2008.
Grant Goodman (FST 2006) recently entered a feature script in the Nicholl, PAGE International, and Big Break screenwriting competitions.
Jenn Goodman Mullins (FST 2006) is vice president of Oriana East Productions, which is currently in post on its first feature length film, a mockumentary called The Legend of Granny Brown, and seeking financing for a feature project titled Miller's Ridge. Jenn was the 2008 festival director for the 8th Annual Cape Fear Independent Film festival, an annual Wilmington event screening 50+ short films and features. Mary Stuart Masterson presented her feature debut The Cake Eaters at the festival.
John Gray is a member of the popular Wilmington improvisational comedy group The Other Side. He wrote and directed the short film Focus on the Light, which premiered at the Cucalorus Film Festival in 2007.
Nick Grimm (FST 2006) lived in New York City until recently, where he worked as an office PA on the feature films P.S.: I Love You and The Bourne Ultimatum; Assistant to the Director Richard LaGravenese (P.S.: I Love You); production assistant on Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2; and personal assistant to the actor Gerard Butler (300, Phantom of the Opera), a position that has allowed him to relocate to Los Angeles.
Ryan Haggerty (FST 2005) co-founded Changing Elevations, a production company based in Ashville, North Carolina, with fellow Film Studies alumnus Martin Ramsey. They are currently shooting a documentary portrait of the Cole Brothers Circus titled Tearing Down The Tent.
Terry Hobgood (FST 2007) has been accepted into the Master of Arts degree program in Film Studies at North Carolina State University. She begins coursework in Raleigh in Fall 2008.
Cory Howard (FST 2004) is one half of the comedy duo Superkiiids! The short film Bust Out, co-starring his partner Jonathan Guggenheim and directed by fellow FST alumnus Kenneth Price, was an official selection at the Maryland Film Festival and the First Sundays Film Festival. The Superkiiids! perform regularly at the Wilmington area events, including the Cucalorus Film Festival the Cucalorus Kids Film Festival, and WE fest. Cory, Kenneth, and Jonathan are currently making Fire Sandwich, a feature length comedy.
Chris Kowalczyk (FST 2007) formed the New Jersey based film production company Wobble Studios LLC. Currently, the company is in the post-production stages of Chris’s first feature length film titled Wobble: The Weight of the Truth.
Kyle Lewis (FST 2006) is shooting a music video for the band Soviet Gunship for submission to Fuse, and is working on producing a trailer for a planned feature film.
Leif Lindhjem (FST 2004) graduated from the American Film Institute with an MFA in Screenwriting in September 2007. His is currently writing two feature scripts: Red Dot, Run for Mammoth Capital Films, and Everglade. While at AFI, he crewed on 13 short films as an electrician and 1st AD, wrote four short films produced by other students, wrote and directed two short films: Echo (2006) and Samurai (2006), and wrote 4 feature-length scripts: Southern Comfort (2006), Brentley Stomps Heads (2006), Mossadegh (2006), I Am America (2007). He was awarded the AFI Richard Levinson Endowed Scholarship in 2006, and was given the William J. Fadiman Award for the highest achievement in the screenwriting discipline at AFI in 2007. His AFI production team have advanced to the final round of 16 in an ongoing short film competition and have earned $10,000 from The Doorpost to produce a subsequent short which will compete with 15 other films for a $100,000 purse. He will be co-writing this short, and will put the potential reward towards a low-budget feature film.
Jordan Lindsay (FST 2007) has completed Zero Deficit, the short 16mm film he wrote and directed as an independent study project during his last semester at UNCW. He will begin submitting the project to film festivals in summer, 2008.
Lexi Lefkowitz’s (FST 2008) short film Indefinite Meandering is an official selection at the 41st Annual Humboldt Film Festival. This is her second acceptance to the prestigious experimental film festival in two years. Indefinite Meandering was also accepted for a September screening at the tenth annual Hi Mom! Film Festival in Chapel Hill, NC.
Lila Luchetti (FST 2004) recently moved to Los Angeles to work as an actress and casting assistant. She was recently cast in the HBO series Little Britain. She also recently completed work as an assistant to the producer of American Gladiators.
Jim Mahorney (FST 2004) has crewed as a grip/electric on many Raleigh area commercials, including spots for Duke Medicine and RBC bank, a pilot for Animal Planet, and the feature The Lena Baker Story. He plays an alligator poacher who is the first of many victims of a cannibal in the 2008 horror feature Dismal.
John Moore (FST 2006) has been accepted into the MFA film production graduate program at the University of Texas at Austin.
Sara Morris (FST 2003) recently opened her own photography business, Goodnight Gracie Photography, specializing in documentary-style candid portraits.
Jeremy Nance (FST 2006) is currently co-writing a screenplay set to star Kyra Sedgwick.
Tyler Nance (FST 2007) works as an associate producer for the television department at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. He is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Theological Studies at Reformed Theological Seminary.
John Oravec (FST 2005) moved to Los Angeles after graduation, where he’s worked as a production assistant on commercials and a producer on independent projects. In 2007, he produced All Americana, an NYU graduate thesis film. He will be working with director Tommy Reid on two features over summer, 2008, after which he plans to direct his first short film and continue writing and marketing his own feature screenplays.
Kenneth Price (FST 2004) enters the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s M.F.A. in filmmaking program in Fall 2008. He will produce a feature length documentary titled MeatMarket in 2008/09. His recently produced and co-edited the short documentary Deconfliction, which was an official selection at The Rhode Island International Film Festival, The Tribeca Film Festival, The Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series, The Sidewalk Film Festival, and the Cucalorus Film Festival. He recently directed the short film Bust Out, starring the Wilmington comedy duo Superkiiids!, which was an official selection at the Maryland Film Festival and the First Sundays Film Festival. He is currently directing Fire Sandwich, a feature length comedy starring Superkiiids Jonathan Guggenheim and Film Studies Department alumnus Cory Howard.
Jonathan Rice (FST 2007) is a production assistant for Toybox Entertainment in Los Angeles, a full-service post-production house that creates trailers, TV spots, one-sheets, and print ads for major studio projects, including Die Hard 4, Snakes on a Plane, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and
Beowulf.
Laura Riddle (FST 2004) is a documentary news production assistant for WRAL TV 5 in Raleigh. She recently worked on a series of spots at the White House, and The Perfect Tree, a documentary about the Christmas tree industry in North Carolina. She plans to enroll in Duke University's Documentary Studies program in 2008.
Stephen Rogers (FST 2004) crewed as second assistant camera on the features Southern Gothic and April Fools Day; loader on two NAPA/NASCAR commercials and commercials for Subway restaurants and Challenger Bank; electric on an Avalon music video. His acting credits include the films Carver, Little Chicago, Phreaker, and The Rage: Carrie 2, national commercials for Sony and Bojangles, and a number of theater productions in Charlotte, NC.
Flake Shaw (FST 2003) is a post-production supervisor in Los Angeles. His current credits include the television series Why I Ran HD and Sunset Tan, Season 2 HD. Recent credits include Katie Brown Workshop HD, Celebrity Rehab, I Propose, 1,000 Places HD, The Kids Are In Charge, My Ex To The Next Pilot, Curl Girls Pilot, Hi-Jinks, and Master Blasters.
Kara Still has crewed as a script supervisor on over 15 feature films, including The List, The Bleeding, Gospel Hill, Who's Your Caddy, Loggerheads, Midnight Clear, Patriotville and The Bleeding, and the television series One Tree Hill, Dawson's Creek & Surface. Kara wrote, directed, and edited the feature film Altared which screened at UNCW as part of the Frugal Filmmaking series. Altared was recently showcased by The Light Factory in Charlotte. She is currently revising her script Haley's Ken, and is writing a book titled "You've Got the Role, Now What?"
Kaylee Swanson (FST 2008) is a Peace Corps volunteer serving in the African bush of the Dosso region of Niger.
Evan Vetter (FST minor, 2004) is a Telly Award-winning producer/director, and the director of E*Media for the Port City Community Church in Wilmington. His Trouble the Water, a short documentary about Wilmington hip-hop artist Denny Cambell was featured in Cucalorus 12. This year, he produced, directed, and edited Pursuit, a short film inspired by the first eight chapters of the book of Proverbs. His latest project is an original documentary podcast that chronicles the journey of two women as they leave the safety of America to serve in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country oppressed by war and ravaged by violence against women and girls.
Jessica Ward (FST 2006) has crewed as an “A” camera 2nd Assistant Camera on the WB television series One Tree Hill, and the TNT movie The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice. She crewed as “B” camera 2nd AC on the feature films The Secret Life of Bees and The Bleeding.
Tina (Fuchs) Wanner (FST 2003) is a stunt woman working in Wilmington’s film industry. She’s credited for stunts in the recently completed The Bleeding, and The Happening; stunt utility in Elephant Garden and Cabin Fever 2, and stunt double (for lead actresses Barbara Alan Woods and Bevin Prince/Kelly Kruger in One Tree Hill and Twisted). She trains with stuntmen Dino Muccio and John Copeman.
Rebecca Weimer (FST 2008) has been selected for a post-graduate internship at Finn Hiller Casting in Los Angeles.
Joel Wells (FST 2007) is the programming coordinator for the Cucalorus Film Festival. His recent crew credits include set P.A. on the feature film Love for Sale and the ABC reality show High School Musical: Get in the Picture and dailies projectionist for The Secret Life of Bees, Bolden, and The Marc Pease Experience. He is currently working with fellow FST alumnus Amy DeLigio on the edit of the senior seminar project Monetarily Mormon.
Richard Wiebe (FST 2004) is a student in the PhD Cinema and Comparative Literature program at the University of Iowa. He was recently awarded an international programs scholarship to participate in the 2008 Summer Study in Chinese Film History and Criticism at the Beijing Film Academy. In the Fall, he will teach an undergraduate section of Contemporary Cinema At UI.
Josh Woll (FST 2005) started his production company Mosiac in Motion in February, 2007. In 2006, he served as director of photograph and editor on the zombie feature Blackwood, and 2nd unit camera operator on FST faculty Terry Linehan’s documentary Made of Salt and Water. He recently shot and edited Linehan’s short documentary Troll Story. He contributed footage to a CNN story on local altruist/entrepreneur Jock Brandis, and has been a camera operator documenting live events featuring entertainers Linda Lavin, Justin David, and Jon Brown.