Experts Guide

Film

Hi-Res Photo	Tina Olsin Lent Chair of the Department of Fine Arts Fields of Expertise: Imaging & Media > Film
Dept/Division:	College of Liberal Arts
E-Mail:	tnlgsh@rit.edu
News Contact:	Vienna Carvalho, vnccom@rit.edu, 585-475-4952
Website:	www.rit.edu/cla/finearts/
Tina Olsin Lent currently serves as chair of the Department of Fine Arts and as a professor of film history and art history. She is a recognized expert in women in film and American film comedy and her work has appeared in a number of books and journals, including Classical Hollywood Comedy published by the American Film Institute. She is also co-editor of Past Meets Present: Recovering the History of Women at Rochester Institute of Technology, 1885-1945. Lent holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester.

Hi-Res Photo	Marla Schweppe Associate Professor Fields of Expertise: Imaging & Media > Animation Imaging & Media > Film
Dept/Division:	College of Imaging Arts and Sciences
E-Mail:	mkspph@rit.edu
News Contact:	Kevin Fuller, kmfuns@rit.edu, 585-475-6241
Website:	http://www.rit.edu/~661www/dept/film/film.html
Marla Schweppe is director of visualization in RIT's College of Imaging Arts and Sciences.

Hi-Res Photo	Malcolm Spaull Chair, School of Film and Animation Fields of Expertise: Imaging & Media > Animation Imaging & Media > Film Imaging & Media > New Media
Dept/Division:	College of Imaging Arts and Sciences
E-Mail:	mgscdm@rit.edu
News Contact:	Kevin Fuller, kmfuns@rit.edu, 585-475-6241
Website:	http://cias.rit.edu/
Malcolm Spaull works in and teaches all aspects of live action and animated digital moving images. He is an expert in filmmaking and cinema and an award-winning filmmaker whose work has been seen on HBO, Showtime, the Learning Channel and other regional and national cable networks. He is director of the Center for Digital Media at RIT. He can knowledgeably discuss digital video, documentary film, electronic cinema, new media, interactive multimedia, computer animation and digital compositing. Spaull began teaching at RIT in 1980 and, from 1985 to 1992, served as chair of the Film/ Video department. From 1994 to 1999 he headed the Center for Digital Media at RIT, which provided new media courseware and created large scale interactive projects for Xerox Corp. and other clients. Spaull continues to produce and direct educational and commercial videos for national and local organizations. Spaull earned his master's degree at Rochester Institute of Technology.