Filmmakers-Ink.com After School and Summer Filmmaking Programs

Staff Biographies

Patrick McCullough
An award-winning filmmaker, and creator of the local Summer Filmmaking Program for youth, Filmmakers Ink, Patrick is currently an Artist/instructor at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts (GHAA), teaching Screenwriting, Acting for Film and Acting Technique for Filmmakers. Patrick began his filmmaking career producing and directing several educational films including the Cine Golden Eagle award winning, Sara's Diary, a teen suicide prevention film. His screenplay, Broham was a finalist for the Sundance Film Festival Screenwriting Program. His most recent project was producing and acting in the independent feature film, Beautiful Kid, with Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of Angela's Ashes. Variety cited Beautiful Kid for it's, "astonishing integrity." Patrick also founded the New England Academy of Film Arts in 2005, a one-year Film School in Northampton, MA.

Joe Hertz
A graphic artist, Joe has worked on many prestigious projects including the New York City Neighborhood Maps (visible in every subway station) cover art and illustrations for the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District and bicycle trail map of Middlesex County, NJ, Part of the design team, for Bus maps for LI bus, Nassau County, NY, and The Ride, Anne-Arbor, Michigan. Joe is an instructor at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, teaching Animation, Story boarding and Screenwriting for the Film and Television department, Storytelling Through Images and Poetry of Light, for the Creative writing Department. He has experience as a set designer for both Capital Classics Theater Company, (Merry wives of Windsor) and Oddfellow's Playhouse (Skin of Our Teeth, Prometheus Bound)

Tim McCullough
Tim has worked on several major Hollywood films and prestigious independents shooting in New Orleans and New Mexico. He's worked with Campbell Scott on his upcoming project and was on the crew for movies such as JFK with Kevin Costner, Interview With a Vampire with Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst, and the multiple Academy Award nominated film, Ray, with Jamie Foxx. His concentration is in using Special Effects to build set pieces, Set Dressing and Props.

Sabrina Durling-Jones
Sabrina is a photographer and filmmaker. She earned her B.A. as a graduate of the University of New Orleans Film program. She began her Masters Degree studies in Cinematography at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney, Australia, focusing on film and culture. She later shifted her focus toward Anthropology and is currently finishing her M.A. studies in Visual Anthropology at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago de Chile. She is presently working on her graduate thesis, a project teaching indigenous communities how to make documentaries about their cultures, from their own unique perspective.

Chosei Funahara*
Mentored by Akira Kurosawa, Chosei has produced or directed over sixty film works, music videos and commercials, worldwide. His film credits include In The Soup, which won the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize and Fatal Mission, starring Peter Fonda. Chosei received the MTV Music Award/Best American Video for his production of I Am Siam.

* Chosei will be working on his own film project this summer. We are hoping he will be available for special appearances.

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