Andrew Kurilla
EDIM Digital Portfolio
About Me
I work at an open admission, two-year college. I am going on my ninth year as an instructor in their Communication Arts department and oversee their video production studio. I teach the majority of the video production courses in their program. My students learn the importance of reliability, commitment, responsibility, organization, respect, and working together as a professional production team/crew under the stresses of long hours and strict deadlines.
I didn't study film and video production with intentions on becoming an actual teacher. Teaching sort of found me. The institution I now work for received a media technology grant in 2005 that brought me on board to help advise and equip the institution's Communication department. The grant provided us the opportunity to purchase a ton of digital video production equipment needed to create a video production studio and bring the program up-to-date. I have been teaching there ever since.
I am also an academic advisor for approximately 40 students a semester.