Instructors

MARTIN PITTS	Director / Writer / Cinematographer Martin Pitts has an extensive background in all aspects of television and motion picture production. In the Music video world Pitts has directed varied artists such as Roberta Flack, Peabo Bryson, Babyface, Phish, Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, the Allman Brothers Band, the Bee Gees and recently Barry Gibb in a solo concert. As a director, Pitts staged and directed original plays with the Writers and Directors Unit of the Actors Studio. He has taught UCLA Extension courses, and Pitts has been a guest workshop speaker at the USC film school and the American Film Institute. Pitts was second unit director of photography on Sidney Pollack's classic film, ABSENCE OF MALICE. He has produced for actor/director Sam Bottoms on location in Vietnam. He produced Barry Primus' first film, FINAL STAGE, with Richard Romanus and John P. Ryan.
AARON POPE	Director Aaron is a working screenwriter, producer and director in Hollywood California, he worked his way up from crew member positions as Script Supervisor, AD, 2nd Unit Director to screenwriter on over 40 feature films to Director. As a screenwriter he has written Vampire Clan, Speck, Air Marshal, Rampage, Boston Strangler, Taphephobia, Pandemic. He has gone on to Producer Boston Strangler, Pandemic and Direct the new upcoming feature Taphephobia, starring Estella Warren, Desmond Harrington and Danny Trejo. Aaron is in Pre-production on a new Feature called Crosshairs. In between working as a Screenwriter/ Producer/ Director, Aaron has agreed to pass on his knowledge to the students at Hollywood Digital Film School.
RANDY REDROAD	Director / Writer / Editor Randy Redroad is a working Screenwriter and Director in Los Angeles California. Randy Redroad's feature film debut, THE DOE BOY premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker's Award. The film collected fourteen other festival awards and a nomination for the IFP/Gotham Open Palm Award For Outstanding Directorial Debut. In 2003, Randy directed and edited MOCCASIN FLATS, a speculative Canadian television pilot, for Big Soul Productions. "Flats" premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and went on to become the first all-Native produced television series in North American History, currently in it's third season. Randy's upcoming second feature, THE SPACE BETWEEN ALL THINGS, was selected for the 2005 Tribeca All Access Program and The Sundance Producer's Lab.