John D. Scott
John D. Scott
Scott has won eleven awards and multiple glowing reviews and distinctions as an independent filmmaker and television producer. He has directed fourteen projects including one feature-length documentary called Scouts Are Cancelled, which debuted at the Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival in Toronto in 2007. Currently Scott is an Assistant Professor in the Television-Radio Department in the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. Before becoming a professor Scott worked as field producer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with a consumer and media advocacy show for teens called Street Cents. Scott grew up in the Maritime Provinces in Canada.
President and sole owner of Magpie Productions established officially in 2006.
Ms. Rodriguez is a film and video artist living and working in Ithaca, New York. Ms. Rodriguez completed the Master of Fine Arts program in Film and Video Production at the University of Iowa Department of Communication and also has a degree in Broadcasting and Film from Boston University. She spent six years working in the film industry as a grip and camera assistant on feature films, music videos and television commercials. Her films and videos have screened in the United States, Canada and Europe. She has taught film production in the School of Visual Arts at Emerson College in Boston and is currently teaching production in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College.
Karen Rodriguez