Courses Taught: Media Sound & Visual 1, Media Sound & Visual 2
Education: MFA in Film & Sculpture from California College of the Arts

Filmmaker/Author, Rick Schmidt has written, directed, shot, edited, and produced more than twenty award winning feature since 1973, which have been screened at over 50 film festivals world-wide. Rick has received four grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for his film works. His feature, A Man, a Woman, and a Killer, directed with his then roommate Wayne Wang (Joy Luck Club, Smoke, etc.) won ‘Director’s Choice’ at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and secured him an American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker’s Gran for his second feature, 1988:The Remake (London Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Channel Four/England, etc.). His fourth feature, Morgan’s Cake, made for just $15,000, was screened at the Sundance Film Festival/Dramatic Competition, Berlin International/Panorama, New Directors/New Films, San Francisco International and others.

Rick has taught his Feature Workshops internationally, including at the University of California, Santa Cruz and California College of the Arts, where he trained professors in digital video (DV).

Check out Rick’s latest movies/books at: 
www.lightvideo.com