Courses Taught: CC101 Media Sound & Visual 1, CC102 Media Sound & Visual 2, SA306 Live Sound 1, SA307 Live Sound 2
Education: BAS in Motion Graphic Design, Ex’pression College for Digital Arts

Rick Giachino is a Berkeley-based producer / videographer / editor whose credits include many films which spotlight America’s diverse cultural history. He co-produced Who Owns the Past? (PBS / Independent Lens) edited Roots of Beauty (Smithsonian Institution), and shot Native Ways which explore Native American’s struggles to preserve their vanishing culture. He recently co-produced a major international documentary, The Painted Cave: Dawn of Art and edited recent film festival circuit favorites A Home on the Range: The Jewish Chicken Ranchers of Petaluma (PBS: Truly California) and Song of a Jewish Cowboy with Bonnie Burt and Judith Montell. His current project Forgiving God is in post-production.

Mr. Giachino has lectured and taught at California State University, Hayward as well as The Academy of Art University. He was a founder of The Student Film Network and StudentFilm.Net. He has directed, edited or shot hundreds of multi camera live music performances, including the 30th Annual Taiko Festival at Zellerbach Hall, a remote video segment for War Child Japan featuring B.B. King, a concert featuring Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) as well as performances by Steve Miller, Joe Satriani, Charlie Musselwhite, and many others.

Rick also teaches in the Sound Arts program.