Storytelling for the screen
Filmmaking Alumni
Nia Warren
Nia Warren is an actress and director, known for Son of Oakland (2020), Locks (2009), and Sunshine Room (2020). Nia is also working on her own film and is interested in politics and African American identity.
Nia visited our film classes during Fall of 2020 to talk about the experience of attending and applying for the USC film school.
Nate Winslow
Nate has been working in the entertainment industry for about ten years, where he got his start working for Franklin Leonard at The Black List. He worked as an assistant on the film side for a producer at Universal, and then on the studio side at 20th Century Fox. Nate spent time as an executive at a VR studio before running development for a production company for a year until moving into TV three years ago. He's been an executive at wiip, an independent TV studio, since 2018. The studio's two shows currently on the air are Mare of Eastown and Dickinson. There, he helps oversee drama, animation, and video games.
Nate visited our film classes during Spring of 2021 to talk about the transition from Athenian to UC Santa Cruz and having liberal arts education. He also talked about about how to break into the business as an assistant and what a TV producer does.
Nora Winslow
Nora works as a TV screenwriter and is known for working on Future Man.
She visited during Spring of 2021 to the Filmmaking class to talk about the transition from Athenian to Dartmouth College. She also talked about what it was like for her to break into the industry as an assistant for a talent agency as she had not focused on filmmaking during college.
Jesse Rosenberg
Jesse Rosenberg has been working as a freelance video creator and photographer since graduating from New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 2014. He is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since January 2016, he has been working as a camera operator on multiple travel series with shoots completed in 29 countries over six continents. He was a camera operator for BBC Earth’s Extreme Treks (Season 2 and 3), Discovery Channel’s Expedition Asia, and Tencent’s Granny Knows Best. In addition to working on travel shows, Jesse has directed and produced branded content for a wide range of companies and non-profit organizations including Skullcandy, Google Play Music, LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and Swim Across America. He has filmed news pieces for CNN and NBC and also has experience directing live music videos for rock bands such as Cage the Elephant.
Jesse visited our film classes during Fall of 2020 via zoom to talk.
Audrey Annison
After graduating from Athenian in 2016, Audrey attended Fordham University in New York City, where she studied just about everything she could get her hands on. During her time at Fordham, she took on a number of Film/TV internships, ranging from Documentary Development at Field Day Productions in London to General Production at The Dr. Oz Show and Late Night with Seth Meyers, before graduating in 2020 with a bachelor's degree in Film & Television. She's now a part of the Emmy Award–winning Unscripted Casting team at ITV America, where she works to find real people for shows like Netflix's Queer Eye, CBS's Love Island, and History Channel's Alone. In other words: she sends out a lot of Instagram DMs and hops on a lot of phone calls, but she loves having the opportunity to meet and chat with people from so many different walks of life and provide them with the opportunity to show the world what makes them special.
Jeremy Lu
Jeremy Lu is a recent graduate of The Athenian School. Since 2010, he has been making films and writing scripts as a hobby but now hopes to pursue it as a career. For the next four years, he will be studying film and television production at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and couldn’t be more excited.
Courtney Brock
After starting her career at Blumhouse and Legendary Entertainment, working closely on films such as Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Enola Holmes, and Dune, Courtney was recently promoted to producer at Kroll and Co. Entertainment. Outside development Courtney also mentors new graduates of her alma mater, NYU Tisch, where she attended film school.
She visited during Spring of 2021 to the Filmmaking class to talk about making portfolio films and getting into NYU. She also talked about breaking into the film industry for mainstream films as an assistant and how to move up the ladder to a producer level.
Jackson Yeomans
Jackson visited during Fall of 2020 to the Filmmaking class to speak about what it takes to get into NYU. He is a writer and director.