JAN MILLSAPPS
Professor

Education/Professional Preparation

• Certificate in Cosmology, University of Central Lancashire
• Ph.D. Rhetoric and Composition, University of South Carolina
• M.A. English, Winthrop College
• B.A. with honors, visual arts, UNC-Charlotte
  

Areas of Expertise

• Web Cinema
• Interactive Cinema
• Digital Cinema
• Writing for Media (Short Format)
  

Multimedia/Web Cinema

• "Coverage," featured installation, Mill Valley Film Festival
• "Episodes," with La Casa de las Madres, San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco Public Library, Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers in Bay Area, National Latino Health Conference
• "Pleasure Island,"
• "CinePlay," featured installation, National Educational Film and Video Festival
  

Films/Videos

• "Maternal Life ," experimental narrative award, Ann Arbor Film Festival
• "True Romance," Ann Arbor award
• "Folly Beach Journal"
• "Parthenogenesis," first place award in animation, North Carolina Film Festival
  

Publications

• "Oh What a Good Boy is He," SF Chronicle
• "Hail to the Bubba in Chief," SF Examiner
• "Maya Deren, Imagist," FIlm/Literature Quarterly
• "Close-Up," Film, Radio and Television Journals
• "The Way It Was," South Carolina Fiction Award
  

Awards/Honors

• Apple Distinguished Educator, 2004-present
• Creative Work Award, 1998
• SFSU Technical Initiative Awards, 1994, 2002
  

Web Links:

• Home Page: futurecine.com
• Online Syllabi
  • CINE 310: Intro to Filmmaking
  • CINE 354: Short Format Screenwriting
  • CINE 423: Intro to Digital Filmmaking
  • CINE 623: Cinema as an Online Medium