Faculty

Harriette Yahr

Harriette Yahr is a filmmaker and writer. Her short films have screened at festivals worldwide, including Telluride, and won awards including a Gold Plaque at the Chicago Int'l Film Festival. Her latest, Baker's Men, aired on the Sundance Channel and now airs on Logo. Her journalism has appeared in BlackBook, The Advocate, Salon.com, Nerve.com, Out Magazine, Dox, The Independent Film and Video Monthly, and other outlets. She's taught filmmaking at the University of Miami and been a guest filmmaker at Dartmouth College and elsewhere.

Michael Zam

screenwriter, script doctor, and writing coach- For five years he ran NYU's adult creative writing department, where he created and developed the program's very successful screenplay certificate program. His screenplay, Lizzie Walker Slept Here, is currently being prepped for shooting next summer in Ireland.