Film
    Quick Facts
  • Learn about the business of film by working with local film festivals
  • Work as an intern with employers such as MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and many others
  • Study at one of the few women’s colleges in the U.S. to offer a hands-on production
    degree in digital filmmaking

Faculty

Associate Professor of Digital Film
Kerri Yost is a filmmaker inspired by Midwest themes and interested in social issues and film. Yost learned filmmaking overseas in London and co-founded a production company in Poland, producing and directing short films, educational videos and video art.

After returning home to Missouri, Yost focused on documentaries about her own community. Her films have won awards at international film festivals and have been broadcast on stations, including PBS, Free Speech T.V. and Discovery Channel, and televised around the world. Yost is also passionate about creating more opportunities for women in the film industry and is the founder and executive director of the Citizen Jane Film Festival. Yost received her B.A. in English from the University of Missouri and her M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language from Central Missouri State University.


Assistant Professor of Digital Film
Chase Thompson has been teaching in the Stephens Film program for the past five years. Thompson is a fourth-generation teacher with a passion for helping students find their creative voice through film. Aside from teaching at Stephens, he is an independent filmmaker. In 2011, his film Zielinski was selected into Slamdance, True/False and Radar Hamburg; received Best Political Doc at Philadelphia Independent; and received a Golden Reel award at the Nevada Film Festival.

Thompson is now a screener for Slamdance and is working on his next feature, The Legend of Sir Lattimore Brown. In the meantime, Thompson directed the Summer Film Institute for which he wrote and directed Threshold, which was selected into the 2013 Fargo Film Festival. He is also finishing up Grandma vs. The Woods, a short film that documents his grandmother’s incredible survival story. He is pursuing his M.S.L. (Master in Strategic Leadership) at Stephens College.


Assistant Professor of Digital Film
Steph Borklund has 10 years of experience in documentary, narrative, corporate and industrial videos as a producer, director and editor. She previously worked as director of post production in California for Left Coast Productions, where she won several Telly, Aurora and Summit Creative awards for her corporate and industrial work.

Her more recent works include serving as first assistant camera on “Getting Away Together,” a PBS television series, and co-producing and editing the documentary “Hollywood East,” a film chronicling the silent film era in Jacksonville, Fla., which recently was selected for the Jacksonville Film Festival, the Amelia Island Film Festival and the Sarasota Film Festival. Additional projects have been “Wrong Number,” a short film; “Your Indies are Showing,” an online television series; and the documentary, “Korea: Forgotten War, Remembered Heroes.” Her graduate thesis documentary, “and then we’ll talk” was officially selected to the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. Her clients include AT&T, Lean Local and McKesson Pharmaceuticals.

 

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