Description:
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Department of Art and Art History at UTA in the area of study of Cinematic Arts, through an endowed professorship. The position requires the faculty member to be a filmmaker and storyteller with experience of at least 12 years of full-time teaching with undergraduate film students, an active record of creative scholarship, and a history of nationally and/or internationally recognized fiction or nonfiction films, digital media, and/or television as a Director, Producer, Writer, and/or Showrunner, meriting appointment with tenure at the rank of Full Professor.
The successful candidate will teach undergraduate courses delivering curriculum focused on, but not limited to, Directing, Cinematography, and Post-Production. Expertise and a commitment to incorporating new technologies such as Virtual Production and Artificial Intelligence are highly encouraged. The candidate also must be able to teach and mentor students in the Cinematic Arts track of our MFA Art degree program.
Additionally, the faculty member will contribute to developing further the area of study, serving also to advise area students, to participate in departmental and professionally relevant community service, and contributing to professional skills development opportunities for our students, including through the Maverick Film Productions agency.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Candidate must demonstrate strong training within the field of filmmaking, with an excellent understanding of audio-visual storytelling, the roles or practices of screenwriting, cinematography, sound, the range of post-production techniques and processes, and an understanding of film theory and history, with the ability to support related Cinematic Arts curriculum to students at appropriate levels.
- Continue practicing as an active, exhibiting film maker, with national and / or international recognition for fiction or nonfiction films, digital media, and/or television as a Director, Producer, Writer, and/or Showrunner.
- Demonstrate continuing excellent record of creative scholarship, including presentations, screenings, exhibitions, and professional involvement in the field, including at film festivals, and through competition success.
- Work as a filmmaker actively engaged with the future of image making and new directions in the field, experienced with a wide array of approaches and contemporary techniques, also showing familiarity with relevant historical and contemporary discourse in the field.
- Qualified to teach relevant curriculum in Cinematic Arts at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, with the ability to teach in at least two of the following areas: directing, producing, cinematography, sound recording and design, and/or postproduction.
- Ability to teach students how to prepare for production assistant roles on film production crews on set and in the production office setting.
- Contribute to developing further the area of study in Cinematic Arts.
- Ability to lead students in professional skills development opportunities, including through the Maverick Film Productions agency.
- Participate effectively in departmental and professionally relevant community service.
- Excellent communication skills in writing and verbally.
- Effective communication with other faculty and students.
Required Qualifications
- A terminal degree (MFA) in Film and Video, Cinematic Arts, or related Film Production program from an accredited (recognized equivalent) university.
- Professional filmmaking experience.
- Demonstrate experience of at least 12 years of full-time university-level teaching of undergraduate film students.
- Ability to be appointed as Full Professor in Cinematic Arts with Tenure in the Department of Art and Art History at UTA.
- Demonstrate knowledge of relevant filmmaking principles, standards, and concepts, and of pertinent pedagogical approaches for teaching the range of aspects of filmmaking and Cinematic Arts.
- Hold expertise in Mac OS and Adobe Suite, particularly in Premiere Pro, Audition, and After Effects.
- Ability to teach at all levels of the area’s undergraduate and graduate curriculum.
- Demonstrate ability to contribute to the excellence of the academic community through creative activity / research, teaching, advising, and service.
- Ability to deliver effective critique of student work in both formative and summative feedback activities.
- Employ excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Actively research at a national and/or international level.
- Ability to mentor and advise students effectively at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
- Demonstrate awareness of the UTA 2030 Strategic Plan and consideration of how we can develop career preparedness and cultural initiatives to contribute to the UTA 2030 goals and efforts.