Faculty

Program Director, Professor Susan Zeig has produced several nationally distributed documentaries as well as tapes for community and grassroots use. She has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment of the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the New York State Council for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Her film, "Plena is Work, Plena is Song" was broadcast on the PBS program, "POV." Another of her projects, "The University Satellite Network," successfully broadcast Latino-based programming via satellite throughout the United States. She has just finished a new documentary showcasing four examples of innovative public school teaching in New York City.

Dr. David Sterritt is film critic of The Christian Science Monitor, an international daily newspaper. He belongs to the National Society of Film Critics and has twice been elected chair of the New York Film Critics Circle. He has served on juries at international film festivals, served for several years on the programming committee of the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center, and lectures frequently at museums and universities. He is also a member of the Film Studies Faculty at Columbia University and co-chair of the University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Film Comment, Cineaste, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, The Hitchcock Annual, and many other publications as well as numerous anthologies. His books include "The Films of Alfred Hitchcock" and "The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible," both published by Cambridge University Press, as well as "Mad to be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film" and two edited collections, "Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews" and "Robert Altman: Interviews."

Professor Jamie Yerkes works as a cinematographer, an editor, and a writer/director. His short film, "Cowboy Jesus," was an official Sundance Selection and has won awards at festivals worldwide. His first feature, "Spin the Bottle" was released by TLA Releasing in 2001. TimeOut, New York called it "an accomplished piece of work," and Variety found it "tautly directed, smartly written and keenly observed…a delectable character study…a fresh and at times shocking study of friendship, loyalty and sexual identity among the Gen-X set." Jamie received his MFA in Film from New York University.

Professor Michael Atkinson has been teaching film at C.W. Post since 1996. He has been reviewing film for The Village Voice for ten years, and is the author of Ghosts in the Machine: Speculating on the Dark Heart of Pop Cinema (Limelight Eds., 2000). Blue Velvet (BFI, 1997), and a volume of poetry, One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (Word Works, 2002), which won the Washington Prize.

Professor Christopher Reed works as a filmmaker in New York City. He has directed four short films: "Mommy," "Divinity," "Libido," and "All About George," the last of which has won many awards at film festivals. He is in the process of completing a feature-length documentary, "Taryn Murphy," about a young woman with Alpha Mannosidosis, a very rare genetic disorder. Professor Reed has his M.F.A. in Film Production from New York University and his M.A. in Film Studies from Yale.