School of the Arts:
Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film:
Film Faculty (Board of Study)

Iris Cahn, Chair of the Film Program

Iris Cahn
Associate Professor of Film
B.F.A., Purchase College; M.A., New York University. Editor of feature films and documentaries; director of short films. Received two Emmy Awards for specials and series. Work has appeared at the Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, New York Lincoln Center, and Robert Flaherty Film Festivals, theatrically, and on network television.
iris.cahn@purchase.edu

Paul Echeverria
Lecturer in Film (part-time, 2007–2008)
B.F.A., Purchase College; M.S., Mercy College. His debut feature, ...sol y lluvia, was awarded Best Foreign Language Film at the Long Island Film Festival. Taught filmmaking and arts education in the New York City public school system; director of the Young Filmmakers program, School of Liberal Studies & Continuing Education, Purchase College. Currently completing a 35mm feature and compilation of experimental travel videos.

Howard Enders
Associate Professor of Film and Dramatic Writing
Writer, producer, and/or director of more than 100 films. His honors include: two Emmy Awards and two nominations, a Writers Guild Award and two nominations, and a Directors Guild nomination.
howard.enders@purchase.edu

Deanna Kamiel
Assistant Professor of Film (part-time)
Studied at the University of Toronto, York University. Documentary filmmaker with a career in public television; former staff producer for the current affairs unit, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Her work produced at PBS (Nuclear Outpost, Mickey’s Diner, Prairie, Boys with Bats) has been screened at prestigious venues, including MoMA. Numerous awards include an Emmy and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Kamiel also teaches documentary in the graduate media studies program at New School University.
deanna.kamiel@purchase.edu

Tim McCann
Assistant Professor of Film (part-time)
B.F.A., Purchase College. Writer, director, and cinematographer. Feature films: Desolation Angels (International Critics Prize, Toronto Film Festival; Merchant Ivory/Kodak Award, Telluride Film Festival; Critic’s Choice, Rotterdam Film Festival); Revolution #9 (premiered at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals; Grand Jury Award, Nantucket Film Festival; NY premiere, Tribeca Film Festival); and Nowhere Man, released in 2004. McCann also directs episodic television and lectures at other colleges and universities, including Ithaca and Cornell.

Lawrence O'Neill
Lecturer in Film (part-time, 2007–2008)
B.F.A., Purchase College.

Jon Rubin
Associate Professor of Film
B.A., Yale University. Founded the Film Program at Bard College; former fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, M.I.T.; co-founder of the Boston Film/Video Foundation; founder and director of the Floating Cinema. Film credits include: Calves Ears: first prize, Bellevue Festival; At Home and Away in the Late Seventies: first prize, San Francisco Art Institute Film Festival. Grants and awards: CAPS, NEA, Massachusetts Arts and Humanities Foundation, Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship and Initiative Award, Jerome Foundation, Ford Foundation, NYSCA.
jon.rubin@purchase.edu

Robert Siegel
Associate Professor of Film
B.S., New York University. Independent producer, writer, director for more than two decades. Credits include award-winning documentaries, commercials including Coca-Cola, and feature films. Co-writer and co-producer of the HBO production Descending Angel, starring George C. Scott and Eric Roberts. Recently directed the film Swimming, starring Lauren Ambrose and Joelle Carter.
robert.siegel@purchase.edu

Alan McIntyne Smith
Lecturer in Film (part-time, 2007–2008)
B.A., University of Notre Dame.

Gregory Taylor
Associate Professor of Film
and Interim Dean, Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film
B.A., University of Toronto; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison. Specialist in film criticism and theory. Author of Artists in the Audience: Cults, Camp, and American Film Criticism.
gregory.taylor@purchase.edu

Soyoung Yoon
Lecturer in Film (part-time, 2007–2008)
B.A., Seoul National University; M.A., Stanford University.

J.D. Zeik
Assistant Professor of Film and Dramatic Writing (part-time)
B.A., Purchase College. Zeik’s original screenplay, Ronin, was filmed and released by United Artists in 1998. Writer and co-executive producer of the TNT film production of Witchblade; executive producer of the Witchblade television series now airing on TNT. Has had plays produced in both New York and Los Angeles.
john.zeik@purchase.edu

Emeritus Faculty

Miriam Arsham
Professor Emerita of Film
B.A., Hunter College; B.L.A., Columbia University. Editor of feature films, documentaries, and fine art films. A 2004 Film Preservation Honoree (Anthology Film Archives). Television credits include specials on Casals, Heifitz, and Segovia; film credits include The Guns of August and The Eleanor Roosevelt Story. A close friend and assistant to the pioneering avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren in the 1940s and 1950s, Arsham is featured in Martina Kudlacek's 2001 documentary, In the Mirror of Maya Deren.

Updated Mar. 24, 2008