Assistant Professor Benjamin Steger joined GMU's FAVS Department in the fall of 2010. Previously, Benjamin lived in Chicago, Illinois, working as a director, videographer and location sound mixer on documentary, fiction, and corporate films and videos. Benjamin also served as an adjunct professor at Columbia College Chicago and Loyola University Chicago. His first feature length documentary, Left Field (www. leftfieldthemovie.com), was well received on the film festival circuit. He is currently in postproduction on his next feature length documentary, Stage Four, a film chronicling six years of a family coping with the mother's terminal breast cancer. Benjamin has an MFA in Film and Video from Columbia College Chicago and a BA in Theatre and Film from the University of Kansas.

Thomas Britt is an Assistant Professor for the Film and Video Studies Program at George Mason University.He received his B.A. in Mass Communication and Theater, Emory & Henry College, and his M.F.A. in Film from the School of Film at Ohio University. His films and videos have screened at several festivals, including the Tucson Film and Music Festival, the Athens International Film and Video Festival, and the Southern Appalachian International Film Festival. His writing has been published in Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture, Bright Lights Film Journal, Cinephile, and in edited collections Southerners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals Since the 1970s and Habitus of the Hood (forthcoming). Britt is a staff writer and columnist for PopMatters, an international webzine of cultural criticism. For PopMatters, he has interviewed a number of artists including Yoko Ono, Harmony Korine, Albert Brooks, and Tim Heidecker. In "On Principle," his bimonthly column, he covers issues in media ethics. His most recent creative work is the screenplay for Still Summer, an internationally coproduced feature film scheduled to be shot in France in 2012.

Raul Rosado is a senior at George Mason University pursuing a B.A in Film and Video Studies with a minor in Business Management. Raul has been making films since 2006 while taking fundamentals classes in High School. Throughout college, he has participated in several film competitions in addition to working as an editor and cinematographer with Bad Weather Productions. Set to graduate in Spring 2012, he is currently working on his senior film project and writing screenplays for various projects.

Tara Lemieux is a senior within the Film and Video Studies program. She has been a freelance editor since 2009, editing for Manassas City, and The H.J. Heinz company, just to name a few. Also, Tara was a postproduction intern at Siren's Media this past winter, where she learned from and assisted the Post-Production Coordinator and Assistant Editors. Tara is extremely excited to be sharing her love of editing and filmmaking to others during the Film and Video Production Camp this coming summer.