About American Film Institute

AFI is the preeminent organization dedicated to advancing and preserving the art of film, television and other forms of the moving image. AFI trains the next generation of filmmakers at its world-renowned CONSERVATORY, provides film preservation, leadership and explores new digital technologies in movie making.

The AFI CONSERVATORY, which has just been ranked the #1 film school in the world*, has served the moving image arts since its founding in 1969. More than 3000 aspiring moving image artists have mastered their craft at the AFI CONSERVATORY. The CONSERVATORY awards the Master of Fine Arts in Cinematography, Directing, Editing, Producing, Production Design, and Screenwriting. Professional faculty members work closely with the AFI Fellows through the time-honored relationship of master and apprentice.

The AFI CONSERVATORY'S second-year program has won AFI its reputation as one of the world's leading film conservatories. AFI thesis films have garnered numerous prestigious awards, including several Oscar nominations, the Oscar for best narrative short, the Student Oscar, the Director's Guild of America Awards, several American Society of Cinematography Awards, and top honors from the American Cinema Editors. Traditionally AFI thesis films are instrumental in launching its fellows' careers in film.

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• AMY HECKERLING (DIR.) Clueless, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
  
• TERRENCE MALICK (DIR.) Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, Tree of Life
  
• DARREN ARONOFSKY (DIR.) Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, Black Swan
  
• WALLY PFISTER (CIN.) Inception, The Prestige, Memento, Batman Begins
  
• ROBERT RICHARDSON (CIN.) Kill Bill, The Aviator, Inglorious Basterds
  
• JANUSZ KAMINSKI (CIN.) Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Munich
  
• MATTHEW LIBATIQUE (CIN.) Cowboys and Aliens, Black Swan, Iron Man
  
• STEVEN ROSENBLUM (EDIT.) Braveheart, X-Men, Blood Diamond, Defiance
  
• VICTOR DU BOIS (EDIT.) The Last Samurai, Profiler, Roswell
  
• STEVE GOLIN (PRO.) Babel, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine
  
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Yeonchul Lee - Director

Originally from South Korea, Yeonchul graduated from the Theatre and Film Department of Hanyang University with a BA. He moved to Los Angeles and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in directing from American Film Institute. He is currently based in Los Angeles working in various parts of filmmaking.

Lindsay McClung - Producer

Lindsay is a native of Roanoke, Virginia. She is a 2012 graduate of the American Film Institute with a MFA in Produc- ing, and 2007 graduate of the University of Virginia with BA degrees in American Studies and Political Science. Lind- say has interned for legendary producers such as Andrew Panay, Robert W. Cort, Andrew Gunn, Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher. Additionally, she interned at the American Film Market in November 2011 with NY-based distribu- tion company Screen Media Ventures.

Lindsay is committed to raising awareness about important social, political and economic issues, both on and off- screen. She has always wanted to help change the world to be a better place, and she is dedicated to helping craft and produce films that are entertaining yet informative and that expose underrepresented issues and concerns of society. She spent two years teaching English abroad in Madrid, Spain. During her senior year of college, she worked as an assistant producer for a news talk radio station in Charlottesville, Virginia. Lindsay lived in New York City for two consecutive summers in 2005 and 2006 where she worked at 77WABC Radio and for Citi Habitats.

Carole McClintock - Cinematographer

Carole graduated NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2006 with a degree in Film and TV. She has spent the past several years since working freelance in NYC as both a gaffer and electrician on a wide variety of productions. Her work as a cinematographer has screened at several festivals, including Slamdance and Palm Springs International Shortfest. She won Best Undergraduate Cinematography at Fusion Film Festival in 2009 and received the Nestor Almendros Award for Excellence in Cinematography at NYU’s First Run Film Festival in both 2009 and 2010. She received her M.F.A in Cinematography from AFI in 2012 and is currently working as a cinematographer and camera operator in Los Angeles.

Eugenio Richer - Editor

A simple image synchronized with any corresponding sound will surely capture Eugenio’s attention. Originally from Monterrey, Mexico; Eugenio edited his first 16mm short film as part of his BA in Communication Sciences at Tecno- logico de Monterrey, in Monterrey, Mexico. He edited and post-produced many corporate videos mainly through the production house ‘CAMALEON’, which he co-founded. As part of his international education, he studied at the Uni- versity of Queensland, Australia; and a summer intensive at Vancouver Film School.

Now in Los Angeles, California, he recently received his MFA in Film Editing from the American Film Institute, where he edited six short films and two thesis films. Eugenio is currently working as a Post Production Assistant with editor Stan Salfas, A.C.E. on Nicole Holofcener’s new feature film at Fox Searchlight and while still being a student at AFI, he worked on Warner Brother’s Chernobyl Diaries as a post production intern. Eugenio can’t be happier to have worked with this amazing team and feels honored to have had the opportunity to share with them his passion for the art of film editing.