OFAI at Home Faculty

Concord, Massachussetts

Ben has been making films and teaching filmmakers for decades. In his early years, he produced a short documentary for WGBH about the pros and cons of competition and worked with his students on another WGBH short about climate change and New England fishermen. In 2008, he helped with camera, sound, editing and research for the feature-length documentary Traces of the Trade, which opened the POV season that year. He cut the trailers for the 2009 and 2010 Boston Jewish Film Festivals and has since produced awareness-raising short pieces on time banks, local currencies, immigration and climate change. In 2018, he managed the feature film postproduction team at Concord Academy and is repeating the effort in the 2020-21 school year. Ben has been teaching creative technology courses for 20 years and has been leading a week-long film teacher workshop at Maine Media for 10 years. He has a Masters in Documentary Film from Goddard College.

West Lafayette, Indiana

Terese Mailhot is from Seabird Island Band. Her work has appeared in Guernica, The Guardian, Mother Jones, Medium, Al Jazeera, the Los Angeles Times, and "Best American Essays 2019." She is the New York Times bestselling author of Heart Berries: A Memoir. Her book was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Nonfiction and was selected by Emma Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for March/April 2018. Her book was also the January 2020 pick for Now Read This, a book club from PBS Newshour and The New York Times. Heart Berries was also listed as an NPR Best Book of the Year, a Library Journal Best Book of the Year, a New York Public Library Best Book of the Year, a Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year, and was one of Harper's Bazaar's Best Books of 2018. She is the recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award, and she is also the recipient of the Spalding Prize for the Promotion of Peace and Justice in Literature. She teaches creative writing at Purdue University and Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Los Angeles, California

Tim Albaugh is a producer with Royal Viking Entertainment (Black and Blue, Worth), and a graduate of the UCLA M.F.A. screenwriting program. Tim has taught screenwriting at UCLA, UC Irvine, Hollins University, Pixar Animation Studios, and Walt Disney Feature Animation. His students have sold features to major studios, networks and streaming services. Their feature film credits include the recent films All Eyez On Me, The Boy Next Door, Clash of the Titans and the Christian Bale film The Machinist. Their work in TV includes, but is not limited to, Bigger, Blackish, Insecure, Two Dope Queens, Broad City, Star Trek: Discovery, Hawaii Five-O, Wynnona Earp, iZombie, The Magicians and many others. Tim is currently executive producing The Start Up for Royal Viking Entertainment and eOne. In addition to his writing, producing and teaching, Tim is co-founder of ProPath Screenwriting, a film and television writing consultation company, and he consults and speaks at film festivals throughout the world.

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