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John Weiskopf: Photography

 

Awards & Distinctions:

·       The Oprah Winfrey Show. (Guest Filmmaker)   

·        United States Embassy representative for seminars in South America.

·        Guest Lecturer at University of Michigan Film Conference.

·        National Geographic Adventure (Approved Photographer)

·        Lowell Davies Graduate Fellowship

·        Designed and invented 16/35mm camera filter to simulate aging eyesight.

·        Newman Fellowship Award (University of Maryland)

·        Received United States Patent on Innovative Easel Design.

 

 

 

PUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHS:

·        The Los Angeles Times

·        LA Weekly

·        The Washington Redskin Review

·        Disney DYSO Newsletter

·        The Orange County Register

·        MTA Metro News & Metro Quarterly

·        The Four Winds Society

·        The Gallup Independent

·        Cannes Film Festival

·        San Fernando Valley Inter Faith Council

·        Sierra Club

·        The G.H.L.L. Grapevine

·        www.thefourwinds.com

·        www.topangamountainhouse.com

·        www.sfvic.org

Management:  (Photographic & Graphic film)

·        Dark Productions, Inc., Los Angeles, CA.,  President & CEO

·        The Aeolian Film Group, Inc., Los Angeles, CA., President & CEO

Photographer: (35mm and medium format).

·        MTA (Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority), chief photographer for magazines,  Metro News & Metro Quarterly

·        Feature Film location & portrait photographer, GOD’S WAITING LIST, shot nude & semi-nude, Los Angeles, CA. 

·        The Four Winds Society, corporate & project photographer, Park City, Utah.

·        Granada Hills Little League, sports action photographer, Granada Hills, CA.

·        National Geographic Adventure magazine, approved assignment photographer

·        United States Embassy (USIA), South America, writer and photographer

·        Peru: Mt. Salkantay, Moray & Machu Picchu, photographer.

·        “The Redskin Review”, Washington Redskins, Photographed Washington Redskin   football games. 

·        The Young Musician’s Symphony Foundation, Photographer. Edye Rugolo & Henry Mancini, Gale Purse, Producer, The Walt Disney Company.

·        “Kubrick: Inside A Film Artist's Maze” by Thomas Allen Nelson. An Indiana University Press Publication.

·        San Fernando Valley Interfaith Council, Martin Luther King Day Celebration..

·        Ballona Wetlands Land Trust, Playa Del Rey, CA. Project Photographs & Los Angeles City Planning Commission.

·        “God’s Waiting List,” Feature film still photographer

·        St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, project photographer

·        NSTA Convention, St. Louis, Missouri.

·        Galapagos Islands, Jessica Oil Spill, photojournalist.

·        Australian Consolidated Press, photographed and wrote article on media director Rosalyn Cameron for Charles Darwin Research Station, Galapagos, Ecuador.

·        “The Gallup Independent”, photographer & journalist

·        Sunrise Little League, sports photographer

Cinematographer: (35mm and 16mm)

·  Ready Or Not, Here I Come”, Broadcast PBS, WTBS, CNN Special Report, ABC (segments).

·  “Pregnancy on the Rocks: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome”, PBS (CPB), WTBS, ABC. 

·  “What About Aging?” Syndication, network and cable. 

·  “The Suzuki Way", Cable Television.  Southwestern Cable.

·  “Navy Seals”, Government Contract Film

Instructor:

·        UCLA, Former Extension School Faculty.

·        United States Embassy. Washington D.C. & La Paz, Bolivia. International Film Seminar.   

·        La Mesa College. San Diego, CA. Screenwriting and Film Theory. 

·        The Bishop's Schools. La Jolla, CA., literature and film studies.

Education:

·        University of California, Los Angeles, M.F.A. in Motion Picture & Television Production. 

·        San Diego State University, Film studies, Master

·        University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, B.A. in Literature.