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Liberty University debuts first round of classes in new film school


Instructor Micah Johnson sets up a red digital camera at the start of an introduction to Cinematography class at the new Zaki Gordon Cinematic Arts Center at Liberty University.

By: LIZ BARRY | The News & Advance
Published: March 31, 2012

Down the hall from Liberty University's cinematography class, Hollywood veteran Stephan Schultze surveys a storage room packed floor to ceiling with video cameras, computers, lights and sound gear — the makings of a movie set.

Since Liberty announced plans for a film school last May, the school has invested nearly $1.5 million in professional equipment and has recruited Schultze — who has credit lines in such movies as “The Abyss” and “Tremors” — to lead the program.

“The gear that we use is the same gear that you’d find on ‘The Hobbit,’ if you walked out onto the set. The same cameras, the same lighting gear, so the students won’t have to relearn anything,” said Schultze, executive director of the Zaki Gordon Cinematic Arts Center at LU.

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