Video & Film Production Faculty

What’s A Video & Film Production Training Program Without A Great Instructor?

At Columbia Academy, we take great pride in the fact that the Chief Instructor of our Video & Film Production program is an award-winning professional with nearly 30 years of experience in virtually every aspect of video and television production to her credit.

Deborah Angrave, Video & Film Production Chief Instructor, holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Radio & Television Production degree from the prestigious Ryerson Polytechnical Institute.

Since then, Deborah has worked on hundreds of video and television projects for Rogers Television, the CBC, Shaw TV, and independently, with her own production company, Waterline Productions as an award-winning Producer, Director, Director of Photography, Documentarian, Editor, and Videographer.

Most recently, Deborah has produced or executive produced:

• Bi-weekly website videos for The Vancouver Canadians Professional Baseball Club (produced with the students of Video & Film Production).
• A series of promotional videos for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra with Grammy Award winning conductor, Bramwell Tovey.
• A short film, Demon (produced with the students of Video & Film Production).
• A corporate fundraising and awareness video for The New View Society (produced with the students of Video & Film Production).
• A corporate video for the Canadian Hemochromatosis Society (produced with the students of Video & Film Production)
• A music video for the popular Vancouver band, Novastatik (produced with the students of Video & Film Production)
• 11 featured musician profiles for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
• Seven, half-hour television episodes of Backstage Pass, a multi-camera live-to-tape music performance show which aired on Shaw TV (Columbia Academy students from all three divisions crewed the series)
• A public service announcement on bicycle helmet safety for the BC Children’s Hospital which aired on Global TV and Shaw TV (again produced with an all-CA student crew)
• Two documentation projects for Continuing Studies in Science at Simon Fraser University: Food of the Future, and Water and the Future of Life on Earth

Deborah believes that the Video & Film Production learning experience is enhanced through working with clients who bring a variety of real projects to the school.  Over the past few years the Video & Film Production team has produced numerous corporate marketing videos, short films, music videos, documentaries, and pilot concepts for television.

Deborah takes pride in teaching Video & Film Production students what it takes to make it in the business.  She is particularly proud of the fact that many of our Video & Film Production students have gone on to successful careers in video, film, and television production.

Geoff Scott, Video & Film Production Instructor, has over ten years of experience in all facets of television and video production. He has worked for the CBC, Rogers Television, and the Knowledge Network as a Producer, Director, Camera Operator, Editor, Master Control Operator, and many other capacities. Geoff is currently producing a weekly television series, Tri-Cities Community TV, which airs on Shaw Television.

Ed Weaver, Video & Film Production Instructor, has nearly 30 years of production experience behind him. Ed has been a Producer, Director, Editor and Camera Operator on dramatic and comedic TV series (The Chris Isaak Show), commercials, music videos, instructional and corporate videos, films, and others.

To learn more about our Vancouver Video & Film Production school training program, or to arrange a tour of the Columbia Academy film school in Vancouver BC Canada, contact us today. Or, if your'ready to start Apply Online today, click here.