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| Jacob Bricca will
be appointed to adjunct assistant professor of film in July. |
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| Posted 06.16.06 |
Adjunct Continues Film Editing Career while Teaching
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Jacob Bricca ’93,
formerly a visiting assistant professor of Film Studies, will become an
adjunct assistant professor in July. His appointment is for four years.
Bricca spent several years as a full-time film editor in Los Angeles, but
left to come to Wesleyan to teach four years ago.
“I found Wesleyan a very empowering place as a student,” Bricca says. “The
years I spent here were really important in helping me define who I was and
what I thought about the world. I probably wouldn't have considered it if it
hadn't been Wesleyan, but coming back here was a really attractive idea.
I've found that I really love teaching, and still have enough time to keep
active as a filmmaker.”
Bricca is the editor of Lost in La Mancha (2002), the feature documentary
about Terry Gilliam that played in theatres worldwide, and Jimmy Scott: If
You Only Knew (2002), which won the Audience Award on PBS’s Independent Lens
series in 2004. Other recent editing credits include Tell Me Do You Miss Me
(2006), a music documentary about the rock band Luna, which premiered at the
Tribeca Film Festival in April 2006, and What A Girl Wants, a short about
the media's impact on girls’ self-image that is currently used in media
education programs throughout the country. He’s also had credits in Sink Or
Swim (1998); Max, 13 (1999); Never Land (2000) and Dreamer (2000).
As director, Bricca recently finished his first feature
Indies Under Fire: The Battle for the
American Bookstore, the first documentary to look in-depth at the
issues surrounding the growth of “super-chain” bookstores.
He's taken editing and directing awards at the Berlin Film Festival, Atlanta
Film Festival, Chicago International Film and Video Festival and Trimmer’s
Rock Film and Video Festival in Pennsylvania.
Bricca’s presented a paper titled "Found Footage and the Media Criticism
Documentary," at the 2004 University Film and Video Association Conference
and "Teaching Documentary as an Extension of Fundamental Filmmaking
Techniques," at the 2003 University Film and Video Association Conference.
At Wesleyan, Bricca has taught Sight and Sound, Advanced Filmmaking and
Senior Thesis Tutorial. In addition, he co-authored the Snowdon-funded
“Celebrating the Liberal Arts Tradition in Film” series and co-directed and
co-produced the 2004 “"Freeman Asian Scholars Program,” a series of
15-minute videos used by the Wesleyan’s Admissions Office in their
recruitment efforts for the Freeman Asian Scholars Program.
Bricca received his bachelor’s of arts in film studies and sociology from
Wesleyan and his master’s of fine arts in film editing from the American
Film Institute.
Aside from film, Bricca loves music. This interest, he says, impelled him to
go into video editing.
“When I was a kid, I made my mom listen to me play DJ as I cycled the LPs on
and off the record player. I spend at least as much time listening to and
learning about new music as I do watching new films,” he says. “At its best,
a well edited film is very musical and rhythmic even when the subject matter
has nothing to do with music.”
Bricca lives in New Haven and enjoys spending his free time with his wife
and 2-year-old-son, Rory.
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Olivia Bartlett, The Wesleyan Connection
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