Faculty and Staff
Milton Riess
Professor of Film Production
Milton Riess is currently Professor of Film Production at Santa Fe Community College. His 30 years of production experience include Producer, Writer, Director, Lighting Director, Technical Director, Photo Journalist and Actor. He recently moved to Santa Fe from Los Angeles where he worked for NBC/Universal, E! Network, Style Network among other companies. Mostly recently he was creator, writer and executive producer of a pilot for a science fiction TV series, “The Kammler Code.”
Jessi Walsh
Full time Faculty
Jessi T Walsh teaches Production Design/Art Dept and Video Production courses in the Film Department at SFCC.
I am an Interdisciplinary Artist who works in visual, sensory/sonic, and earthen artforms. My formative practice encompasses drawing, printmaking, photography, installation, metals, and sculpture, which I studied at Florida State University, earning a BFA in Studio Arts in 1996. Filmmaking, sound art, writing, and performance art more formally emerged while in grad school at Columbia College Chicago in the 2000s. I have exhibited, performed, and screened my work across the US, and in Europe and México. I have been teaching most all realms of artmaking and arts-integrated processes to students K-12, College, and Adult since Y2K.
My crew and build shop experience in spectacle and puppet theatre led me to working on set for low-budget, no-budget, and award-winning indie films and preposterous B-movies as a one-person Art Dept and Production Designer, specializing in vegan gore, as well as being set photographer. I co-produced a DIY horror-comedie film festival which ran for 9 glorious years in Chicago. When you find amazing collaborators, the path of filmmaking builds itself.
I encourage my students to investigate filmmaking as an interdisciplinary process and an expansive container for all the collective experience they bring with them. Film is a place where everything and everyone belongs; no skill, curiosity, nor experiment is irrelevant. Ask me how I know.
TJ Jones
Thomas Jones (TJ) – SFCC Bio
TJ Jones is a Graduate od the SFCC Film Program and has worked for several years in the Film and Television industry in NM providing Lighting, Electrical and Grip Equipment at MBS Equipment Company, where started as a Warehouse Associate, working his way up to Warehouse Foreman, and finally to Rental Agent.
He also works as a Comedian, Event Promoter, and DJ in Santa Fe.
He has been an Instructor at the SFCC Film School for over 3 Years and Teaches the Film Crew 1 Lab and the Advanced Grip Class.
Scott Milder
Adjunct Faculty, Film Program
Scott Milder was born and raised in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He began writing at an early age, publishing short fiction in various indie horror magazines while attending college in Alamosa, CO. He graduated in 2000, after which he spent a semester teaching college English and then a year working as a technical writer at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
He went back to school in 2002, where he switched his focus from prose fiction to screenwriting and film production. He has a B.A. in English from Adams State College in Alamosa, CO, as well as a B.A. in Media Arts from the University of New Mexico (2004) and an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from Boston University (2007).
Patrick Reid
He has helped grow SFCC's equipment from a few cameras and light kits to over a million dollars worth of industry standard camera, lighting and grip gear. He also works as a freelance gaffer and grip. tacticalvideoworks.com