Lee Lynch chairs the Film/Video Program. He is an award-winning filmmaker and conceptual artist who makes feature length narrative and documentary films, and performances. His work has shown nationally at such festivals as Sundance, Tribeca, AFI, Full Frame, The Chicago Underground and The New York Underground Film Festival. He has shown internationally at Rotterdam, The Viennale, and the Marseille Documentary Film Festival. In Los Angeles, he has performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Armand Hammer Museum. He recently was the recipient of a California Arts Council grant and a California Humanities grant. During the regular school year he teaches at The Echo Park Film Center, a non-profit media arts center and micro-cinema in Los Angeles. Mr. Lynch received his BFA from the School of Film at California Institute of the Arts, and his MFA from the University of Southern California. He is also a CSSSA alumnus.

Camera-less Film Production and Cinema History and Theory instructor Brigid McCaffrey received her MFA from the School of Film at California Institute of the Arts. She makes 16mm documentary films about subjects who appear to be misplaced and/or displaced in the world and the regions they encounter. Featuring Sikhs in the California desert, young female truck drivers on the American interstate, and nuns as riverboat captains, her films have been shown in Rotterdam, Portland, Lisbon, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.

Digital Video Instructor Mike Ott studied under Thom Andersen at the California Institute of the Arts where he received his Masters of Fine Arts degree in Film/Video. His latest film, Littlerock (2010), has screened at over 20 festivals internationally: Viennale, Vancouver, Torino, Cairo, Warsaw, Reykjavik, Mar Del Plata, Melbourne, etc. and has won numerous awards, including the Audience Award at the 2010 AFI Fest, a Gotham Award for "Best Film Not Playing in a Theater Near You," and in 2011, Mike won a Spirit Award for "Someone to Watch". He was also the recent recipient of the Kenneth Rainin Foundation/San Francisco Film Society grant to make his next film, Teenage Wasteland. Presently , Mike teaches film directing at the University of Southern California (USC).

In addition to the instructors, three undergraduate TA's complete the Film/Video faculty.