Frank Rinaldi
Adjunct
Frank Rinaldi is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at CUNY Brooklyn College Department of Film. He is a Slamdance Grand Jury Award winning filmmaker who has sold screenplays and teleplays to Hollywood. His feature Sundowning received theatrical distribution at Anthology Film Archives, New York City’s most prestigious art house venue. His passion is teaching a diverse body of young storytellers who express uniquely 21st Century worldviews. His creative work navigates the boundaries between character-driven narrative and experimental filmmaking. He is interested in investigating how non-linear techniques and devices can be incorporated into storytelling and conversely how storytelling can facilitate experimental agendas. He received an M.F.A. in Film Production at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Asia in Singapore and a B.F.A. in Dramatic Writing and Cinema Studies at New York University, where he was awarded the Waldo Salt Undergraduate Screenwriting Award.
