Meet The Team
Charles Haine
Charles Haine has taught motion picture cinematography and lighting since the fall of 2006 at Los Angeles City College. After getting started as a gaffer working in music videos, commercials and indie features for DPs including Lawson Deming (founder of Barnstorm VFX), Joe White and many others, he transitioned to education where he.has spent 20 years exploring teaching lighting from a conceptual as well as a career forcused framework.
Sarah Cawley
Sarah Cawley has balanced an active cinematographer career with a dedication to education for more than three decades. Her television cinematography credits including THE HUNTING PARTY for NBC, the new season of the hit THE TERROR for Scott Free/AMC Networks, MANIFEST for Netflix executive produced by Robert Zemeckis, and many more. In feature films she has worked extensively with Hal Hartley including the film FAY GRIM and WHERE TO LAND, MEXICO CITY and OXYGEN for Richard Shephard, and MONEY KINGS with Graham Threakston. Her music video work includings the REM video for “night swimming” and the video for Tree’s Lounge by Steve Buscemi.
She has done this while balancing a commitment to education, incluing six years running the cinematography program at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, six years as the head of cinematography at Tisch Asia in Singapore, and courses at Pratt, Maine Media Workshops, SUNY Purchase and many more.
JEROME THELIA
Jerome Thelia is a colorist, post-production supervisor, and producer with over 25 years of experience, working across genres with directors as varied as Steven Soderbergh, Prince, Ben Stiller, Terrence Malick, and Dario Argento. As a colorist, Jerome has finished over a dozen features and several series, including PBS’ Finding Your Roots, Vice’s Titans of Tech, and many shorts, including Shawn Christensen’s Academy Award winning short film Curfew. Some notable features include Fernando Nation (ESPN 30 for 30), Frank Serpico (IFC Films) and The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (A24). In the last 10 years he has worked with leading fine artists Richard Mosse and Trevor Tweeten on their multi-award winning large scale video installations, The Enclave, Incoming and Broken Spectre, which premiered at the Venice Biennale, The Barbican Museum and the National Gallery of Victoria. He has also worked with Criterion Collection as the lead colorist for the restoration of John Ford’s Stagecoach, Jean-Luc Godard’s Two or Three Things I Know About Her, and Pal Fejos’ Lonesome. More recently he contributed visual effects color work to Terrence Malick’s feature A Hidden Life.
As an educator, Jerome has taught and trained for 25 years, working with professionals at Criterion Collection, Postworks, Local Hero, and Mob Scene. He has conducted workshops in Mexico City and Tokyo, and taught the fundamentals and advanced color grading to undergraduates and graduates at the School of Visual Arts and Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema.