Frank Rinaldi is a faculty member in the 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. In their program notes, the theater curators identified it as “…one of the most incomparable, engaging and foreboding debuts of recent years.” His passion is teaching a diverse body of young storytellers who express uniquely 21st Century worldviews.
Frank’s 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.
Frank 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.
Professor Frank Rinaldi 