Tim Russell(VII)
- Additional Crew
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Tim Russell is a young filmmaker and actor who knows that he belongs in
the entertainment industry. In his first year of college as a Liberal
Arts major, he took a video class where he was assigned to make music
videos. This class sparked a definitive focus on going to school for
television and film. Tim was able to get an extra roles in shows like
Law and Order: SVU, Person Of Interest, and Orange Is The New Black where
he was able to act and get the behind the scenes experience as well. In the fall of 2013, he
started his journey as a Digital Cinema major at Tompkins Cortland
Community College and began learning how to work with students and
teachers who all had the same objectives. During his spring semester,
he challenged himself to take upper level classes and get experience
such as Direct a short entertainment news segment, Direct and edit a
documentary about the "party-life" in colleges, and was selected to be
the Technical Director of a regionally aired television show called
High School Challenge. He was also the Director of Photography for 4
different students' short films. Tim's proudest accomplishment was
being 1 of 12 students accepted on the Hollywood: On Location course
where the students traveled to California and learn directly from
professionals of the industry. In his final semester, he starred in his first short film called "The Pale Horse" about 2 brothers surviving the apocalypse. Tim graduated in December, 2014 and now lives in Los Angeles, California.