Office: Foley Annex #145 Phone: 310.258.4676 Email:  gruzzin@lmu.edu Area of Expertise    Film Directing - Narrative and Documentary    Film Editing    Directing Actors

Biography
Gregory Ruzzin taught his first directing class for LMU in 1995 while simultaneously editing his feature film directing debut "Blue Skies are a Lie". He has been teaching full time at the School of Film and Television since 2005 and focuses his teaching on the director/actor relationship, film directing, and film production, both for fiction and non-fiction films. He is an active filmmaker outside of LMU and works as both a 2nd Unit Director and Film Editor in addition to writing, directing and producing his own fiction and non-fiction films.

Education
   M.F.A. in Film Production, University of Southern California, School of Film and Television (1989)
   B.G.S. with concentrations in Literature, Theater, and Film, University of Michigan, (1986)

Recent Publication and Creative Work
2010, Lost Child?, 2010, Documentary Feature, Producer and Director. HD Digital Video and S8mm Film. A film about brothers, sisters, and disability told from the "inside out" vantage point of my sister, Alyssa Anne Ruzzin, who is developmentally disabled and epileptic and lives on her own in Chicago.
Hooey, 2010, Narrative Short Film, Producer. Directed by Patrick Scott. D.P.: Charles Swanson. Super16mm Film. A young black man seeks a job in a trendy white neighborhood.
Newly completed Feature Film Screenplays:
Mal-Intent, 2009, Screenplay by Gregory Ruzzin. Genre: Psychological Thriller. All hell breaks loose when a SCIENTIST and his family are taken hostage by the man's best friend, who is on the run for killing his own wife and daughter.
PROMISE, 2008, Screenplay by Cheryl Miller, Story by Gregory Ruzzin and Cheryl Miller. Genre: Psycholgical thriller. A childless couple's lives are turned upside down one day when a lost 8 year old girl knocks on their front door.
The Transit of Venus, 2007, Screenplay by Gregory Ruzzin, Story by David Garden and Gregory Ruzzin. Genre: Historic adventure which tells the harrowing story of Captain James Cook's 1768 daring voyage to Tahiti to observe a rare astronomical event.
2nd Unit Director, Picture Editor, Heavens Fall, 2004/2005, Feature film starring Timothy Hutton, Leelee Sobieski and David Straithern. Co-production: Strata Films and Nine by Nine Productions. Summer 2007 release.
2nd Unit Director, Additional Editor, Almost Salinas, 2002 Feature film, 35mm, 90 minutes. Co-production: Strata Films and Nine by Nine Productions.
Picture Editor, Shadow Glories, 2001 Feature film, 35mm, 123 minutes. Hamzeh Mystique Films.
Director, Script polish, The Hungry Bachelors Club, 2000 Feature film, 35mm, 90 minutes. Mama's Boy, LLC. Starring Bill Nunn and Jorja Fox. Distributed by Regent Entertainment. DVD release through Razor Digital Entertainment November, 2004 under the title Food for the Heart.