Biography

Niklas Vollmer (M.F.A., University of California, San Diego, 1996) is Assistant Professor; his core interests lie in community-based media production. He has produced documentaries, educational programming, and commercials for non-profit organizations. More than twenty film festivals throughout the United States have screened his creative work. Vollmer has also received festival awards for best documentary, best editing, director’s choice, and best experimental film. He has been a Rockefeller Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship finalist and a Southern Humanities Media Fund Grant Finalist. Prior to his arrival at Georgia State, Professor Vollmer had an established production and post-production career outside academe. He worked as a non-linear editor for San Diego Public Television and Vide-Post. He was a videographer for Rock The Vote, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Deigo, and InSITE 94. Research Areas: Film Production; Documentary Film; Community-Based Media Production. Degree Track Affiliations: Ph.D. (Moving Image Studies), M.F.A., M.A. (Film/Video). Core Graduate Seminars Regularly Taught: Production; Documentary Film; Postproduction; Digital Editing; Community-Based Media Production.