Christopher Llewellyn Reed is Professor
and Chair of the Department of Film and Moving Image at Stevenson University, and is a film
critic, filmmaker and longtime educator. A brand-new member of the Washington
DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic, Chris is
lead film critic at Hammer to Nail, an online magazine devoted
to independent cinema; film critic at Film
Festival Today; the host of Dragon Digital MediaÕs award-winning
"Reel Talk with Christopher Llewellyn Reed";
a regular film commentator for the "Roughly SpeakingÓ podcast with Dan Rodricks at The Baltimore Sun; an
occasional writer for the online magazine BmoreArt; and
the author of Film Editing: Theory and Practice. In
addition, since January, 2018, he is one of three co-creators of The Fog of Truth,
a podcast devoted to documentary cinema.
Over the years, Professor Reed has worked on numerous
award-winning films as director, cinematographer, and editor. He
holds a B.A. from Harvard University, in Slavic Languages and Literatures
(concentration in Russian), an M.A from Yale University, in Russian and East
European Studies (concentration in Russian Film), and an M.F.A. from the
Graduate Film Program at New York UniversityÕs Tisch School
of the Arts.
Contact:
Chair/Professor | Film & Moving
Image
School of Design | Stevenson University
| Office SD128
11100 Ted Herget Way,
Owings Mills, MD 21117
chrisreedfilm.com / sufilmvideo.org
tel: 443-394-9543
Degrees:
_ TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS / NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
M.F.A.
in Film Production received May, 2003. Awarded competitive Teaching
Assistantship.
Extensive
coursework in all aspects of filmmaking.
_ YALE UNIVERSITY
M.A.
in Russian and East European Studies received December, 1993.
Studied
history of Russian cinema and theater. Awarded competitive
four-month
fellowship for MasterÕs Thesis research at Moscow State University
on
the films of Andrei Tarkovsky.
_ HARVARD UNIVERSITY
B.A.,
magna cum laude, in Slavic Languages and Literatures received June,
1990.
Significant
coursework in Russian language. Wrote academic thesis on works of Nikolai
Gogol.