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SPEAKER / INSTRUCTOR
Mr. Kirbyson has served as an instructor or guest speaker
at more than a dozen events and institutions, including:

 
  • Faculty Member, Act One Executive Program, partnered with Pepperdine University. Faculty includes producers Dan Lin (Sherlock Holmes) & Howard Kazanjian (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi); TV Executive Producer Dean Batali (That 70s Show), as well as Studio, Network & Agency Executives Jocelyn Diaz (ABC) & Chuck Slocum (WGA) (2005-2010)

  • Guest Speaker: John Paul the Great Catholic University, San Diego:  Adjunct Professor of Film (2010)

  • Guest Speaker, Downtown Youth Behind the Camera, School of Visual Arts Theater in New York City (2010)

  • Mentor, Film Fellows Mentorship Program, Tribeca Film Festival, New York (2010)

  • Guest Speaker, Los Angeles Film Studies Center (2006-08)

  • Featured Guest Speaker, “Thought Bar”,  Presented by the Los Angeles Film Studies Center (2007)

  • Panelist, City of Angels Film Festival, Director’s Guild of America in Los Angeles; moderated Q&A with panelists Randall Wallace (Director of Pearl Harbor & Man in the Iron Mask) and Steve McEveety (Executive Producer: Braveheart, The Passion) (2006)

  • Panelist / Guest Speaker at the Faith & Film symposium in Santa Clarita, CA (2006)

  • Media Panelist at the Azusa Pacific University’s 13th annual Common Day of Learning, CA (2006)

  • Guest Speaker, Azusa Pacific University (2006)

  • Faculty, University of British Columbia Film School:  Advanced Cinematography Instructor (1997 – 2004)

  • Guest Speaker at the Manifest Arts Festival, discussing the CBC movie “The Christmas Orange”.  Also served as panelist discussing “Finding Nemo” (2004)

  • Guest Faculty at the Simon Fraser University Film School in British Columbia

  • National Film Board of Canada: instructor of 12-week film production program

rob on panel
 
film school shoot
 
presenting award
 
directing class
 
chatting with student

 

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