Directing the Camera: How Professional Directors Use a Moving Camera to Energize Their Films

Gil Bettman is a director and an Associate Professor in the Dodge College at Chapman University. He studied creative writing with Robert Lowell at Harvard, and, in 1970, was awarded the Harvard Prize for literary excellence.

Bettman has directed three feature films: Crystal Heart, Never Too Young to Die, and Night Vision, as well as multiple episodes of the television series Fall Guy and Knight Rider.

He also directed numerous rock videos for a variety of artists including Chicago and Sammy Hagar. He recently completed The Long Road to Cabo, a feature documentary for Hagar. More information about Gil Bettman is available under “faculty” at www.ftv.chapman.edu/faculty/