ALEX M. GOLDBLUM
330 Melrose Street, 1st Floor
Brooklyn, New York 11237
Phone: (412) 877-1759
E-mail: AlexGoldblum@Gmail.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

The Living Theatre, New York, NY (2008 to Present)
Technical Director, Actor, Video Artist, Grant Writer
• Worked closely with an ensemble of over thirty individuals to coordinate audio-visual presentations for several stage plays; using Apple computer display technology and VDMX Video DJ software to enable video projection during the performances
• Worked as digital filmmaker-in-residence creating feature length documentaries

B&H Photo Video, New York, NY (2007 to 2010)
Professional Video Products Specialist
• Provided a high level of customer service to a very large, diverse customer base working in both telephone and retail store environments , in both English and Spanish
• Apply critical skills and knowledge to answer customer’s technical questions and suit all camera and computer needs

Vault.com, Inc, New York, NY (2007)
Associate Producer of Web Video
• Produced and published original video content to the web including videos for Fortune 500 companies’ such as Citigroup, Google, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
• Edited digital video using Apple Final Cut Pro HD
• Edited images in Adobe Photoshop and authored Flash video files
• Published to the web using HTML and networked using FTP servers
• Developed marketing and distribution plan to drive traffic to help drive traffic to a new social networking website

Invictus Films, Inc, Philadelphia, PA (2005-2006)
Assistant Producer, The Judas Kiss
• Managed post-production, color correction, and editing of this feature film
• Coordinated budgeting, marketing, and distribution of the film
• Arranged world premiere at Monte Carlo Non-Violent Film Festival in Monaco
• Engaged in film marketing and promotions at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival

EDUCATION

Pittsburgh Filmmakers Institute, Apprentice in Film, Video, & Screenwriting, 2000-2003

Temple University, BA in Film and Media Arts, Graduated Feb 1, 2007

The New School University, MA in Media Studies (Graduation Anticipated May 2011)

HONORS AND AWARDS

Temple University Scholars Award (2003-2007)
First Place, Temple University Study Abroad Photo Contest (2005)
Honorable Mention, International Student Film Festival, Beijing, China (2005)
Temple University, Graduate with Honors, Cum Laude (2007)
The New School Media Studies Departmental Scholarship Award (2009-2010)

RESEARCH & PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE

The Revolution, & Dissent in America Weekly Teach-In were two live Internet streaming video programs I helped to produce at Temple University School of Communications & Theatre from 2004-2006. The programs were directed by Susan Jacobson PhD and assistant directed by Kurtis Sensenig of the Temple Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab. The programs featured music, talk, and video clips, streaming live, featuring a live interactive chat room to accompany the streaming video. This early attempt at a web video talk show predated the launch of You Tube, and the subsequent Online Video Broadcasting Revolution, enabled by the growth of high-speed Internet technology at the dawn of the millennia.

The Snake Charmer and Goldblum in Gujarat: Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Writer, and Editor of two video documentaries produced on location in India. Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources. World Premiered in Pakistan, November 2006.

Love You So Much: Editor of an experimental HD video broadcast via satellite on VOOM Network. The picture was screened at the Beijing Film Academy, China, November 2005.

Eureka! was inspired by an esoteric philosophical text by Edgar Allen Poe, and also partly based on the adventures of the scientist and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. The play was a breakthrough in experimental performance and audience participation as the audience moved, swayed, marched, danced, and played along with the performers for the entire show. The play was the last theatrical project undertaken by Hanon Reznikov, life partner of the director Ms. Judith Malina, before his death in early 2008, shortly after the grand opening of The Living Theatre’s new space on Clinton Street in the Lower East Side. I joined this project as the assistant technical director, aiding in video art design.

The Connection was a revival of Jack Gelber’s classic play, an homage to the New York Downtown Jazz Club and bebop music scene of the 1950’s, with all of it’s good vibrations, and its addiction to junk in tow. The play opened on New Year's Eve 2009, in celebration of its 50th anniversary. The music by The Rene McLean Quartet made an unforgettable redemptive sound that lifts us from the gloom of the addicts to the heights of ecstasy, drawing from his father Jackie McLean's compositions as well as his own. Judith Malina who also played the role of Sister Salvation alongside the cast of The Living Theatre’s ensemble directed the play. I joined this project as a camera operator.

Red Noir premiered at The Living Theatre in December 2009. For this project I served as the technical director, handling the design and projection of video art in sync with the stage actors’ movements. Red Noir is a Buddhist Anarchist detective thriller, set in the shadows of the Lower East Side. Many greedy hands close a black market deal; a glamorous detective pursues a corporate agent with a values containing danger; a rogue lab technician follows them with a values containing hope; a chorus of anarchists brings sanity and peace to a world of strife and struggle. Poet Anne Waldman derived Red Noir from the metaphors of film noir and gangster movies. The play is a drama of technology, erotics... and politics.