Profile

Ian Markiewicz is an independent filmmaker, artist, and university instructor dedicated to the exploration of the potency of independent media and the filmic medium as a tool for social and environmental advocacy, cultural confluence, and artistic vision and storytelling. Ian teaches courses in film production and screenwriting at The University of the Arts and Temple University in Philadelphia and works as a freelance filmmaker in a range of capacities on projects and productions throughout the greater Philadelphia area. He spends most of his summers teaching students from around the world at the New York Film Academy programs in Paris, France, Budapest, Hungary, and Harvard University. 

In 2010, Ian collaborated on projects that won the Cine Golden Eagle Award and the Chilean Audiovisual Development Fund Award, and screened at the Los Angeles TV Festival (winner: Grand Prize; Best Drama), Independent Television Festival (winner: Best Drama), Three Rivers Film Festival (Winner: 2^nd Prize), New York Television Festival, San Francisco New Media Festival, Los Angeles Reel Film Festival, the Accolade Film, Television, New Media and Videography Competition, and the Bahamas International Film Festival. Ian’s most recent short film, Mosaic, is scheduled to begin the festival circuit in the spring of 2011. His most recent video installation collaboration, Troupe De Fetishe,premiered at the IceBox Gallery at Crane Arts in Philadelphia throughout the month of October, 2010, and received a 2010 grant from the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts and University Completion Funds Grant from Temple University. Ian holds a B.A. in Film Studies from the University of Arizona and an M.F.A. in Film and Media Arts from Temple University.