Award-Winning Faculty
The Wounded Marine Careers Foundation has assembled a rotating
visiting faculty comprised of filmmakers, directors of photography,
writers, editors, cameramen, soundmen, photographers, graphic
designers and other technicians leading the industry.
Collectively, the growing faculty roster currently holds 3 Academy
Awards, 27 Emmys, 8 Cine Eagles and numerous other national and
international entertainment industry awards. The faculty roster
will also include former combat-wounded Marines and other physically
challenged professionals who currently work in the film industry
so the student Marines will be mentored by those with similar
life experiences.
Professional
Certification
Marine participants will receive comprehensive
training that will result in certification from Apple, Panasonic,
Adobe and Canon. Further, each of our sponsors has committed to
offer to assist Marine graduates with 100% job placement in the
various fields of the industry.
Union
Membership
The
International Alliance of Theatre Stage Employees (IATSE)
is fully allied with the Wounded Marine Training Center for Careers
in Media. IATSE is the major labor union representing motion picture
technicians, artists and allied crafts.
IATSE has agreed to accept into the Union and offer full accreditation
to combat-wounded Marines who have successfully completed and
graduated from the Wounded Marine Training Center for Careers
in Media. It has also committed to waiving entry/initiation fees
for participating Marines and is counting all days that the students
are enrolled in the Center towards their industry experience roster,
thereby giving graduating Marines the ability to work as professional
crew within the entertainment industry.
Job
Placement
Dan Carlson and Rod Walsh, Marines and authors of “Semper
Fi: Business Leadership the Marine Corps Way,” have joined
the faculty of the Center as Career Transition Counselors. The
Foundation will work with each graduating Marine to find the job
of their choice...and a firm place to land if and when they need
to be medically retired.
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