Barton Bond, director of Clayton State University’s Film and Digital Media Center, will speak about the educational aspect of Georgia’s film boom at an upcoming conference that will also include a speaker connected to Fayetteville’s Pinewood Studios.
Bond will be a panelist at the upcoming 2015 South Metro Outlook Development Conference that will be held Feb. 18 from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Georgia International Convention Center in College Park.
The panel will be moderated by Lee Thomas, deputy commissioner of the Georgia Film, Music and Digital Entertainment office, and also include Jim Pace, Principal, Group VI, the development company for Pinewood Studios.
Bond will have five minutes to make a presentation and then the panel will take questions.
Bond said he will focus on the educational aspect of the film boom in the state of Georgia while emphasizing the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia’s “Film Academy,” the project headed by Dr. Cecil Staton.
Bond initially came to Georgia and Clayton State University from New Mexico with 45 years of experience working in electronic media – the last 25 of which focused on teaching at community colleges.
In 2003 he developed and taught the first film technician training program in the country. His current program at Clayton State’s Film and Digital Media Center is the second and is entering its second year.
Bond began his media career at the tender age of 15 at a little radio station in Taos, N.M., and worked in production and management at public radio and television stations in New Mexico, central California and Idaho. Those stations won several national and regional awards for programming, fund-raising and audience development.
He began his teaching career in 1987 at Santa Fe Community College, where he developed academic programs in electronic media production and digital media. He holds B.A. in Communication from New Mexico State University and also had more than 50 hours of graduate credits in communication and business administration.
He has served on numerous local, state and national media and technology advisory groups and has made presentations at several national conferences.
