Charles Haine is the Acting Program Director for the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College.   He has been a filmmaker and entrepreneur working in the motion picture industry since 1999, and received his MFA from USC in 2006. 

Haine founded the Academy Award nominated production company Dirty Robber in 2008 which has gone on to success in feature films, shorts as well as commercials and music videos.  He was also the founder of Coyote Post and was part of the founding team of Cinleicious.tv.

Among Haine's longform directing highlights are:the web series SALTY PIRATE and the feature filmAngel’s Perch, starring Joyce Van Patten, Ellen Crawford, Ashley Jones and Ally Walker.

Short work includes a music video for Fitz and the Tantrums  "Don't Gotta Work It Out," (which featured on Pop Up Video); fashion advertisements for Ilana Kohn, Fais Do Do  and  Emory K Holiday; and countless book trailers for Simon & Schuster, Penguin, Quirk and many others—including the breakout hit book trailer for Pride & Prejudice & Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls.

He recently published two books with Focal Press, “Business & Entrepreurship for Filmmakers” and “Color Grading 101.”

He was formerly an associate professor at Los Angeles City College. In 2011, Haine published his first book, The Urban Cyclist’s Handbook, and he appeared as the technical consultant host on the Discovery Channel show Unchained Reaction. He writes tech articles for NoFilmSchool.com, hosts a podcasts called “The Week In Film Tech,”

You can read more about Feirstein in our recent profile in the New York Times.