Rob Sabal has been a filmmaker and media educator for more than 30 years. Sabal  received his MFA in film and video from Northwestern University and has taught film  and video production at St. Edward’s University, Trinity University (San Antonio), the  University of Arizona, the University of Texas-Austin, and at Emerson College where  he served as director of the film program, chair of the Department of Visual and  Media Arts, and as dean of the School of the Arts. In 2012-2013 he was an ACE Fellow  in the president’s office at Suffolk University. He is a former president of the  University Film and Video Association and a current board member of the Strategic  National Arts Alumni Project. 

Sabal has produced more than 20 narrative and experimental films that have  screened at national and international film festivals. His feature narrative, Escape to  White Mountain, was distributed internationally and broadcast/cablecast in Latin  America, the Middle East, and Korea. Sabal’s work has been supported with funds  from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arizona Council on the Arts, the  Arizona Humanities Council, and the DeGrazia Foundation. He is the recipient of the  Arizona Artist Award.  

Sabal’s writing about filmmaking and film education has been published in  the Independent Film and Video Monthly, NewEnglandFilm.com and the Journal of Film  and Video. He has guest edited two special issues of the Journal of Film and Video, one  on media production pedagogy and one on approaches to teaching collaboration in media production.