ROSS MORIN 
      Filmmaker/Teacher   

Ross Morin is an award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor. He is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Film Studies at Connecticut College where he teaches filmmaking. He is the co-founder of Kiltered Productions and has produced five award-winning films. His 2015 feature film, A Wheel out of Kilter, won the Indie Spirit Award at the Princeton Independent Film Festival and Best Feature Film at the Macabre Faire Film Festival. His most recent film, A Peculiar Thud, was the official selection of over 30 film festivals around the world and won the Best Horror award at the Coney Island Film Festival and the Best Horror Short at the Southeast New England Film, Music and Art Festival. He once called Tommy Wiseau's The Room, "The Citizen Kane of bad movies."

Ross grew up in southern Maine where he began making films when he was 13 years old. He received his BA in Film Studies and Psychology from Connecticut College in 2005 where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He received his MFA in Film and Video Production from Ohio University in 2008 where he graduated Phi Kappa Phi and won the Graduate Associate Outstanding Teacher Award. In 2018, he was awarded Connecticut College's highest teaching honor, the John S. King Memorial Teaching Award for teaching excellence and the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Faculty Mentor Award.

Ross now teaches at his alma mater where he balances his time between teaching, filmmaking, and mountain biking. 


Email: Ross.Morin@gmail.com
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