Jerry Aronson
 (Advanced Certificate, AFI, Los Angeles; M.S., Institute of Design, IIT, Chicago) Mr. Aronson, a Senior Instructor, is a distinguished documentary filmmaker and teacher. One of his best-known films is The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, a winner of the International Documentary Association Award in 1993, a finalist for a Peabody award, as well as over 250 national and international awards and screenings. The 2 disk, 8 hour DVD set was released in 2006 by New Yorker Films. His film The Divided Trail earned an Academy Award Nomination for best documentary short in 1978 and was broadcast on a special PBS series in 1980 entitled: Matters of Life and Death. His six-hour documentary mini-series American Music: The Roots of Country aired to wide acclaim on TBS in 1996. He has won grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and the National Endowment of the Humanities. He also collaborated with Stan Brakhage. Among his many other award winning films are Fun With Lines, Old Glory Marching Society, Superstars, and Options. Mr. Aronson taught intermediate and advanced film production, primarily focusing on the video based advanced production class: Making the Personal Documentary. Mr. Aronson taught for the department for over 34 years. He was responsible for establishing the Production Department within Film Studies with founder Virgil Grillo in 1973, established the successful internship program in 1979 and was instrumental in establishing our BA/BFA film major in 1989. Jerry was awarded the prestigious Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award in the Spring of 2006.
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