Jan Millsapps is a pioneering digital filmmaker, an early web innovator, and a versatile and accomplished writer. She has produced films, videos, digital and interactive cinema on subjects ranging from domestic violence to global terrorism, and has published in traditional print and online venues.

Her media work has been shown at the Smithsonian Institution, the Kennedy Center, the International Center of Photography in New York, the National Educational Film and Video Festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival, San Francisco City Hall, the National Latino Health Conference in Washington, D.C., Bay Area Kaiser Permanente medical centers, and USC's Interactive Frictions conference on new media theory and practice.

Her scholarly, political and personal essays have appeared in Film Literature Quarterly, International Film, Television and Radio Journals, the San Francisco Chronicle, and on the New York Times wire service. Her early web work was cited in a 1995 book, The 500 Best Film & Video Sites, and in the Journal of the Writer's Guild of America. She published Screwed Pooch in 2007, and has just completed her second novel, Venus on Mars (forthcoming). She has been a featured blogger on the Apple Learning Interchange and a contributing editor for the online, rich media journal, Academic Intersections.

As professor of cinema at San Francisco State University, she created and taught the first Cinema as an Online Medium class and founded a unique Interdisciplinary Digital Arts program; currently she teaches courses in digital cinema, interactive cinema, web cinema and short format screenwriting. She was profiled as an outstanding California educator in the 1998 television series Quest for Excellence.

In 2004 she was named an Apple Distinguished Educator. She is also certified as a cosmologist and as a water fitness instructor.

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