Nathan Fullerton has been living and breathing digital media for over 30 years. Way back in the 1980’s, Nathan attended Carnegie Mellon University, where he majored in Cognitive Psychology. In the early 1990’s Nathan worked at the CMU Robotics Institute Multimedia Lab where he created courseware and video for advanced classes like Computer Vision (which was a great way to learn the ins-and-outs of lenses and optics!), kiosks for science centers, and the Just-In-Time Lecture project.

Nathan took the technology he developed at CMU to the commercial world and co-founded a company that created corporate training videos for a variety of major corporate clients. The video-based technology was granted a patent and Nathan led crews that travelled all over the U.S. shooting video on-location.

The end of Nathan’s commercial “dotcom experiment” was an offer from Apple, Inc. to be the first of their new “Creative” in-store instructors at their (then fairly new) retail stores. As a Creative for Apple, Nathan discovered his true calling - teaching - and has spent the last 15 years helping literally thousands of people create amazing things with their technology. Nathan went on to become one of the first “Creative Guest Trainers” — Creatives who travel to Apple locations around the world to train other new Creatives. Nathan is described by his students as “very patient,” “clear and easy to understand,” “a wealth of knowledge,” and “a fabulous teacher.”

Along the way, Nathan has done every job on the set at some point — writing, storyboards, lighting, audio, cinematography, editing, visual effects and CGI, and directing. His credits include the low-budget feature, Scream Park, various pilots and web series, projects for the Carnegie Science Center and the Israel Museum, and live action sequences for multiple episodes of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood.

He has received Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Audience Choice awards from the Pittsburgh 48 Hour Film Project, and his films have been screened at several festivals across US.

Nathan has a real passion for sharing his knowledge and is thrilled to have an opportunity through the WQED Filmmaking Academy to pass what he has learned to aspiring filmmakers!