A Million Dreams – Alex Boye
Made by Utah Tech Studios
Behind the Scenes: The Making of “A Million Dreams” – Alex Boye
UT Studios was designated as a public/private partnership by the Utah State Legislature in 2012. As such it functions as an integral part of the Digital Film Degree at Utah Tech University, supplementing the program’s academic offerings.
Our students benefit from UT Studios’ outreach to the commercial production world, working professionally with clients, our faculty and staff to further develop skills that they learn in the classroom. In addition, the compensation received for this work is vital to the growth of the Digital Film Degree. All profits are used to purchase equipment and facility improvement to prepare our students for the technological advancements of current Digital Film production.
UT Studios’ film mission is to provide students with real-world experience in their chosen field and add financial stability to a program which is growing toward Film School status; the future Utah Tech University College of Cinematic Arts.
Our Team
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Ben Braten
Ben Braten has been working behind the camera for the past 17 years, directing and lensing commercials, documentaries, short films and the occasional narrative. He satisfies his obsessive-compulsive urges by locking himself away in dark edit suites for days at a time and running post on everything he shoots. He is well versed in a variety of NLE systems as well as sound finishing and color correction processes.
He teaches production and post-production courses at Utah Tech University and, in his spare time, Ben pursued an MFA in photography.
Tisa Zito
Tisa has fond memories of studying photojournalism at Hofstra University in the darkroom. She graduated with a Visual Communications degree from Monroe Community after studying film at Maryland Institute College of the Arts in Baltimore. She earned her Bachelors of Film and Animation with an emphasis in Documentary production at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. She is the Producer, Director, Cinematographer, and Editor of ForeverMoore; The Angelo Project focusing on the life of the lead singer of Fishbone for which she was interviewed on Fox News and NPR. Her film is now streaming on Apple TV, iTunes, and Amazon. Looking back on unique memories filming for KEZI Channel 9 in Oregon and operating the Live truck at Duck games, she now produces for Utah Tech Creative Studios as well as runs her own company, Old Soul Artistry. Previous clients include MDVIP, Boyscouts of America, SAMHSA, & Project Lean Nation. She is a NOLS Mexico graduate and finds peace in photographing the outdoors with Sprocket her basset hound.
Alex Chamberlain
MFA, Art Department Chair. Associate Professor — Animation & Photography
Alex’s objective as an artist is always to communicate and share. His chosen tools are most often animation and photography; sometimes a mix of the two. His life has been fundamentally enhanced by the democratization of creative tools that has happened over the past few decades. He loves to create, Ioves to teach, and loves his desert home.