Faculty/Staff Directory
Monte Hellman
Film Directing Faculty
E-Mail:
Phone: 661.255.1050 x2150
Fax: 661.253.7824
Room: E204Q
Monte Hellman was born in New York but moved to Los Angeles at the age of five. His parents both played golf, and were champion bridge players. He studied drama at Stanford University and film at UCLA. After early careers as a portrait photographer and actor/director in the theatre, he made his first movie in 1960. He’s made five pictures with Jack Nicholson, four with Warren Oates and three with Fabio Testi. He’s shot in the Philippines, Hong Kong, Almeria, Lanzarote, London, Rome, and the states of South Dakota, Utah, Georgia, and every state from California to North Carolina. His movie Road to Nowhere was in competition at the 2010 Venice Film Festival, and won a Special Gold Lion. He currently teaches directing at California Institute of the Arts, and uses his shooting locations as a classroom. His next picture Love or Die will be shot in Lisbon, Portugal.
