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Aaron Kopp

Adjunct Faculty

Aaron Kopp is an award-winning filmmaker and national Emmy-nominated cinematographer who grew up in the Kingdom of Swaziland. Aaron shot and co-produced the Academy Award-winning film about acid attacks in Pakistan, Saving Face. He was also cinematographer for the Sundance premiered and Academy Award-nominated film, The Hunting Ground, about sexual assault on college campuses. He has worked across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, North America, and the South Pacific on films for HBO, Netflix Originals, National Geographic, Discovery, UK Channel4, CBS, CNN, and PBS. Aaron was awarded grants from the MacArthur Foundation and the Doha Film Institute for his feature directorial debut, LIYANA, which has won 35 awards at international festivals including the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary at the LA Film Festival and the Knight Documentary Achievement Award

Nerissa Williams Scott

Adjunct Faculty

B.A., Hampton University ; M.F.A., Emerson College

Mrs. Williams—CEO/Owner of TCGT Entertainment, Boston, Ma.  (www.tcgtentertainment.com) is the Assistant Manager for the Emerson College Paramount Center Film Sound Stage in Boston, MA.  She is a graduate of Hampton University where she received a Bachelor of Art degree in Fine and Performing Arts. She has received her Masters of Fine Art degree in Film Production (emphasis in Producing) from Emerson College.  Her career experience includes over thirty years of working and learning in Performing and Media Art. She began on stage and worked her way up to the position of Producer, Creative Producer, UPM and Line Producer for Film and TV. Over the past six years she has Produced and served as Production Manager for a variety of Live Events, Theatre, Fashion films, Documentaries, Narrative Shorts and Music Videos. Her world travels have set her apart in the Creative Producer role.  She was awarded the LEF Foundation Fellowship to attend the Flaherty Seminar in upstate New York.  Her documentary endeavors have promoted her to the final rounds of the Creative Capital granting process.  She looks forward to the ongoing forward momentum of TCGT. Her favorite quote,  “Wow them with Brilliance.”