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Name: Sjon Ueckert

Age: 63

Birthday: July 29

College: University of Texas

Major: Film

What I do:

    Editor, Videographer,

    2d & 3d Animation,

    Graphic Designer,

    DVD Menu Design,

    Music Composition.

    Colorist and

    Compositor.

Favorite Quote:

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Contact: sjon@sjon.org

High School - General H. H. Arnold High School (DODDS) - Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany 1963

Junior College - San Jacinto College, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

Associates of Applied Science in Electronics - 3.8 G.P.A.

College - The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.

Bachelor of Science in Film - 3.75 G.P.A.

 Graduate School - The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.

15 hours towards a Master of Arts in Film - 4.0 G.P.A

1. •Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society - 1975-1978
   

2. •Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society - 1979-1981
   

3. •Founder / Director - The New Mexico Film and Video Awards - 1983
   

4. •Certificate of Appreciation - State of New Mexico - 1984
   

5. •The Hispanic Arts Foundation - Founding Board Member - 1983-1984
   

6. •First Place Gold Award for Best Comedy Script - Houston Int’l Film Festival - 1990
   

7. •Local Gold Addy Award (for the Austin Lyric Opera) - 1992
   

8. •Regional Gold Addy Award (for the Austin Lyric Opera) - 1992
   

9. •"Top Dog" Award from the AGIA (Austin Graphics Professionals) - 2000
   

10. •2010 Silver Telly Award - “The No Business Creek Tunnel.”

1965 - 1967

U.S. Army (Vietnam Era Veteran) - Honorable Discharge

1967 - 1978

Self Employed Musician (Guitar and Keyboards) with various groups. Recorded single for Columbia (1968) and an album for Certron Records (1972).

1975 - 1982

Student (college level). Produced and Directed a number of documentaries while in school including Art to Heart Talk, a P.B.S. presentation funded by the National Institute of Museum Services.

1979

Took a semester off to work as production manager for the feature The Rape of Sarah Quinn.

1982 - 1983

Senior Producer Director for KNME-TV (P.B.S.). Received the Rocky Mountain Network production grant for Niño Cochise: The Last Apache. Directed over 200 episodes of the award winning news program The Illustrated Daily.

1983 - 1985

Appointed by the New Mexico Governor as the state's Film Commissioner. Produced and Directed the nationally broadcast television program, The New Mexico Film and Video Awards, and brought New Mexico from $400,000 to over $30 Million in production budgets. Credits are available on the Feature Credits Page.

1985 - 1990

Free Lance Film Production (started as location manager and worked up through production supervisor and finally as first assistant director). Credits are available on the Feature Credits Page. 

1990 - 1997

Owner of the Interactive Multimedia Project, a multimedia production house based in Austin, Texas. Credits are available on the Other Credits Page.

1997 - Present

Free-lanceVideo Producer / Director / Editor and Multimedia Composer. Credits are available,

2005 - Present
Instructor for the Digital Media Academy  I teach Final Cut Pro I, II & III, Final Cut studio Integration  and Esthetics of Editing. I also taught a one-day Soundtrack Pro Master Class at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA for DMA.

2006 - Present

Editor - Both High Definition and Standard Definition video - short and long form.