Rate My Professor Marni Zelnick

Zelnick teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in film and television producing, screenwriting, and production. She developed a new three-part course path for MFA Screenwriting students: Writing the Social Purpose Short, Directing for Screenwriters, and Producing the Social Purpose Short, along with a cross-college collaboration course pairing journalism and screenwriting students. Her committee service includes the Curriculum Committee, FTV Search Committees, DEI Committee, Center for Social Impact Communication founding committee, Tenure & Promotions Task Force, and Faculty Council. An award-winning filmmaker, she wrote, directed, and produced Druid Peak (2014), a coming-of-age story that won 11 Best Narrative Feature festival awards, and received the Sloan Feature Film Production Grant ($100,000), Sloan Writing Grant ($5,000), and Roger King Award ($10,000). She produced films including The Adderall Diaries (2016), Maladies (2013), and The Letter (2012), and wrote screenplays such as Roe v. Wade (2016), Roxana (2015), and Couples (2016), several sold to producers including James Franco.