Michael Korolenko was\u00a0 born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, New York, which in itself is a\u00a0 frightening concept to contemplate. He did undergraduate work in English and\u00a0 film at Vassar College where he was in one of the first co-educational\u00a0 graduating classes which to this day causes him endless consternation. While\u00a0 doing graduate work in film and communication at Boston University, he\u00a0 experienced both the worst winter and the worst summer in Boston’s history. He\u00a0 received his Masters of Science degree for his thesis film, “SINCE\u00a0 ’45,” a documentary on recent American history and the media. The film\u00a0 went on to win a student Academy Award for Best Documentary as well as the\u00a0 Focus Competition Award. It was screened at both FILMEX in Los Angeles and the\u00a0 New York Film Festival and was televised nationally on Showtime, the Discovery\u00a0 Channel, and Jim Lehrer’s PBS series “U.S. Chronicle.”<\/p>\n
During the period of time that Michael lived in New York City, he made his\u00a0 living as a writer and a maker of films. He was on the ground floor of\u00a0 interactive multimedia, working with the firm of Ramirez and Woods and MIT on\u00a0 an interactive exhibit for the US Pavilion at the Knoxville World’s Fair. He\u00a0 also created an interactive multimedia science lesson chosen by IBM for use\u00a0 throughout Europe, a project on which he foolishly accepted a flat fee. He also\u00a0 made numerous independent films, including “CHORDS OF FAME,” a\u00a0 musical biography about American folk singer Phil Ochs and the 1960’s, funded\u00a0 in part by grants from both The American Film Institute and The National\u00a0 Endowment for the Arts. He made a short “electric folk operetta,”\u00a0 “TAMLIN,” based on an old Scottish ballad, as well as numerous\u00a0 corporate films. He also appeared as an extra in the feature film\u00a0 “Somewhere In Time,” but his big scene where he bumped into\u00a0 Christopher Plummer was cut.<\/p>\n
Michael moved out to Issaquah, Washington in 1986, working for awhile with Phil\u00a0 Lucas Productions, Inc., a Native American owned company. While at Lucas\u00a0 Productions, Michael wrote the legend sequences of the “Walking With\u00a0 Grandfather” series. Shown nationally on PBS and the winner of the\u00a0 National Educational Gold Apple Award, the series dramatized Native Indian\u00a0 legends. Michael began teaching at BC in 1992 and went on to make a series of\u00a0 short documentaries for the school dealing with new technologies. During this\u00a0 period, Michael\u2019s fantasy story “Reynardine” was in the “Life On\u00a0 The Border” anthology series published by TOR and his textbook “Writing\u00a0 for Multimedia” was published by Wadsworth. His second textbook,\u00a0 \u201cStorytelling and Design For The Digital Age\u201d, co-written with Bruce Wolcott,\u00a0 was published by Pearson.<\/p>\n
In 1999, “Arcadia,” another fantasy tale by Michael was\u00a0 published in “The Essential Bordertown” anthology. He worked for a\u00a0 while at Microsoft as a writer for MSN’s Online series about modern U.S.\u00a0 History: “Retrospect 360.” It was here that he learned never to\u00a0 threaten the life of a graphic designer. Michael has also spent the last eight\u00a0 summers working on dramatic videos as part of his “Making Movies”\u00a0 class (no wonder he has no social life). “ROCKET MAN:\u00a0 The\u00a0 Musical!”, the third of a trilogy of really bad 1930’s adventure serials\u00a0 was his last Making Movies opus and \u201cSamantha In Waiting\u201d was shot in the\u00a0 summer of 2009 by his Directing Actors for Film class. Last year, he directed a\u00a0 professional dramatic film titled “Of Yesterday and Tomorrow” where\u00a0 many BC film students worked as crew and assistants.\u00a0 He has also recently completed “Rocket Man and the Aerial Fortress.” His newest textbook,\u00a0 “Digital Futurama” co-written by Bruce Wolcott was also recently\u00a0 published by Kendall-Hunt.<\/p>\n
Michael typically teaches Techniques & Technology of Propaganda, Exploring\u00a0 the Digital Future and various film courses (from Scriptwriting to Movie\u00a0 Making).<\/p>\n
Michael is currently editing a film called “Alternatives” and looks forward to its completion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":855,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-55","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/55\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}