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Campus Review
December 12, 2013
“Our biggest success was `Breaking Bad.’
In its last season, we counted 40 percent
of the below line crew were our former or
current students.”
Although New Mexico was the first state
to have a loan package as part of its incen-
tive package to attract films from
Hollywood, creating what Bond terms
“instant interest” in films coming to New
Mexico, he also says that Georgia’s pres-
ent involvement in the film industry
already surpasses New Mexico’s.
“I’m regularly taken aback by how many
parallels there are between New Mexico
and Georgia,” he says. “But I sincerely
believe Georgia is ahead of New Mexico in
several aspects of its growth in the film and
media industry. Georgia is further ahead in
the development of its industry at this point.
“The film industry follows the dollar.
There’s no two ways about it, Georgia is
way ahead in terms of infrastructure for
the film industry. Other states have had
plans, but they haven’t done anything.
Georgia is well-positioned to be a leader
in the development of infotainment world,
including feature films, TV, cable, all
internet, gaming, the use of digital media
for training, medically-related and indus-
trial-related training projects.”
Further, Bond says that Clayton State is
positioned to be a leader, not just in the
state, but in the nation.
“The picture at Clayton State is that
enlightened, forward thinking is likely to
make Clayton State a leader, if not the
leader in the country, in the type of train-
ing we are doing,” he predicts, noting the
efforts of both Executive Director of
Continuing Education Janet Winkler, and
Clayton State President Dr. Thomas
Hynes.
Bond relates the series of events that now
brings him to Georgia. Hynes originally
met with Bobby Vazquez, former presi-
dent of Local 479 of IATSE, who shared
with him a description of the New Mexico
courses and requested that Clayton State
provide training for the union members
and to create a training program for peo-
ple interested in a career as a technical
crew member.
Hynes then asked Winkler to respond to
Vazquez’ request and made the introduction
to the president of Central New Mexico
Community College, who introduced
Winkler to Bond. Over the course of the
past year, Bond has provided guidance for
launching the program. Winkler is also
introducing him to large network of profes-
sionals in Georgia who have expressed
interest in collaborating with Clayton State
to ensure the success of the program.
Bond began his media career at the tender
age of 15 at a little radio station in Taos,
N.M., and worked in production and man-
agement at public radio and television sta-
tions in New Mexico, central California
and Idaho. Those stations won several
national and regional awards for program-
ming, fund-raising and audience develop-
ment.
He began his teaching career in 1987 at
Santa Fe Community College, where he
developed academic programs in elec-
tronic media production and digital
media. He holds B.A. in Communication
from New Mexico State University and
also had more than 50 hours of graduate
credits in communication and business
administration.
He has served on numerous local, state
and national media and technology advi-
sory groups and has made presentations at
several national conferences.
Although not directly related to his film
training credentials, it is also worth noting
that Bond and his wife Joyce have a lot of
hands-on experience in training – they
have six-year-old triplets.
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Film, cont’d. from p. 5