Jay Boylan
Professor Emeritus of Film and Media Arts
Film and Media Arts, Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts
Email: boylan@chapman.edu
Biography
From Indians to archeology to economics, Jay Boylan turns his camera on the real world
with the aim to illuminate. A specialist in studio and field television production,
he takes video out into the world, where real people look for answers to the challenges
facing the frail elderly or work to preserve the history of early California in the
mission city of San Juan Capistrano. Additionally, as co-producer of the PBS-broadcast
show Dialogue with Jim Doti, he helped Chapman University’s former president, Dr. Jim Doti, explore
a number of local issues.
Boylan is committed to making video a voice that reverberates beyond the limited confines of commercial TV. Thus, he continues to seek out—and relish—trips to remote parts of the world such as Nepal and Poland, where he shot Testimony of Triumph, a documentary about a Holocaust survivor who hid from the Nazis for three years.
Boylan received his MA in Media Communications from Governors State University in Illinois.
Boylan is committed to making video a voice that reverberates beyond the limited confines of commercial TV. Thus, he continues to seek out—and relish—trips to remote parts of the world such as Nepal and Poland, where he shot Testimony of Triumph, a documentary about a Holocaust survivor who hid from the Nazis for three years.
Boylan received his MA in Media Communications from Governors State University in Illinois.