Meet Mr. Frank

Frank Guttler is a Los Angeles media arts educator, curriculum designer and founder of Lights, Camera, Learn! LLC. Known to his students as “Mr. Frank,” he brings more than 25 years of experience helping young people and educators communicate through words, images and sound.

As Associate Director of the American Film Institute’s Screen Education Center, Frank developed Lights, Camera, Education!, a K–12 filmmaking and visual-literacy curriculum, and led professional learning for educators nationally and internationally. His career also includes directing programs for The Mobile Film Classroom and curriculum and professional development for DIGICOM Learning, alongside teaching at California State University, Northridge and Wilkes University.

Today, Frank leads classroom residencies through Lights, Camera, Learn!, works with LAUSD schools and teaches through CalArts’ Community Arts Partnership and the UC Irvine Youth Writing Project. His projects connect research, writing, visual storytelling and purposeful production with student voice, collaboration and critical thinking. He partners with teachers to shape projects around their curriculum, guiding students from an initial question through planning, filming, editing, feedback and a shared screening.

Frank holds a California Career Technical Education teaching credential in Arts, Media and Entertainment, serves as Rubric Chair for the California Student Media Festival and is an advisory board member of The MY HERO Project. 

His approach rests on a simple belief: The movie is the evidence. The making is the learning.