Jennifer Penton

Jennifer has been an adjunct at CSULB since 2022, teaching Adobe Premiere and Avid Media Composer.  She is a full-time Assistant Professor at West Los Angeles College, where she teaches Film Production, including Virtual Production, Unreal Engine, Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, and Avid Media Composer. At West Los Angeles College, she assists students to become Hollywood CPR candidates so that they may be accepted into IATSE Locals. Jennifer is also an adjunct at Los Angeles City College, teaching the History of Narrative Film and Documentary and has taught at New York Film Academy, helping graduate students to complete their MFA thesis films. She occasionally teaches special subjects at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art. 

As an educator, Jennifer has formed liaisons with colleges and universities and led projects for The Getty Museum and SIGGRAPH. One of her greatest joys is to inspire students to explore their creativity and gain the technological tools to express themselves through live action and animated motion pictures, and through virtual reality platforms.  

Jennifer has worked at Warner Brothers, Klaspy Csupo, and Yahoo!, and on special projects for Disney. She has also worked with many independent filmmakers as an editor and web developer. Jennifer enjoys incorporating motion graphics and visual effects into her editing projects, and ensuring that they have a significant emotional impact on the audience. As a storyteller and artist, she has cowritten and illustrated children's books that are in the process of being published.  

Jennifer is continually interested in emerging technologies, and as such, is working with virtual production innovators to develop training and certificate programs within this quickly evolving field, with respect to metahuman, AI, game engines and camera integration. She is a member of SIGGRAPH, SCBWI and other creative organizations.