Campbell Dalglish

Founding director of D'Arc Productions, and an award winning playwright, screenwriter and director, Campbell Dalglish is a tenured professor in the film program at City College of New York. He is also a Film Commissioner for Suffolk County on Long Island. and President of The Plaza Media Arts Center in Patchogue, New York. As a playwright Dalglish won several awards ("The List," "Blue Mass"). As a filmmaker he has produced segments for The New Morning Show (Faith and Value Media/Hallmark Channel 2008) five of them dealing with Native American themes on Indian Reservations. His short narrative film "Dance of the Quantum Cats" won over a dozen international awards and was selected by CINE to represent USA at the 12th International Film Festival of Peace, Hiroshima, Japan. It was broadcast on PBS/CPTV as part of a series on emerging directors. Dalglish developed a technique of making films from the perspectives of people living in marginal communities by visiting, interviewing and conducting interactive improvisations with his subjects. The results have been "A Hard Way Out" (1996 Hartford gangs), "The Community Room" (1992 Jericho Homeless Shelter), and "The Shooting Gallery" (1988 Bridgeport Prison). Together with his partner Catherine Oberg, he co-produced with Invisible Dog Inc., an environmental TV pilot "Eco Action" (2000). In 2016 he wrote, directed and produced the short "Road Kill." He is currently in post-production on a feature documentary, "Spirit Roads: Surviving Genocide" about being American Indian in Oklahoma, and writing a TV episode "The Commune." Dalglish is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.