Faculty
The Cinematic Arts program at Flagler College focuses on one main goal: helping students discover their voices as storytellers. Cinematic Arts students can learn to create in a variety of mediums, including video, film, visual art, and theatrical performance.
At Flagler, we believe the most powerful learning comes from blending theory and practice. Students take a variety of courses from faculty in every department housed in the School of Creative Arts and Letters to provide a foundation in five specific areas.
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Design & Animation
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Film & Television Production
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Writing & Storytelling for the Screen
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Performance
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History & Theory of Film-based/Performance Arts
Meet the faculty members dedicated solely to Cinematic Arts:
Tracy Halcomb
Professor & Program Coordinator
Tracy Halcomb
Professor & Program Coordinator
Tracy Halcomb
Professor & Program Coordinator
Steph Borklund
Visiting Filmmaker, 2026-2029
Tracy Halcomb, Ph.D. has over 25 years of experience teaching at the college-level in communication law, audio, and video production. She is currently Professor of Communication at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. Halcomb completed her M.A. in Mass Media and her PH.D. in Mass Media Law and Policy at Bowling Green State University. She has executive-produced numerous student productions subsequently broadcast on network and PBS affiliate television stations in the Jacksonville, Florida market. Halcomb served as producer and sound recordist for the award-winning documentary Cracking Aces: A Woman’s Place at the Table (2018), about female poker players who pull the veil back on the world of professional poker and the hurdles of exploitation and harassment which they must overcome. She also produced Fielding Dreams: A Celebration of Baseball Scouts (2024).
Steph Borklund is a filmmaker and educator with more than 20 years of professional experience in film production, post-production, and higher education. She earned her Master of Fine Arts in Film and Television from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) and currently serves as Visiting Filmmaker in the Cinematic Arts program at Flagler College. Her creative work spans documentary, narrative, and corporate and industrial media.
Prior to joining academia, Borklund served as Director of Post-Production at Left Coast Productions in California and freelanced with PineRidge Film and Television. She has held faculty appointments at the Art Institute of Jacksonville and an Associate Professor at both Stephens College and Middle Tennessee State University.
Committed to experiential learning, Borklund mentors emerging filmmakers through collaborative, production-based learning experiences that foster the creative, technical, and professional skills needed for careers in the film and media industries, while continuing to develop her own narrative and documentary projects.
Jim Gilmore
Visiting Filmmaker, 2022-2026
Jim Gilmore is a documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on American culture, social justice and history. He is the director of over 20 films on a variety of topics, from Zimbabwe: A Racial Revolution (1988) about the transition from white-ruled Rhodesia to black-ruled Zimbabwe, to Fielding Dreams: A Celebration of Baseball Scouts (2024), which celebrates the men and women who work behind the scenes to develop America’s pastime. He is currently finishing work on Florida’s Forgotten Fort, a new documentary short about Fort Mose—the first free black settlement in North America. Gilmore holds a MA in Broadcasting and Film from the University of Iowa and founded Acadia Pictures in 1995. Gilmore splits his time between Maine, Michigan and Florida. In addition to his work in documentary media, he serves as director of cultural programming for Sea Star Explorations. While at Flagler College, Jim worked with students to produce our first Cinematic Arts program film, A Book of Freedom: The Confessions of Francisco Menendez, which premiered in 2026 and continues to win awards.