Joni Varner
Professor Emerita of Cinema and Television
Education
MA, State University of New York, Buffalo
BA, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Joni Varner has taught single- and multi-camera production and media studies for more than 30 years at LACC, CSUN and PCC, and has served as chair of LACC’s Cinema and Television Department. She has taught more than one hundred sections of CINEMA 001: Introduction to Motion Picture Production. Before teaching, she spent a decade in broadcast television producing, directing and writing commercials, industrial videos, telethons and live TV.
Joni studied and exhibited experimental video art at SUNY Buffalo and won first place (Southeast Region) in the experimental category of the AFI National Student Video Festival. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Miami-Dade Public Library and has been exhibited at the Mint Museum and the North Carolina Museum of Art.