Why Choose Storytellers Film Academy?

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Dr. Bunkowske is Professor of Law, Business, Ethics and Leadership. He holds B.A., M.B.A., J.D., and Ph.D. degrees and is Harvard-trained in Organizational Leadership, Educational Leadership, and Ethics. He is the recipient of two Excellence in Teaching Awards from the National Society of Leadership & Success

Dr. Bunkowske is one of the world's most educated, experienced, and successful Christian corporate and entertainment attorneys. He is an award-winning attorney with over 30 years of experience in the Christian music, television, and film industries. Bunkowske Law represents over 100 Christian entertainment clients including Grammy and Dove award-winning recording artists and many of the world's most successful Christian filmmakers. Bunkowske Law has worked with organizations, films, and music projects with over 20 billion views across social media.

Dr. Bunkowske is the recipient of Grammy, Gold Record and Dove Awards for his legal work in the music and film industries. He has worked with Academy Award-nominated actors, Grammy and Dove award-winning recording artists and legendary producers. His areas of practice include film, television and music chief of legal and business affairs; film production, finance and global distribution; contracts, dispute resolution and University teaching. He also works as a film producer and executive producer on select films.

Dr. Bunkowske has been featured on Good Morning America, Inside Edition, Fox & Friends, Time.com, New York Times.com, USA Today.com, ABC News.com, Huffington Post.com, Cosmopolitan.com, Glamour.com and many more.

Dr. Bunkowske has worked extensively in the film, music and television industries doing finance, distribution, consulting, producing, executive producing, directing and contracts for hundreds of projects worldwide with Warner Bros., Universal Studios, Disney, Sony, Amazon, Netflix, Paramount Pictures, Angel Studios, ABC, NBC, FOX, Capitol Records, EMI, Word Records and many more. He has done extensive venture capital deal structuring for film companies, record companies and a $180 million foundation. Before becoming an entertainment attorney, Dr. Bunkowske worked as a broadcast television director and producer for seven years with weekly programs on ABC and FOX in Indiana.

Dr. Bunkowske is also a Nashville guitarist, songwriter, producer, and former record company owner. His record company in the 1990s was distributed worldwide by Warner Brothers (WEA) where he worked with engineer/producer Eddie Kramer (the Beatles, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Santana) recording Jimi Hendrix's band members (Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox), Stevie Ray Vaughan's Band (Double Trouble), Buddy Guy and many more.

Dr. Bunkowske has extensive experience in the field of management and employment law. He has taught at the University level for 17 years and has given hundreds of seminars and presentations for managers and HR professionals from many Fortune 500 companies including a full year training Ford Motor Company. He has taught over 30,000 BA and MBA students, business managers and leaders in most of the major U.S. cities, Puerto Rico and Brazil.

Extensive experience as a CEO has utilized Dr. Bunkowske's strong leadership skills. His background in business along with his substantive legal and business knowledge makes him an expert in law, business, ethics and leadership.

George Escobar is SFA Professor of Filmmaking Arts. He has extensive executive-level and film production experience and holds a Producing Fellowship from the American Film Institute Conservatory, which is among the top three film schools in the nation. AFI has produced 30 Academy Award winning alumni and 149 Academy Award nominees.

Professor Escobar is an award-winning writer, director, and producer with over 30 years of experience in business, technology, and film. Since 2007, he has produced seven feature films and a dozen documentaries for the faith and family market, including the Oscar-nominated movie “Alone Yet Not Alone” for Best Original Song. Professor Escobar also produced and directed “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment” (based on the New York Times bestseller “The Harbinger” by Messianic Jewish Rabbi Jonathan Cahn). It was Amazon’s No. 1 faith DVD for over 75 weeks. Professor Escobar’s films (“Come What May,” “Every Boy Needs a Hero,” “The Screenwriters”) have been distributed by Sony/Provident Films, Amazon Prime Video, PureFlix, Capitol Christian Distribution, and Christian Cinema.com. His film, “The World We Make” was recently on Netflix and is distributed through Universal, while “Farmer and the Belle” is on Amazon Prime.

A multiple award-winning screenwriter (Kairos Pro Award, Content19, ScreenCraft, Coverfly’s Red List), Professor Escobar sees tremendous opportunities to develop and produce new content for theatrical, social media platforms, and streaming networks that positively impact families and marriages with a Christ-centered response.

Since co-founding Advent Film Group in 2007, Professor Escobar has taught over 3,500 students in filmmaking and screenwriting from a Christian worldview. Have taught and lectured at Long Beach State University, Bob Jones University, the Christian Worldview Film Festival and Guild, Content Media Conferences, and various homeschooling conferences.

He has personally mentored dozens of students during Advent’s feature productions, with several former ‘Advent alumni’ now among the top professionals working in major feature films, documentaries, and network television.

He holds seven U.S. patents for interactive design and technologies, is a regular speaker/lecturer at film festivals, universities, and media conferences, and author of the book, “Filmmaking for Christians” and is writing a second book "Screenwriting for Christians" to be published late 2025.

Now in development, Professor Escobar is writing the PRAIRIE WINDS series for 3 Days Studios, and producing the feature film, MISSILEMAN, securing the attachment of Academy-nominee Terry Rossio as executive producer (Rossio is the co-writer/producer of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, co-writer of “Aladdin,” “Shrek,” “Deja Vu,” “National Treasure” among a dozen other box office hits).

Professor Escobar served as Executive Producer for Focus on the Family, VP of Product Development at Discovery, VP for Advance Products at TeleTV, Executive Director at AOL/TimeWarner, and Director of the Digital Production Studio for Bell Atlantic (now Verizon).