Rate My Professor Joshua Sikora

In 2013, Sikora founded the Cinema & New Media Arts program at Houston Christian University, which has grown to encompass five degree programs at undergraduate and graduate levels, including the MFA in Screenwriting. His research specializations include low-budget filmmaking, independent cinema, online media development, and new media production workflows, with scholarly focus on directors Terrence Malick, George Lucas, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Hayao Miyazaki. He edited A Critical Companion to Terrence Malick (2020), contributed to A Critical Companion to Stanley Kubrick (2020) and A Critical Companion to Steven Spielberg (2019), and co-authored Digital Media in Today’s Classrooms (2016). Sikora is an award-winning filmmaker whose select credits include executive producing Manifest Destiny (2016) and “The Seventh Spectrum” (2013–2014), creating “The Tesla Archive” TV pilot, directing and writing the Cataclysmo TV series, Best Laid Plans (2010–2011), The Black Dawn series (2009), Project X (2007), and producing The Way That I Take (2020). Awards include the Gold Remi at the 49th Annual Houston International Film Festival and Piper Professor recognition in 2021. Through mentorship, he cultivates student skills in creativity, communication, collaboration, and the pursuit of goodness, truth, and beauty.