One-on-one interaction with students gives them the confidence to 'go out and do it'

Enter Jonathan Berman, 41, energetic assistant professor of communication who knows about movies. “All students have a story,” he said. An accomplished filmmaker (his credits include documentaries “The Shvitz,” “My Friend Paul” and “Commune”), he arrived in North County five years ago from New York and relishes the human stories on display around him.

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