Jacqueline Frost, Professor Emeritus, has been with CSUF since 2002 primarily teaching Cinematography, Documentary Production, Motion Picture Production 2, Directing and Experimental production.

She is currently producer and cinematographer on a feature length documentary on the life and work of Cuban born artist Ana Mendieta, Rebel By Nature(2015).  Frost has been cinematographer on narrative and documentary films that have screened in film festivals worldwide.

Her recent publication was "Cinematography for Directors, 2nd edition (2020), Michael Weise Productions."  Which is a sequel of her first book, “Cinematography for Directors: A Guide to Creative Collaboration” (2009), features excerpts from ASC cinematographers such as Roger Deakins (A Beautiful Mind), Matthew Libatique (Black Swan), Rodrigo Prieto (Brokeback Mountain), John Seale (The English Patient) amongst others.

Her upcoming book “Eye Behind the Lens, A Conversation with Contemporary Cinematographers, Focal Press, Routledge UK, (2021) ”  is published and which contains full interviews with fifteen esteemed members of the American Society of Cinematographers including Salvatore Totino (The Davinchi Code), Dante Spinotti (Public Enemies), John Bailey (Ordinary People), Ellen Kuras (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Seamus McGarvey (The Hours) and others.