Aaron Owen

Aaron Owen is an Assistant Professor in the School of Cinematic Arts at DePaul University and an MBA candidate at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He specializes in cinematography, digital cinema mastering, and post-production workflow design. He co-authored The Video Compression Handbook published by Peach Pit Press. His work has appeared in ad campaigns for Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, esurance, and HOKA, and in triple-A video game franchises NBA 2K and WWE 2K. Aaron was online editor for the Oscar-nominated short documentary La Corona and created the DCPs for Boys State, which set the Sundance record for highest-priced documentary sale. He brings deep expertise in digital cinema and media preservation to the Chicago Film Archives board.