Faculty
VFS faculty members are working industry professionals at the forefront of the entertainment business. Our instructors know intimately what is needed from the next generation of producers, businesspeople, and innovators. In addition to this experience and hard-earned wisdom in film, TV, digital media, and music, our instructors are dedicated teachers committed to conveying their passion and knowledge to students.
Sebastien de Castell
Acting Head of Entertainment Business Management
Sebastien brings a diverse career - educator, musician, product strategist, ombudsman, interaction designer, project manager, fight choreographer, and actor - to students in the forward-thinking Entertainment Business Management program.
He has led the experience design for interactive campaigns for television series such as ReBoot and Heartland, designed the fight choreography and directed the action for Richard III in London, consulted on acting with weapons for the video game Lord of the Rings: The Third Age, and played the lead in the independent film The Harvest Project. As a certified PMI Project Management Professional, his clients have ranged from Finning Canada to the BC Government, and he has also served as Head of VFS Digital Design.