During the summers, Hilan is on the Video Arts faculty at Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, where he teaches video production to students in grades 5--12. Using professional equipment, students learn to write, direct, and edit their own short films, based on aspects of classic films that are shown and discussed in class. He has also been a teaching artist at City Center and the North Shore Young Authors Conference.
Click here to read a New York Newsday article that featured Hilan's class at Usdan.
Hilan frequently lectures about film and cultural topics. He has given lectures at Hofstra University and the Wagner Society of NY about film and Wagnerian opera, incorporating video clips from operas and films. Upcoming lecture venues include the Boston Wagner Society and NYU's Deutsches Haus, where he will discuss the artistic refugees who fled the Nazis and settled in Los Angeles; this community was the subject of the PBS film Shadows in Paradise, which Hilan co-edited and researched. To inquire about Hilan lecturing at your venue, please contact Hilan at info@hilanwarshaw.com.