Josh Weissbach is starting his 11th year at Franklin Academy. While he is currently an Associate Dean of Students and Video Production Instructor, he has previously served as School Photographer, Humanities Instructor, and Team Leader. In addition, Josh has been Trip Leader on international trips to Cuba and Croatia, Slovenia, and Turkey, and he has traveled on all ten of Franklin Academy’s week-long fall college trips.

Josh is also an experimental filmmaker. His films have been shown worldwide in such venues as Ann Arbor Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, First Look at Museum of the Moving Image, European Media Art Festival, 25 FPS Festival, Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema, and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival. He has won jury prizes at Montreal Underground, Videoex, ICDOCS, and Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival. He is the recipient of a 2021 Artistic Excellence Award from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, a 2020 Moving Image Fund Early Development Grant from the LEF Foundation, a 2018 LightPress Grant from the Interbay Cinema Society, a 2015 LEF Fellowship from the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, a 2013 Mary L. Nohl Fellowship for Emerging Artists from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, and a 2008 Cary Grant Film Award from the Princess Grace Foundation-USA.