Tory Estern

Tory Jadow, a 20-year veteran of the New York City film industry, worked as a lighting designer on shows such as Saturday Night Live and Sesame Street, as well as countless feature films, commercials, music videos, and documentaries throughout the '80s and '90s. Tory's short narrative film, The Fall, was a prize winner at the '88 Suffolk County Film Festival. After moving to the northwest corner of Connecticut to raise a family, Tory founded the Indian Mountain School film program, of which she was the department chair from 2006 to 2014. During that time, Tory supervised the making of over 45 student short films and introduced hundreds of students to the art and craft of filmmaking. In addition to teaching film at IMS, Tory regularly produced and shot videos for the school website for the purpose of marketing, alumni development, and fund-raising. Of particular note, she created two successful video marketing campaigns, Student Voices and Teacher Voices, for Indian Mountain's admissions department. A freelancer once again, Tory works as a director, cinematographer, and editor. Recent projects include a music video for the Harlem Line Band, a documentary for the Salisbury Historical Association, and a promotional video for Fusion Sports Performance in New York City. In 2016 Tory was the editor of a documentary for Cotton-Hussey Films on the artist Roy Lichtenstein. She is co-founder of RC Productions and in 2018 will be directing and co-producing RCP's inaugural project, Uprooting Addiction, on the root causes of drug-addiction and the transformational power of recovery. Tory received her BA from Wesleyan University, and her MFA from Bennington College. She lives in West Cornwall, CT with her two teenage children and her Black Labrador, Pearl.