Dan Dinello is an independent filmmaker, teacher, and author. His most recent book is "Technophobia! Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology."   In the 1990s, he made several award-winning films with his nephew Paul Dinello and his friends Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris.   These films included "Beyond the Door," "Shock Asylum," and "Wheels of Fury." Currently, he teaches film and video production and critical studies at Columbia College Chicago where he has taught since 1979. Born in Chicago in 1946, Dinello went St. Lucy grammar school and later Fenwick high school, where he was both a National Merit scholar and an All-American football player. His mother Mary worked at Fenwick, otherwise they could not have afforded the tuition. He received the Michigan Yost Award in 1964, given to Chicagoland's best scholar-athlete. In 1964, he went to the University of Illinois on a football scholarship. After an injury to his leg after falling down the stadium stairs, he left the football team. He has two children Bryan Dinello, who now works on The Colbert Report, and Dana Dinello, who sells real estate in Chicago. He's married to Maureen Musker.

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