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JUNE 3 - JUNE 9, 2011

ALLISON ANDERS LAWRENCE BENDER Alumnus of the Year UCLA SCHOOL OF THEATER, AND TELEVISION Filmmaker of the Year AND PRODUCERS GUILD OF AMERICA VISION AWARD

JUNE FORAY STACEY SNIDER Crystal ANVIL Award Champion Spirit AwarD Distinguished Achievement FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION in TO ANIMATION HONOREES FESTIVAL 2011 EVENTS AND PROGRAM CONTENTS

1 Honorees and Special Guests 3 Welcome Program Cover Design by Ian Roth, ’11 Friday June 3, 7:30 p.. 5 Opening Night | James Bridges Theater, UCLA Saturday, June 4, 2:00 to 5:00 p.M. 6 Design Showcase West | Freud Playhouse, UCLA Saturday, June 4, 12:00 p.m. 7 Moving Image Archive Studies (MIAS) Event | James Bridges Theater, UCLA Saturday, June 4, 5:00 and 8:30 p.m. 8 Festival of Animation (The Prom) | James Bridges Theater, UCLA Monday, June 6, 7:30 p.m. 10 Screenwriters Showcase | Freud Playhouse, UCLA Tuesday, June 7, 7:30 p.m. 15 Producers Marketplace | Theater, Westwood Thursday, June 9, 7:30 p.m. 19 Directors Spotlight | Director’s Guild of America Theater, 27 MFA 30 Playwrights, Stage Directors, Theatrical Designers 32 Acknowledgements 33 Contributors with SPECIAL Guests

Michael Apted Richard Crudo Armie Hammer HAWK KOCH Shawn Levy Tom Nunan director Cinematographer ACTOR PRODUCER Director Producer SCREENWRITER from the Dean of the School of Theater, Film and Television teri schwartz

Welcome to the 2011 UCLA Festival of New Creative Work. As a UCLA alumna and now TFT dean, it is a great honor for me to join all of you in celebrating the outstanding achievements of our students and recognizing distinguished industry leaders over the course of this very special week. I thank you all for supporting a diverse group of new storytelling voices whose exciting works have captured our imagination with their originality, depth, artistry and skill. Festivals showcase remarkable talent while uniting all of you who love and support film, great storytelling and the discovery of exceptional new talent. For our students, exhibiting their work at festivals is a transformational learning metaphor that serves them well throughout their careers, while inspiring them to take their work to even greater levels of excellence. Without question, you will see this kind of powerful work on display through- out this special week Whether it’s festival week or our many great programs and initiatives on display every day, it’s an exciting time to be at TFT. Our new vision is simple, yet powerful: for TFT to serve as a premier interdisciplinary global professional school that develops industry leaders and scholars whose diverse voices enlighten, engage and inspire change for a better world. Without question, our students, faculty and alumni represent the very best of our storied past and our exceptionally bright future. Enjoy your festival week. And, once again, please join me in congratulating all of our TFT students for another wonderful year of outstanding work. W ELCO M E

www.tft.ucla.edu/festival 33 A Message from MYRL SCHREIBMAN Producer, Festival of New Creative Work 2011

Independent Voices! It’s what distinguishes the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television as a unique place of budding artists whether they are writers, producers, animators, designers or directors. One only needs to look at the schools’ web site to see the roster of people working professionally as actors, writers, producers, animators, directors, cinematographers, editors or as scholars within the medium to see it’s lasting and indelible effect on the industry and the profes- sion. Independent Voices! The stories that our students tell are from their soul, their passion and their individual lives. They show a unique way of looking at the world, of seeing the miniscule in the largesse and the largesse in the miniscule or the complexities of the human spirit and the passion of emotions that transport us through their stories. They make you laugh and cry and go away think- ing about an issue that requires further thought if not action. Independent Voices! That’s what the 2011 UCLA Festival of New Creative Work is all about. Independent Voices! It is the Festival that honors luminaries who our students look to for inspiration and ideals and whose work is deeply admired and respected for its own independent voice and spirit. All of our students are talented emerging artists as they are the writers, producers, designers, and directors of tomorrow who are working tirelessly today on their art and craft to be true storytellers in an original visionary way. “To be an artist” says , “means to search, to find and look at life’s realities. To be an art- ist means to never look away.” Well our students in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television never do look away. They look forward. Creating What’s Next! W ELCO M E

4 www.tft.ucla.edu/festival FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 7:30 P.M. James Bridges Theater, UCLA

Co-sponsored by The Student Director’s Association Host: Brianna Quick, member, SDA Honoree: , ’86 Alumnus of the Year From the release of her acclaimed first feature, (1989), co-directed with Kurt Voss, Allison Anders has established a body of work that is innovative in style and marked by strong ensem- ble acting. Her as writer-director include (1992), (1993), (1996), Sugar Town (1999) and (2002), which won a Peabody Award. While a student at TFT in 1983, Anders won the Alan Jacobson Award for best first film for “Nobody Home” and a chance to study under her mentor on the set of Paris, . She graduated summa cum laude with the first prize in the Writing Award and the first-ever Nicholl Fellowship. In 1992 she was awarded the Film Critics Circle Award for Best New Director for Gas, Food, Lodging and in 1995 received a MacArthur “genius grant.” She recently directed episodes of the acclaimed television series Southland, Cold Case, and Men in Trees, and with Voss completes the Border Radio trilogy with the feature film Strutter.

Presentation of student-voted awards Film Screenings

Spider Fang! (2:00) Directed by Justin Perkinson Rafi Baby (9:00) Directed by Christine Yuan Stay Still (17:00) Directed by David Kelly The Deep End (12:00) Directed by Meredith Koch Foot Soldier (20:00) Directed by Jon Crawford Heart (8:00) Directed by Erick Oh Metered (11:00) Directed by Jeff Bourg I Love You Like Crazy (23:00) Directed by Tess Sweet

Fran’s Daughter (13:00) Directed by Eric Martin OPENING OPENING NIGH T NIGHT www.tft.ucla.edu/festival2011 5 SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 2:00 to 5:00 P.M. Freud Playhouse, UCLA

The ninth annual Design Showcase West held at UCLA, the only national entertainment design showcase on the West Coast, features the work of students graduating from the nation’s top university design programs, including UCLA; Institute of the Arts; UC San Diego; Univer- sity of Missouri, Kansas City; UC Davis; the University of Texas, Austin; UC Irvine; and the North Carolina School of the Arts. Exhibits range from costume design to set, sound and lighting design. Design Showcase West is hosted by the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television; the Costume Designers Guild, Local 892; and the United Scenic Artists, Local 829, and the Art Directors Guild, Local 800. The Showcase is attended by entertainment producers, directors and A-list designers who are looking for new talent.

Admission is free. Parking is available in Lot 3 on a pay-by-space basis. For more information, please visit www.designshowcasewest.com or call (310) 825-2261

Swarovski Shooting Star Award for Excellence in Costume Design The collaboration between the David C. Copley Center for The Study of Costume Design and Swarovski, the world’s greatest crystal company, continues this year with the presentation of the second Swarovski Shooting Star Award for Excellence in Costume Design to an MFA costume design student at TFT. The second phase of the Copley/Swarovski partnership will be launched this year with a series of Swarovski Distinguished Designer Panels that will offer students of design a unique opportunity to meet and interact with some of the entertainment industry’s most respected practitioners of the craft.

DESIGN Design Showcase West is co-hosted by… SHOWCASE ART DIRECTORS GUILD directors DESIGN SHO W CASE ES T WEST 6 www.tft.uwww.tft.ucla.edu/festivalcla.edu/festival OUT OF THE ARCHIVE 7 2011 www.tft.ucla.edu/festival2011 Theater, UCLA James Bridges

M. J 12:00 P. RDAY, UNE 4, SATU

The MIAS M.A. program at UCLA is offered jointly by the Cinema and Media Studies faculty in the at UCLA is offered jointly by the Cinema and Media The MIAS M.A. program ROGER L. BROWN, New York Street Scenes (1960, 8:30) (1964, 7:00) SADIE MENCHEN, Modern House (NY World’s Fair) SHIRAZ BHATHENA, New York World’s Fair (1964, 12:30) (1964, 12:15) ALICE ROYER, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade NINA RAO, Kennedy Library Exhibit (1965, 7:45) ALEJANDRA ESPASANDE BOUZA, Cuban Arrives in Miami (1966, 9:30) TRISHA LENDO, Parade in Chinatown, S.F. (1967, 7:00) M STUDIES PROGRA MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVE work by current students and recent graduatesOut of the Archive features creative and preservation students will present in Moving Image Archive Studies (MIAS). Current of the UCLA M.A. program their professional interests and and excerpts from their portfolios, representing independent creative work archivists will show program. Recent MIAS alumni now working as professional achievements in the MIAS newsreel work on the Hearst Metrotone News collection, one of the largest elements of their preservation Television Archive. is part of of the UCLA Film & collections in the world, which in the Graduate School Television and the Department of Information Studies School of Theater, Film & & Television Archive. This Studies, in cooperation with the UCLA Film of Education and Information established in the U.S. to educate professionals highly selective program was the first graduate degree students deal with the challenges of ever-changing and scholars in this rapidly-expanding field. MIAS and the evolving cultural contexts and expecta- technology, the complex legal and policy environment also have the opportunity to put their knowledge tions surrounding moving image archiving. Students institutions in the U.S. and worldwide. into practice at over 30 industry sites and cultural S ORIGINAL AND PRESERVATION Work from MIAS Students and Alumni (2010, 3:00) ALEJANDRA ESPASANDE BOUZA, Allegro Non Molto MICHELE GEARY, His Nibs (1921, 10:00) SHIRAZ BHATHENA, Devon (2007, 3:30) TONY BEST, Digital Restoration Demonstration Preservation Projects s Collection: MIAS Class of 2010 from UCLA’s Hearst Metrotone New M THERECENT WORK FRO

OUT OF THE ARCHIVE SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 5:00 and 8:30 P.M. James Bridges Theater, UCLA (Honors and awards presented at the 5:00 p.m. screening only.)

Presented by: Celia Mercer, Area Head, UCLA Animation Workshop Honoree JUNE FORAY Crystal ANVIL Award for OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO ANIMATION Called the First Lady of cartoon voices, honoree June Foray is best known as the voice of the Flying Squirrel on the classic Jay Ward television shows Rocky and His Friends (1959–1961) and The Bullwinkle Show (1961–1964). She also voiced Natasha Fatale and Dudley Do-Right’s girlfriend Nell on those programs, and again portrayed Rocky in the CG-and-live-action feature film The Adventures of Rocky And Bullwinkle (2000). Foray’s extensive credits have included work for Disney (Cinderella and Peter Pan) and for Warner Brothers on dozens of classic cartoons, playing everything from Tweety Bird’s grand- mother to Daffy Duck’s wife. Continuing her association with Warner’s giant Chuck Jones, Foray voiced Cindy Lou Who in the TV animated version of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and Jane Kangaroo in Horton Hears A Who. She eventually worked on all of Jones’ independent shorts, including “A Cricket in Times Square” and “The Pumpkin Who Couldn’t Smile.” From 1977 to 2005, Foray was on the Board of Governors of the Motion Picture Academy, where she chaired the student . Currently she is on the Advisory Board of The Chuck Jones Center for Creativity. Her numerous awards and honors include a Star on the Walk of Fame and an award created in her name by the International Animated Film Design by Adam Holmes Association (ASIFA).

Student Awards: Best in Show, Best Story, Best Animation, Best Art Direction, Most Innovative.

direc t ors festival of animation 8 www.tft.ucla.edu/festival2011 For almost 60 years, the UCLA Animation Workshop has promoted its “one person, one film” philosophy, allowing animators of all types to realize their concepts independently. The Workshop works in all mediums (be it pencils, clay, or Maya), and offers courses in all aspects of the production of an animated film. The Walter Lantz Digital Animation Studio serves as the analog-and-digital research and production facility for thesis students. Yarn, Paper, Scissors by Olson Recent graduates have been nominated for numerous Oscar and Annie awards, the latter conferred by the International Animated Film Society (ASIFA). In 2007, Gil Kenan ’02 was nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar for his directorial debut Monster House, and Movie, directed by Festival 2009 honoree, David Silverman, collected seven Annie nominations. Students have also been honored: Joaquin Baldwin was nominated for an Annie in 2009 for “Sebastian’s Voodoo,” and Emud Mokhberi was a member of the team that directed the Oscar-nominated romp “Oktapodi.” A landmark event in 2009 was the release of the Oscar-nominated 9, produced by directors Tim Umbrella Girl by Saeko Igarashi Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted), an expanded feature adaptation of the Student Oscar-nominated short thesis film created by Shane Acker ‘04 in the Animation Workshop.

Film Screenings include…

Umbrella Girl (5:20) by Saeko Igarashi Funeral (3:15) by Kat Bakonyi Impressions of Dulcinea (4:30) by Sharon Burian The Devil's Switch (4:30) by Vivian Lee Ninja Monkey vs Ninja Cat (4:00) Dispatch by Yinglei Yang by David Yee The Last Out (2:15) by Benett Kim Jeff the Robot (1:30) by Adam Holmes A Hare Unaware (2:00) by Zach Mekelburg Want (4:20) by Efeme Onaodowan The Night Sky (7:00) by Jeffrey Fletcher Yellow (1:00) by Zach Mekelburg La Mer (3:20) by Jessica Hokanson Claire and her Robot (3:24) by Alexis Block Dispatch (5:15) by Yinglei Yang "You Break It, You Buy It" (1:30) Spring (2:00) by Wenjia Huang by Gina Gress The Paradise (3:55) by Dan Zong (Jessica) Swing (4:30) by Stacy Eduarte The Merry Wives of Wilshire (2:00) The Box (2:29) by Kartika Mediani Be Quiet (3:00) by Heng Zhang by Ariel Goldberg The Lighthouse by Po-Chou Chi Chubby Mermaid (12:00) by Emezie Rainy Man (3:50) by Sisi Feng Chocolate Milk (9:00) Luna (Moon) (8:47) by Raul Cardenas-Rivera by Elizabeth Chincarini Of Robots And Rednecks (16:30) by Kevin Davis The Missing Child (2:30) by Arem Kim Blue Sky (1:30) by Po Chou Chi

Breaking Space (2:00) by Marika Boehler Don't Fear the Sitter (5:52) Yarn, Paper, Scissors (2:20) by David Johnston by Rebecca Olson The Jockstrap Raiders (18:30) A ni m a t ors by Mark Nelson Le Chat D'Amour (2:44) by Liza Rhea The Great AstrOh! (1:40) by Octavio Villegas

Feast for a Moment (3:30) by Jae Hyun Lee Elmer's Nest (3:45) by Jacqueline Marion The Secret Life of Shirts (1:00) by Eric Leppo The Merry Wives of Wilshire by Ariel Goldberg

www.tft.ucla.edu/festival 9 MONDAY, JUNE 6, 7:30 P.M. Freud Playhouse, UCLA

Host: Mike Werb, Screenwriter Honoree: Aaron Sorkin, Distinguished Achievement in Screenwriting Special Guest: Armie Hammer, Actor Honoree: Caroline Williams Goddard, Lew and Pamela Hunter/Jonathan and Janice Zakin Chair in Screenwriting

The UCLA Graduate Screenwriters Association welcomes you to the 16th Annual Screenwriters Showcase. This event celebrates the work of UCLA’s Graduate Screenwriting students past and present. Portions of eight scripts will be previewed in five-minute staged excerpts. These scripts were selected by a panel of over 200 industry judges in a competition that began in March. Film WINNERS

Wetwork Inc by Spencer Ballou Bad Dogs by Paul Bertino Simone’s Masterpiece by Diana Densmore The Family Harvest by Megan Green Trapped by Nicole Riegel TELEVISION WINNERs Stunt Cock (half-hour comedy) by Tony Baker Ashburton Prep (one-hour drama) by Jeff King Dear chuck Norris (half-hour comedy) by Scott Sullivan

direc t ors screenwriters SHOWCASE www.tft.ucla.edu/festival2011 Presented by Armie Hammer Special Presentation Honoree: AARON SORKIN CAROLINE Distinguished Achievement in Screenwriting Award WILLIAMS Aaron Sorkin won the Academy Award® for Best Adapted Screenplay of 2010 for , as well as a Golden Globe, British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), GODDARD Writers Guild Award and the USC Scripter Award. The film, directed by , was LEW AND PAMELA HUNTER/ named Best Drama at the Golden Globes, was nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Picture, and appeared on over 350 top ten’ lists. Sorkin began as a playwright, making his JONATHAN AND JANICE ZAKIN Broadway playwriting debut at the age of 28 with the military courtroom drama, A Few Good CHAIR IN SCREENWRITING Men. His of was nominated for four Academy Awards®, Caroline Williams Goddard grew in , including Best Picture. He followed this success with the screenplays for Malice, starring Alec Portland and Southern California, where she was Baldwin and , and , starring and a Young Conservatory Player at South Coast Rep Annette Bening. He produced and wrote the television series for ABC for two in Costa Mesa. As an undergraduate at USC her years, and spent four years writing and producing the critically acclaimed and multi-award- first play was selected for the Heideman Award, winning NBC series , Emmy’s Outstanding Drama Series in all four seasons. produced at the Humana Festival, lauded by the Sorkin wrote and produced the NBC television series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and New York Times and published by Samuel French. wrote the 2007 film Charlie Wilson’s War, directed by and starring , While an MFA screenwriting candidate at UCLA, and . He most recently adapted , directed by Caroline won the Screenwriters Showcase, the and starring , which is in post production at . Sorkin is currently Gershenson Fellowship and the George Burns developing a new series with HBO, More as This Story Develops, set behind the scenes at a and Gracie Allen Comedy Fellowship. After cable news show, and he has acquired the rights to The Politician, the best-selling book by graduating, Williams sold her first television , Andrew Young about the downfall of former Senator . He will adapt the book MissGuided, to Twentieth Century Fox and and produce, and will be making his directorial debut with the project. Ashton Kutcher’s Katalyst Films.It went on to receive critical acclaim and air on ABC with Judy Past Honorees: Laeta Kalogridis* (2010); * (2009); * Greer and Chris Parnell. Caroline was a staff (2008); Daniel Pyne* (2007); Scott Kosar* (2006); * And (2005); writer on NBC’s The Office and was nominated * (2004); Darren Star* (2003); And Babaloo Mandell (2002); Robert for a Writers Guild Award. She was also consult- Towne (2001); Ernest Lehman, Madelyn Pugh Davis, Bob Carroll, Jr. (2000); Hollywood ing producer on ABC’s and Blacklisted Screenwriters, (1999); James Cameran And (1998); received a Writers Guild Award as a member of Julius Epstein (1997) *Alumnus the writing staff. She has since developed other TV projects with Warner Bros. and JJ Abrams. In SCREEN W RI T ERS SHO CASE addition to her TV work, she has done feature work for , Lions Gate Films and others. screenwriters SHOWCASE www.tft.ucla.edu/festival 11 12 SCREEWRITERS SHOWCASE screent wri Freud Playhouse,UCLA MONDAY, JUNE6,7:30P.. SHOWCASE HOSTMIKEERB Horizon Television.TheseriespremieredinJune,2010. Unnatural History—thefirstliveaction-adventureshowforCartoonNetworkandWarner Firehouse Dog(NewRegency/Fox).Mostrecently,Mikecreatedandexecutiveproduced well-reviewed animatedhitCuriousGeorge(Universal/Imagine)andthefamilycomedy motion picturebeforebecomingGovernorofCalifornia.Otherfilmcreditsincludethe worked intimatelywithArnoldSchwarzeneggeronCollateralDamage,hislastmajor WB’s flashyflopTVseriesTarzanstarringTravisFimmel’sabs.WerbandCollearyalso six creditedscreenwritersonLaraCroft:TombRaiderstarringAngelinaJolie,andthe John TravoltaandNicolasCage.21stcenturyaccomplishments(!)includebeingoneof (with MichaelColleary)theaction-thrillerFace/Off,directedbyJohnWooandstarring Food oftheGods,Part2.Mikeco-wroteandco-produced and thegiant-rats-attack-a--campusepicGnaw:The produced credits,including“Darkman3:Die,Darkman,Die!, Carrey comedy“TheMask,”buthealsoembraceshisother screenwriting. Hehassinceworkedforeverymajorstudio. Hollywood ladderbyenteringtheUCLAMaster’sprogramin writing, hebeganaburlesqueclimbupthewell-greased Wave garagebandthatneverleftthegarage.Turningto another. HeputhiscostlyeducationtousebyjoiningaNew degrees fromStanford,wherehemajoredinonethingafter A LosAngelesnative,MikeWerbreceivedhisundergraduate Mike’s bigbreakwaswritingthescreenplayforJim

ers SPECIAL GUESTArmieHammer wife ElizabethChambers. co-starring JohnnyDepp,whowillplayTonto.HecurrentlyresidesinLosAngeleswithhis has beencastinthetitleroleTFTalumGoreVerbinski’supcomingfilmTheLoneRanger, Hammer’s othercreditsincludearecurringguestroleontheCW’sGossipGirl.Hammer Alcott” inTarsem’s Bros. Thefilmwillbereleasedinlate2011.ThisyearHammeralsostaras“Prince Lance Black.ImagineEntertainmentandMalpasoProductionsareco-producingforWarner “lover”, ClydeTolson.ClintEastwoodwilldirectfromascriptbyMilk Edgar Hooverbiopic,J..Hammerwillplaylawyer-turned-FBI-officialandHoover’s 10 FilmsoftheYear.HammerwillbeseenstarringoppositeLeonardoDiCaprioinJ. SHO ,oppositeJuliaRobertsandLilyCollinsforRelativityMedia. Review andwasnamedoneoftheAmericanFilmInstitutesTop the BroadcastFilmCriticsAssociation,NationalBoardof recognized byboththeLAandNYFilmCritics’associations, “Best Picture”forGoldenGlobes.TheSocialNetworkwasalso received aSAGnominationfor“BestEnsemble”aswell Actor” bytheTorontoFilmCriticsAssociation.Thefilm Performer” bytheChicagoCrix,andawarded“BestSupporting breakouts oftheyear.Armiewasnominated“MostPromising him criticalpraiseandpositionedasoneofHollywood’s twins intheaward-winningfilmTheSocialNetworkgarnered promising youngactors.HisperformanceastheWinlevoss Armie HammerisemergingasoneofHollywood’smost W CASE Oscar-winner Dustin Feature Screenplay Winner Feature Screenplay Winner Feature Screenplay Winner Feature Screenplay Winner

Spencer Ballou Paul Bertino Diana Densmore Megan Green [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (818) 645-5860 (510) 282-0989 (213) 393-1831

Spencer Ballou is a first-year MFA screenwriting Paul Bertino writes features and TV. He was Raised in South West Michigan, Diana Megan Green gave up a damn good job in student who hails from , Texas. Once born in northern California, where he was Densmore, received her B.A. from the New York advertising to attend the UCLA MFA he received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering, raised by humans. Paul earned a B.A. in University of Michigan, in Film & Video Studies program in 2008. Her mother will never forgive Spencer made the obvious transition to screen- Cinema from San Francisco State University. and Creative Writing. After a short stint in her. Megan writes character-driven comedies writing. After he relocated to Los Angeles, He is finishing his 2nd year at UCLA’s MFA she returned to Michigan and worked for film and TV. While attending UCLA, she has Spencer picked up both an M.S. in Engineering Screenwriting program and has just completed on television commercials, short films and doc- worked with such illustrious screenwriters as Management, and several lunch orders while his 6th feature. Paul also has a background in umentaries. She also taught performance poet- David Koepp, Audrey Wells and Dan Pyne. In working as a production assistant. If he’s not video game development and 3D computer ry and photography before moving to 2010, she received in Film Founda- writing, watching movies, watching sports, or animation. Awards: Astana Festival to teach English. She returned from Japan to tion: Eleanor Perry Writing Award. playing basketball, Spencer eagerly sits by the Semi-Finalist, Scriptapalooza Semi-Finalist for a pursue a Master’s of Fine Arts in Screenwriting phone, waiting for a call from an NBA team half-hour comedy pilot. at UCLA. She was the 2009 Streisand and Sony H THE FAMILY HARVEST (comic drama) offering him a roster spot as a reserve Power Screenwriting Fellowship recipient, a 2010 Slacker girl Darcy is shocked when her long lost Forward. H BAD DOGS (werewolf western) Sloan Screenwriting Fellowship finalist and a father shows up, looking for a kidney. She’s not When the sheriff of a frontier town discovers Four Sisters Scholarship in Screenwriting recipi- a donor-match, but one of her father’s illegiti- H WETWORK INC (dark comedy) that a gang of bloodthirsty werewolves is ent in both 2009 and 2011. mate children might be, so Darcy hits the road Two suburban housewives—one desperate for responsible for his brother’s death, he must to meet her long lost siblings in the hopes of money, the other desperate for excitement— find a way to bring them to justice before he H SIMONE’S MASTERPIECE (family comedy) saving her playboy father. haphazardly become contract killers. But as becomes their next meal. When Simone’s mother falls into a coma, the business picks up, family complications arise, twelve-year-old self-proclaimed scientist and and the struggle to maintain their double lives her two younger brothers, George and Tito, becomes increasingly difficult. embark on a quest across Nevada to Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats. Their aim: to retrieve “stardust” from NASA’s comet sample return space capsule. Their hope: if wishing on a shooting star makes your dreams come true, actually having the dust of a comet will be the miracle that saves their mother. SCREEN W RI T ERS SHO CASE

www.tft.ucla.edu/festival 13 Feature Screenplay Winner Television Pilot Winner Television Pilot Winner Television Pilot Winner

Nicole Riegel Tony Baker Jeffrey King Scott Sullivan [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (740) 288-5086 (310) 980-2873 (508) 265-1862 (310) 463-1979

Nicole Riegel writes both features and original Tony is a visual and visceral storyteller riding the Jeffrey King is a television writer and playwright When it was announced that Scott Sullivan had pilots that are valentines to the odd space that is line between genre and comedy. He’s got an whose work has been performed at the Fringe been voted “Most Talented” in his high school the Midwest. She grew up in Ohio where encyclopedic knowledge of film coupled with Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland and NYU’s senior class, his best friend looked at him and she wrote and directed her first two plays for a desire to write across platforms, exploring Tisch School of the Arts, as well as venues in in all seriousness asked, “What talent do you the stage, received a B.A. in Motion Picture comic books, graphic novels, television, and Boston and Los Angeles. He is the director of have?” One could postulate that everything History, Theory & Criticism from Wright State feature film Loose Elephant Theatre, a frisky performance Scott does in this business is just a subconscious University and was a Nicholl Fellowship finalist. collective whose projects have included dous- attempt to prove a point to Jim Sears. Scott Prior to writing, she was a soldier in the United H STUNT COCK (1/2 hr comedy, animated) ing people with paint and duct-taping actors writes television and features. He also writes States Army. An ex-cock fighting rooster named Stunt Cock, to telephone poles. He was runner-up in the and directs short films that sometimes win has been put out to stud on a factory farm in 2010 RX Laughter Primetime Television Writing awards at festivals and stuff. H TRAPPED (drama/action) Arizona. Stunt tries to raise his only son, Hatch, Competition with a spec of How I Met Your A drama of two West Virginia coal miners who while dealing with the sudden arrival of Stunt’s Mother, and has most recently been working H DEAR CHUCK NORRIS (1/2 hr comedy) are trapped underground after a methane explo- abusive ex fight trainer, an immigrant worker as writers’ assistant for ABC’s pilot Grace. A lovable loser gets his life together with the sion. As the drama of the above ground love named Domingo. aid of a Chuck Norris self-help book. affairs collide with the peril and secrets below H ASHBURTON PREP (1 hr drama) ground, the two men must stick together in Ashburton Prep is an ensemble drama that order to make it out alive. follows the lives of several teachers and stu- dents at the most elite boarding school in the country as they struggle to balance their fragile social lives with the relentless demands of the academy SCREEN W RI T ERS SHO CASE

14 www.tft.ucla.edu/festival TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 7:30 P.M. The Billy Wilder Theater at the , Westwood

Hosted by Tom Nunan Honoree: Lawrence Bender, Vision Award Special Guest: Hawk Koch, Co-President, Producers Guild of America

This highly anticipated annual event features three graduate students in the distinguished UCLA Producers Program, who will present their feature film projects to a panel of top-tier industry judges. These project presentations were vetted by industry professionals in March. During the Producers Marketplace, the finalists take the stage to present their projects in five-minute concept pitches, and they then field questions from the judges about their project and their financing strategy. The judges will select the most promising proposal for the UCLA Producers Marketplace Award. The audience will also select its favorite pitch for the Audience Award. These awards are accompanied by a generous cash donation funded by Producer/Alumnus Dan Angel.

producers MARKETPLACE FINALISTS Michael Acosta RYan Slattery Aisha Summers PROD U CERS M ARKE T PLACE producers MARKETPLACE www.tft.ucla.edu/festival2011 15 TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 7:30 P.M. The Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, Westwood

Presented by Hawk Koch HONOREE: LAWRENCE BENDER TFT–PGA Vision Award Lawrence Bender, producer and political activist, has a career that spans two decades of producing highly successful films. His films to date, including such hits as , and , have been honored with 29 Academy Award nominations, including three for Best Picture, and have won 6. His film , which raised unprecedented awareness about climate change, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His latest documentary, , featuring Prime Minister and Presidents Musharef, Gorbachev, De Klerk and Carter, among others, details the urgent risk posed by nuclear proliferation, , and the accidental use of nuclear weapons. Other films include, (1996), Anna and the King (1999), The Mexican (2001), Innocent Voices (2004), and ’s (1992), (1997) and Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (2004). Lawrence has also produced, Havana Nights: 2; Knockaround Guys; A Price Above Rubies; White Man’s Burden; Killing Zoe and Fresh. He just finished shooting a new film, Safe, which stars and will be released worldwide later this year. Bend- er is also a passionate social and political activist. In 2003, he co-founded the Detroit Project, targeting the gas-guzzling SUV. He also traveled to the Middle East with the Israeli Policy Forum. In addition, Bender is on the Advisory Board to the Dean at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and serves on the board of The Creative Coalition. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Pacific Council. He is a recipient of the Torch of Liberty Award from the ACLU and spends much of his time throwing fundrais- ers for political and social causes in Los Angeles, which he calls home.

The Vision Award is given to a producer whose career is distinguished by the highest standards and whose body of work exemplifies quality, persistence and integrity.The Vision Award is presented by the Producers Guild of America and The UCLA School of Theater Film and Television.

Past Honorees: Hawk Koch (2010); Dan Jinks And Bruce Cohen (2009); Steve Golin (2008); Albert Berger And Ron Yerxa (2007); Cathy Schulman (2006); Mike Medavoy* (2005); And Paula Wagner, CW Productions (2004); (2003) *Alumnus

direc t ors producers MARKETPLACE 16 www.tft.ucla.edu/festival2011 VISION AWARD PRESENTED BY HAWK KOCH PRODUCERS MARKETPLACE HOST TOM NUNAN Hawk Koch is the Co-President of the Tom Nunan has a diverse background as an executive, having operated both a na- Producers Guild of America, a mem- tional TV network and one of the largest vertically integrated television studios. He is ber of the Board of Governors at the also an Academy Award® and Emmy® winning film and . He has Academy of Motion Picture Arts & been a Visiting Professor in the UCLA Producers Program for 15 years. Sciences and is on the Board of Directors Nunan is best known for his work as a founder and partner at Bull’s Eye Entertain- of the Motion Picture and Television ment (B.E.E.), where he has generated a television and film slate of over 50 projects. Fund. Koch has been producing films Nunan and his partners achieved worldwide success with their Academy Award® for over thirty years. Among his motion winning Best Picture winner Crash, and with The Illusionist, Thumbsucker and Em- picture credits are Heaven Can Wait (for ployee of the Month. High-profile television projects have included the adapta- which he won a Golden Globe), Primal tion of Crash, the Lifetime series Angela’s Eyes and the CBS comedies All Grown Up Fear, Wayne’s World, Pope of and The Papdits. Village, Frequency, Fracture, The Idol After establishing himself as an executive by running long-form development and Maker and the recently released Source Code. Koch also served as production for , Chuck Fries and The Guber/Peters Company, Nunan began his network-program- the president of Rastar Productions, Inc., where he oversaw the pro- ming career as the Vice President in charge of movies at ABC. Moving on to Fox, he ran the enormously successful ductions of Peggy Sue Got Married, Nothing in Common, and The comedy department, spearheading such groundbreaking programs as The Show, Martin, In Living Color, Secret of My Success, among others. At the of his career, he Mad TV and Flying Blind. This success led to his promotion to oversee all of Fox’s primetime. As president of NBC was a jack-of-all-trades serving in such capacities as dialogue coach, Studios, Nunan grew the once tiniest of vertically integrated production companies into NBC’s largest supplier of second unit director and first assistant director, working alongside programming, including some of network’s most cherished shows, including Will & Grace, Profiler and The Pre- , Alan Pakula, Hal Wallis, William Castle, Roman tender. Prior to forming B.E.E., Nunan was President of The United Paramount Network (UPN) now known as The Polanski, and on such legendary CW, growing it from two nights of programming a week to six. films as Chinatown, Marathon Man, Rosemary’s Baby, Bob & Carol Nunan is proud of his work as Chairman of The Joyful Heart Foundation, which works to foster a community and Ted & Alice, , The Odd Couple, Barefoot in that turns toward the issues of sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse. the Park and Parallax View.

producers MARKETPLACE Judges Bonnie Arnold, Producer (How to Train Your Dragon, The Last Station, Toy Story) Albert Berger, Producer (, , , Bee Season) Carl Franklin, Writer/Director (Devil in a Blue Dress, High Crimes, El Chico Blanco) PROD U CERS M ARKE T PLACE

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Michael Acosta RYan Slattery Aisha Summers [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (323) 825-2654 (818) 795-3456 707-280-4775

Michael Acosta is an emerging producer in film, Ryan Slattery grew up in the industry as Aisha Nia Summers grew up in Northern Cali- television, and new media. Born in El Paso, an actor, with credits in film and television fornia, surrounded by a progressive educated Texas, he was inspired to make movies at a including MGM’s Sleepover, and JAG on CBS. Black family culture. She received her under- young age by films like Raiders of the Lost Ark He received his undergraduate degree from graduate degree from Howard University, and Back to the Future, and later attended , where he studied Dramatic where she majored in journalism and minored the NYU Kanbar Institute of Film & Television. Arts and Film Studies. While at Harvard, Ryan in theatre. When Aisha returned to California For nearly five years Acosta has worked in the wrote, produced, and directed At Ease, a film she moved to Los Angeles and worked at a entertainment industry, including stints with about the U.S. military’s discriminatory Don’t voice over agency, a talent agency and at some of the world’s most creative and success- Ask, Don’t Tell policy. The film received critical Warner Bros in TV development for the past ful producers of content including the BBC, acclaim and is now available on . At three years. Aisha has worked on several films ABC, and acclaimed director . UCLA, Ryan is part of the TV Writer/Producer and is interested in creating movies and TV He received his MFA from the prestigious UCLA track, in which he has written several specs and shows that portray realistic, introspective and Producers Program where he continued to original pilots, and he intends to pursue televi- positive images of African Americans. Aisha develop his skills of storytelling and producing, sion as his career. Most recently, he has worked is committed to creating material for the while becoming truly passionate about physical in the writers’ rooms of Brothers & Sisters and talented tenth. production. Michael hopes to create innovative No Ordinary Family, both for ABC, and has also and compelling content that excites audiences served as a consultant for Academy Award® H CONFESSIONS OF A MODERN DAY DOG around the world, like those that sparked his winning screenwriter Bobby Moresco (Crash). Titan Brown, a Black Buppie, is a man trying to own love of visual storytelling. Ryan particularly desires to tell stories that find himself through relationships with three advance themes of social justice and equality. unique women, only to discover that as he finds H THE POKER KID out what is important to him, he may loose “the A luckless Vegas loser and his foul-mouthed H BURDEN OF PROOF One” he wants in the process. companion hit the jackpot when they discover Written by Academy Award®-winning writer a 9 year-old poker wiz who always wins. But, Bobby Moresco (Crash), this project is the grip- they run into problems when their harebrained ping story of an innocent man who has spent get-rich-quick scheme backfires and the two his life behind bars, only to be released as the are forced to become an unlikely pair of foster monster the system wanted him to be. fathers. PROD U CERS M ARKE T PLACE

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Honoree: Stacey Snider, Champion Spirit Award Honoree: Lisa Cholodenko, Filmmaker of the Year Also presented: The Panavision Award in Cinematography Special Guests: , Director Annette Bening, Actor Richard Crudo, Cinematographer Shawn Levy, Director/Producer Directors Spotlight is an evening for selected student filmmakers to present their work. The films seen this eve- ning have been chosen through a series of individual panels consisting of students and industry professionals after viewing many hours of animated, fiction and documentary work completed this year. Students in the ani- mation and production/directing program both graduate and undergraduate met and viewed over 18 hours of projects on April 30, May 6 and May 7. They recommended over 3 hours of projects to move to a Blue Ribbon Jury who met the evening of May 12 to view the finalists and determine the Spotlight films seen this evening. The Directors Spotlight night offers outstanding talent and since its inception more than two decades ago our Festival has helped launch the careers of talented filmmakers such as Alexander Payne (), Patricia Cardoso (Real Women Have Curves), Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight), (Pirates of the Caribbean), Gil Kenan (Monster House), (Fast Five) and Shane Acker (9). spotlight winners’ Film Screenings

THE PROMISED LAND (15:00) Directed by Vanessa Knutsen PULLOVER (16:53) Directed by Camilo Salazar ORANGE DRIVE (10:46) Directed by Mark Lester BROTHERS (11:24) Directed by Lou Nakasako THE LIGHTHOUSE (7:30) Directed by Po-Chou Chi THE JOCKSTRAP RAIDERS (18:30) Directed by Mark Nelson UNA CARRERITA, DOCTOR! (10:20) Directed by Julio Ramos CONTRA EL MAR (19:00) Directed by Richard Parkin

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Presented by Shawn Levy Honoree: STACEY SNIDER CHAMPION SPIRIT AWARD WINNER Stacey Snider is a partner of DreamWorks Studios with , as well as its Co-Chairman and CEO. She oversees all film development and production and the company’s business strategy. The studio’s upcoming releases include Cowboys & Aliens, starring , Olivia Wilde, and Harrison Ford and directed by Jon Favreau, The Help, based on best-selling book and starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, , and Octavia Spencer, Real Steel, starring , and the Steven Spielberg directed War Horse based on Michael Morpurgo’s award-winning book. Snider joined DreamWorks in 2006, after which the studio’s releases included several highly ac- claimed features including ’s Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, nominated for a total of six Academy Awards. The studio’s other high profile releases included Dreamgirls, The Kite Runner, Sweeney Todd, Disturbia and Transformers. Prior to joining DreamWorks, Snider served as Chairman of , where she had remark- able success with an output of films that were domestic and international hits while also earning wide critical praise. The franchises she originated and oversaw include The Bourne series, The Mummy series, the American Pie series, The Fast and the Furious series, and Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers. Erin Brockovich, A Beautiful Mind, Seabiscuit, Ray, Lost in Translation, and were among the films that won critical and Academy Award® recognition. Before she came to Universal, Snider was President of TriStar Pictures, following her position as Executive Vice President of Guber Peters Entertainment. In addition to her many professional achievements, Snider serves on the boards of City Year, a national youth service organization, the Special Olympics of Southern California, by whom she has been honored, and the American Film Institute. In 2004, the American Jewish Committee honored Snider with the Dorothy and Sherrill C. Corwain Human Relations Award for professional and civic endeavors that have helped to promote tolerance and understanding.

The distinguished Champion Spirit Award, created in 2010, recognizes a person in the entertainment industry who has courage, integrity, insight and inspiration and is dedicated to fostering and nurturing emerging talent.

Past winner: (2010)

direc t ors DIRECTORS SPOTLIGHT 20 www.tft.ucla.edu/festival2011 Presented by Michael Apted Presented by Suzanne Lezotte Worldwide Marketing Communications Director and Special Guest Annette Bening Panavision Honoree: LISA CHOLODENKO Special Guest Richard Crudo, ASC FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR Panavision Award Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right (2010) was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. The critically acclaimed in Cinematography film won Best Comedy at The Golden Globes and Cholodenko and co-writer also won a Spirit award for Best Original Screenplay and a Best Screenplay Recipient: Jeanne Tyson nod from The New York Film Critics Circle. Cholodenko grew up in the San Fernando The Panavision New Filmmaker Package Grant is awarded to Valley and began working in the film industry in the early , as an assistant a student cinematographer for outstanding work. Valued at editor on (1991) and Used People (1992). She then moved to New approximately $60,000, the grant will provide a complete York City and earned an MFA in screenwriting and directing at camera package to be used by the recipient for the production School of the Arts. After writing and directing an award-winning short film, “Dinner of their next project. The grant winner is selected by a vote of Party” (1997), she made her feature debut with (1998), which won the student peers who have reviewed all films submitted to the National Society of Film Critics award for ’s performance and The Waldo UCLA Festival of New Creative Work. Salt Screenwriting award at the . Both High Art and her second Jeanne Tyson is a cinematographer who is originally from feature, Laurel Canyon (2002), premiered in the ’s Directors Mobile, Alabama. She will be graduating from UCLA’s MFA Fortnight program. In addition to feature length film for Showtime, Cavedweller program for Film Production and Cinematography in June. (2004), which garnered Spirit nominations for stars Kyra Sedgewick and Aiden Jeanne completed production with Director Jon Crawford Quinn, Cholodenko has directed episodes of such acclaimed series as Homicide: Life in Arkansas on Foot Soldier in 2010. In 2011 Jeanne has on the Street, Six Feet Under, The L Word and Hung. She is currently developing an completed production on an independent feature film directed adaptation of ’s novel, The Abstinence Teacher, for Warner Brothers by Elias Mael, Against the Grain, as well as a UCLA graduate and a new series for HBO. thesis project directed by Keith Hedlund, Some Money. She has several projects for the remainder of the year in pre- Lee Daniels (2010); Gina Prince-Bythewood* (2009); Daniel Past Honorees: production including a series pilot for a writer and performer Attias* (2008); Jonathan Dayton* and Valerie Faris* (2007); * (2006); from The Second City in Chicago. In addition to shooting, she Brad Silberling* (2005); Gore Verbinski* (2004); Catherine Hardwicke* (2004); has started her teaching career at UCLA Extension, where she Patricia Cardoso* (2003); Todd Holland* (2002); Penelope Spheeris* (2001); is teaching a course titled The Craft of the Cinematographer. Alexander Payne* (2000) *Alumnus Founded in 1954, Panavision Inc is a leading designer of film and digital cameras, lenses and accessories for the motion picture and television industries. Panavision systems are rented through its domestic and international owned and operated DIREC T ORS SPO LIGH facilities and distributor network. Panavision also supplies lighting, grip and crane equipment for use by motion picture and television productions.

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Special Guest Annette Bening Two-time Golden Globe-winner Annette Bening was most recently seen in ’ critical and commercial sensation The Kids Are All Right, in which she played opposite and . Her role as Nic earned her a Golden Globe® and New York Film Critics Circle award, and Oscar®, , Critics Choice, and Independent Spirit nominations in the “Best Actress” category. In 2010, Annette also starred in Classics’ Mother and Child for writer-director Rodrigo Garcia co-starring Naomi Watts. In 2008, Annette was seen on the big screen in writer-director Diane English’s remake of The Women, starring alongside , and Jada Pinkett-Smith. Prior to that, she starred in the 2006 film Running with Scissors for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe® Award. Annette was ‘Julia Lambert’ in Being Julia for , the role that earned the actress her third Oscar® nomination. For that performance, she was also named the National Board of Review’s “Best Actress,” won the Golden Globe® award for “Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical/Comedy,” and received a SAG nomination for “Best Actress.” She also starred in Mrs. Harris with for HBO, earning an Emmy®, SAG, and Golden Globe® nomination. She starred in the critically acclaimed film American Beauty, for which she received both an Academy Award® nomination and a Golden Globe® nomination for “Best Actress/Drama”. Her performance in the film earned her a Screen Actors Guild Award and the BAFTA (British Academy) Award. Her other film credits include ’s In Dreams, and The Siege, opposite Denzel Washington and . Annette has been honored at the Deauville, Boston, Palm Springs and Chicago Film Festivals with Lifetime Achievement Awards, as well as receiving the Donostia Prize at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Most recently, Annette was honored with the “Actress of the Year” award at the Hollywood Film Festival and the American Riviera Award at this year’s Santa Barbara Film Festival. She received her first Academy Award® nomination and was named “Best Supporting Actress” by the National Board of Review for her role in The Grifters. She also received a Golden Globe® nomination for her starring role in ’s The American President, opposite Michael Douglas. Bening also had supporting roles in ’s Mars Attacks!, and in Sir Ian McKellen’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III. Her other film credits include: Love Affair with ; ’s Bugsy, also opposite Beatty, for which she received a Golden Globe® nomination, Regarding Henry with Harrison Ford and directed by Mike Nichols; Guilty By Suspicion, opposite Robert DeNiro; Milos Forman’s Valmont; and Postcards From The Edge. Annette’s theater credits include the play at Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum in 2006, and ’s Talking Heads, at the Tiffany Theater in Los Angeles. She also played the title role in Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler in March 1999 at Los Angeles’ Geffen Playhouse. She has appeared on stage in Medea at UCLA, and in The Female of the Species, also at the Geffen Playhouse. DIRECTORS SPOTLIGHT Champion spirit Award Presented by Michael Apted Champion spirit Award Presented by Shawn Levy A veteran feature and documentary , Mr. Apted joined the Shawn Levy is one of the most commercially successful film directors of DGA in 1978, was elected to the Western Directors Council in 1997 the past decade. To date, his films have grossed over 1.6 billion dollars and became the Fifth Vice President of the National Board in 2002. A worldwide. Currently, Levy is finishing up post-production on the futuristic filmmaker who has enjoyed success in three distinct filmmaking arenas, boxing drama, Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman. Also rolling out this fall is the , the documentary, and the major studio feature, the Levy-produced ABC sitcom, Last Days of Man, starring Tim Allen. Mr. Apted has served on the DGA Independent Directors Committee In 2010, Levy directed and produced Date Night, starring Steve Carell since its inception and served as its chairperson until he was elected and , which grossed over $150 million worldwide. Levy’s also President at the DGA biennial convention in June 2003. He served produced the hit comedy What Happens in Vegas, starring Cameron Diaz three terms as President of the Guild, which he concluded in July 2009. and Aston Kutcher, which earned over $200 million. Levy both produced Since the 1960s, Mr. Apted has helmed an extensive list of feature and directed the blockbuster Night at the Museum franchise, starring films and documentaries. His feature films include the recent Amazing Ben Stiller. To date, the franchise has netted more than a billion dollars in Grace for , as well as , Coalminer’s worldwide box office. Previously, Levy directed the hit 2006 comedy The Daughter, , Gorky Park, , Nell, Enigma, and Enough. His Pink Panther and the smash hit Cheaper by The Dozen, both starring . The latter grossed most recent film, the third installment of C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the more than $200 million worldwide. Dawn Treader for Walden Media and Twentieth Century Fox was released in December 2010. Levy graduated at the age of 20 from the Drama Department of . He later studied Mr. Apted’s documentary credits include , Bring on the Night, Moving the film in the Masters Film Production Program at USC where he produced and directed the short film Mountain, Me and Isaac Newton and the recent Power of the Game. But among Mr. Apted’s most Record, which won the Gold Plaque at the Chicago Film Festival and was selected to screen at widely recognized documentary directorial achievements are his internationally acclaimed, multi- the Director’s Guild of America. award winning sequels based on the original 7 UP documentary: 7 Plus 7, 21, 28, 35, 42 UP and most recently, 49 UP, which have followed the lives of 14 Britons since the age of seven in seven year increments. SPECIAL GUEST Richard Crudo, ASC, 2011 Kodak In addition to his documentary and feature work, Mr. Apted has worked extensively in television, including directing the first three episodes of HBO’s epic series Rome. Cinematographer-in-Residence at UCLA Mr. Apted was born in England in 1941 and studied law and history at Cambridge University. Richard Crudo, ASC, was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and He has received numerous awards and nominations for his extensive body of work, including studied at St. Johns University and in the Film Arts program at Columbia a Grammy, a British Academy Award, a DGA Award and the International Documentary University. He began his career in the 1980s as an assistant cameraman Association’s highest honor, the IDA Career Achievement Award. By the order of Queen Elizabeth to , Michael Chapman and Steadicam operators Larry II, Mr. Apted was recently made a Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George for McConkey and Ted Churchill.and became a cinematographer in 1991. His his work in the film and television industries. career includes such notable feature credits as American Buffalo, Outside Providence, American Pie, Down to Earth and Out Cold. He also directed the feature film Against the Dark. More recently he has contributed additional photography to the FX series, Justified. He is a three-time past president of the American Society of Cinematographers and is currently a vice president of the organization. direc t ors SPO T LIGH

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Po-Chou Chi VANESSA KNUTSEN [email protected] [email protected] (310) 880-8257 (310) 467-9995

Po Chou Chi, was born and grew up in Taiwan. Vanessa Knutsen earned her Directing MFA He majored in oil painting when he studied in from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and college earning his first Masters in Applied Arts. Television. While at UCLA, Vanessa directed He then started to create animation films. In four short films The Deep End, About A Girl, 2006, his first 3D animation film, The Drawer The Weekend, and her thesis film The Prom- of Memory received many awards and was ised Land. Born in and raised in both screened in many different countries, including Tel-Aviv and New York, Vanessa served in the Germany, Japan, China, , Korea, Israeli Army and attended Yale University for and . That led Po Chou Chi to being her undergraduate studies. She has worked in BLUE RIBBON PANEL (L to R): Faculty member Nancy Richardson; panelists Marie Cantin, Patricia determined to be an animation director. He went both the film and television industries; having Cardoso, Cassidy Lange, Julie Anne Robinson, Mike Miner, David Gayle and Cotty Chub; faculty to UCLA in 2009 to study for his second MFA interned at GENART and Produc- member Barbara Boyle. and is still working hard to achieve that goal. The tions and has worked at the independent Lighthouse is his second independent animation Greenestreet Films and on film, and the story idea is based upon his own the Bad Robot/ABC TV show What About Brian. BLUE RIBBON PANEL OF JUDGES *Alumnus experience when he came to UCLA to search for Vanessa is currently developing her thesis into a his dream. Just a few months ago he become feature and polishing her biopic Mad Madalyn. Cassidy Lange, Vice President Development MGM a father, and coming to UCLA and becoming a Marie Cantin, Producer (Days Of Wrath, Welcome To The Jungle, A Night At The Roxbury) father was a life transition. This encouraged him H The Promised Land (15:00) to do a project which focuses on story telling and Mary, an illegal foreign worker living in Israel Michael Miner, Writer-Director (Robocop, Deadly Weapon) touches his audience in some way. under strict deportation laws is faced with the Julie Ann Robinson, Director (, The Last Song) most painful and difficult decision of her life. H THE Lighthouse (7:30) Cotty Chubb, Producer (Appaloosa, Believe In Me, To Sleep With Anger, Eve’s Bayou) The Lighthouse is a film related to the director’s Patricia Cardoso, Director (Real Women Have Curves) * own experience. The story is about parents sup- port their children to make dreams come true. David Gale, Executive Vice President, MTV Cross Media No matter what happened, parents will be always waiting for their children, just like the lighthouse forever lighting for the boats. direc t ors spo ligh

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Marie Lee Mark Lester Lou Nakasako Mark Nelson [email protected] [email protected] lnakosako@gmail [email protected] (310) 850-1230 (714) 277-8485 (415) 533-0948 (323) 854-7849

Marie Lee has wanted to make films since she I’m a 4th year director in the undergraduate Lou Nakasako was first exposed to the world of Mark Nelson is a visual-effects artist and film- was five years old and has her kindergarten program and Orange Drive is my thesis film. Here filmmaking in high school at a youth summer maker living in Los Angeles. His films have been yearbook to prove it. A New York native, she at UCLA, I’ve had the opportunity to make PSAs, program in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighbor- shown in many festivals, including Animex studied French and English at Tufts University music videos, action films, and comedy shorts. I hood. The program encouraged students to Festival of Animation, Seoul International Film and recently completed her MFA in Film Produc- work closely with the Wait List, a comedy group produce work based on their own experiences, Festival, and Nicktoons Film Festival. Mark has tion/Directing at UCLA. Marie has interned with established at UCLA, and have produced short and opened up his eyes to the possibilities of also been working in the animation and visual Maysie Hoy, A.C.E. on ’s I Can Do Bad films for the Laugh Factory and MTV. Now that personal storytelling. At City College of San effects industry for several years. He has worked All By Myself, and at Animation Studios on I am leaving the university, I hope to continue Francisco, he made a film about the lack of Asian on such films as 9 (2009), (2009), and 2. Her thesis film, Monkey, is the recipient working on comedy films with MTV as well as American male characters in Hollywood, 2 (2010). The Jockstrap Raiders is his of the Edie and Lew Wasserman Fellowship and creating music videos for independent bands. Not Chinese, which went on to win “The One to thesis, and final film, at UCLA. the Frank Gaeta Sound Design Grant. The 2011 Watch For” award at the New York International UCLA Directors Spotlight marks its first official H ORANGE DRIVE (10:46) Shotgun. Asian American Film Festival. He has interned H The Jockstrap Raiders (18:30) screening. Marie currently lives in Los Angeles at Michael DeLuca Productions, and is currently Set in world war one, an unlikely group of misfits and works as a freelance editor for .com. interning at Rick and Julie Yorn’s production from Leeds England, must save the world. company. Brothers is Lou’s undergraduate thesis H Monkey (22:17) film at UCLA’s Film and Television Department. Fourteen year-old Jamie’s world is turned upside down after she finds a suspicious look- H Brothers (11:24) ing business card in her father’s wallet. Two brothers—one good, the other bad—but after spending one long night together, they learn life is not always that simple direc t ors SPO T LIGH direc t ors

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The Graduate Acting program at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television is a comprehensive three-year course of study leading to a Master of Fine Arts Degree. The program is taught by permanent faculty, adjunct professors and professional actors and directors. Students are chosen from candidates who have passed an audition by Richard Parkin Camilo Salazar PriNce Julio Ramos showing promise, talent and dedication for [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] the work. The program is full-time and the (951) 529-5994 (323) 889-9552 (708) 359-9407 students are fully committed to all classes, workshops and performance projects. Richard Parkin is a Los Angeles based filmmaker Camilo Salazar Prince is a plagiarist with A native of Peru, Julio O. Ramos, left his jour- The program is rigorous, intensive and and writer. In 2005, he graduated with honors sporadic mundane philosophical insights into nalist career at the San Martin de Porres Univer- demanding. Consistent progress and achieve- from the University of California, Berkeley and the very essence of boredom, lowbrow humor sity to come the United States and become a ment are required of our students, whose was the 2004–2005 recipient of the Roselyn and the evolutionary but nonsensical urge to filmmaker. He attended Columbia College of principle aim is to become professional Schneider Eisner Prize; UC Berkeley’s highest mate. In his brief but ever-expanding time on Chicago where he won the first place in the actors. The aim of the program is to explore recognition in Film/Video arts. Currently, this planet he has successfully run an illegal CCC Student Latino film festival two consecu- their use of self, their imagination, body and Richard is completing an MFA in Film Directing sandwich cartel in Colombia, escaped from tive years with his films, Forgiven and NoOne. voice and to develop their skills in reading at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Televi- a fake kidnapping, and fought off gangster Julio now pursues his MFA at the prestigious and responding to text—which is why both sion where he has received the 2008 Graduate sea urchin divers and a rebellious baby pig in UCLA School of Theater, Film and Televi- text analysis and theatre history are required Opportunity Scholarship, 2009 Motion Picture Tijuana. He also graduated from UC Berkley sion. His first year film, El Bolerito (The Shoe components of the training. The overall Association of America Award, and the 2010 with high honors in scholarship with a degree Shiner), has recently won the Jury Prize in the design is based on how the actor acquires a Army Archerd Fellowship. He is preparing his in philosophy, and is currently an MFA Directing Latino student section at the Directors Guild of process, or a way of working. And of course thesis film with support from the Joseph W. candidate at UCLA. He has published articles America (DGA) annual awards. ¡Una Carrerita, this is largely personal: each actor takes what Drown Award for Motion Picture Production on Heidegger’s notion of temporality, Terrance Doctor! (A Doctor’s Job), is Julio’s second year he or she can. and the Edie and Lew Wasserman Film Produc- Malick’s Thin Red Line and the phenomeno- project as a UCLA Graduate Student, but it is The essential spirit of the UCLA acting tion Fellowship. For more information visit logical aspects of film. His films have screened the very first narrative project that he directed program is based on eclecticism, various Richard’s web site: www.richard-parkin.com in festivals all over the world and have received in his beloved Peru. The success of this film has points of view and multiplicity of experience. numerous awards in the past including The made him certain that he wants to keep making We do not profess to be disciples of any one H Contra El Mar (19:00) Judith Lee Stronach Grant and The Eisner award movies in Peru, and not only is he scheduled to method or system of acting. Each actor learns Despite his wife’s disapproval, Hector bides in Film to name a few. Leave No Cloud Behind, shoot his thesis film in Lima in early August, but how to become their own best teacher, a skill his time as a deep-sea diver to provide for his a short film he co-wrote with Pablo Gonzalez, he is also developing his first feature film which that will become increasingly valuable as their family and to save for his own fishing boat. was recently acquired by Canal + to air on he hopes to shoot in 2012. career evolves. But after an accident at sea, Hector is forced French television. He is currently working on to confront the deadly nature of his profession completing his Tres Tristes Tigres Trilogy, of H Una Carrerita Doctor! (10:20) and the responsibilities to his family. which Pullover is the second installment. A doctor, forced by circumstance to also drive a cab, finds himself challenged by his latest fare. H Pullover (16:53) Francis is stuck inside his sweater. direc t ors spo ligh

26 www.tft.ucla.edu/festival Vikas Adam Jane Bacon Sam Bianchini Terrence Colby Clemons (972) 333-3868 (845) 313-7479 (610) 585-4461 (404) 246-7349 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Vikas Adam received his MFA in Acting from Jane hails from Upstate New York where she Sam Bianchini is an actress/creator/marathon Terrence Colby Clemons is originally from Atlan- UCLA and his BFA in Acting/Directing from received her BFA in Music Theatre from the runner who received her BFA from Roosevelt ta, Georgia. He received his BA in Theatre from . A versatile actor whose University at Buffalo. From there she moved to University in Chicago and her MFA at UCLA. A Morehouse College and an MFA in Acting from work runs the gamut from indie films to web NYC, performing on many off-off enthusiast to the core, she worked with UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film, and Television. series to stage, some of his favorite camera and stages, including the American Theatre of many companies in her short time in Chicago, Recent Los Angeles stage credits include Bonded stage credits include playing Ahmed in Pink Actors. Her portrayal of Phoebe in As You Like receiving Critic’s Choice for a small space, big (Jon Lawrence Rivera, Ovation Recommended), on hulu.com, Rob in The Fourth Wall, Johnnie It (at ATA) won her the Jean Dalrymple Award heart show called The Nebraska Project. She Forgotten World (Dir. Shirley Jo Finney), the title in Hollywood NOS, Dead Boy 3 in Forgotten for Best Supporting Actress. Jane is very proud worked in LA with upcoming theatre director role in Hamlet (LATC), and the US Premiere of World, and Alceste in The Misanthrope. Com- to be a graduate of the prestigious UCLA MFA Jeremy Aluma, whom she is proud to call friend Three Sisters After Chekhov (Dir. Gregg Daniel). mercial work includes Sprite and Yahtzee. Vikas acting program. Her work as Varya in Mel Shap- and collaborator. Upon graduation, she made Terrence was nominated for a Kennedy Center is also noted for his skills as a director, writer, iro’s The Cherry Orchard is amongst her favorite her homebase back in the Chicago theatre Ryan Award for his portrayal of Lady in House teacher, non-profit arts administrator, and stage experiences. Jane hopes to get more scene, where she is co-artistic director of the Of Dinah and was recently a recipient of the social worker. involved in television and film now that she has new company, The Commune. You can find her Rod Steiger Award for Excellence in Acting. In made Los Angeles her home. running on the lakefront path or sipping coffee addition to theatre, Terrence has also graced the at Intelligentsia in the wee hours of the morning. silver screen in films such as Hollywood NOS (Dir. Roberto Donati) and Oblivious to the Obvious (Pink Lion Films).

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Sandra Smith Jackson Thompson Joe Tower Carolyn Marie Wright (712) 330-7329 (571) 246-3835 (818) 205-7943 (203) 314-4925 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Sandra Smith is a recent graduate of the MFA Jackson Thompson received a Bachelor of Joe Tower is a performer from Chicago where Carolyn hails from Upstate New York and has Acting program at UCLA, where she received Science Degree from James Madison University he received his BA in creative writing from performed both on stage and on screen in New the Sony/Streisand Excellence in ActingScholar- in Theatre before getting an MFA in acting Columbia College, where he also taught. He re- York, Chicago and Los Angeles. She recently ship and the Laura Pels Fellowship in Acting. from UCLA. He made his professional theatre cently completed his MFA in acting from UCLA. completed her MFA in Acting at UCLA, where Sandra is a singer/dancer as well as an actress. debut playing D’Artagnan in Theatricum He has trained theatrically at the British Ameri- she received the 2010 George Burns and Gracie She has been cast in the leads in over a dozen Botanicum’s The Three Musketeers, and has can Drama Academy and The Guthrie Theatre Allen Fellowship in Comedy. This year, Carolyn plays, including two musicals. In 2010, Sandra starred in several university productions, most in both classical and contemporary methods. joined SAG and will be showing off her gymnas- originated the role of Moll in Into You, a play notably playing Hamlet in UCLA’s production Currently he is associated with VS. Theatre and tics and capoera skills in the upcoming web written by Pulitzer prize nominee, Lee Blessing. of the Shakespearean classic. He would like to Ark Theatre Company. series The Trainee, directed by Miguel Alvarez. Sandra was also a lead in the musical, Is There thank his friends and family for their wonderful Carolyn also holds an MA in Educational Theater Life After High School? at the Los Angeles continued support. from NYU and a BA in Theater Studies from Theatre Center (LATC), and, in 2011, a lead in Yale. She is a member of Off the Grid Improv Forgotten World, directed by Award Winning and The Ark Theatre Company, and she is a theatre director, Shirley Jo Finney. Sandra can Teaching Artist with Will Geer’s Theatricum be seen in the two woman play, Dolores, this Botanicum. For more information: www.carolyn- June and is scheduled to begin shooting the mariewright.com Web Series, How Do You Want It? AC T ORS

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CRaig Jesson Ayla Harrison Alexander Maggio [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Craig Jessen is a director, playwright, and actor. Ayla Harrison’s works include: Swell Season Alexander Maggio is a Los Angeles–based He earned a BFA in Performance at Southern (LATC), Into The Wild Blue (Francis Ford playwright and recent graduate of UCLA’s Oregon University in 2005, and an MFA in Play- Coppola New Play Festival), My ‘Gina (La School of Theater, Film and Television. His MFA writing at UCLA in 2010. Some of his directing MaMa–NY), Spanky & Spry (Counting Squares thesis play, Lost Cause, is a 2011 Kendeda prize credits include N. Richard Nash’s Echoes, Lee Theatre Co–NY), Buck Fuddies (Piano Fight runner-up and an O’Neill Semifinalist. His first Blessing’s Two Rooms, Lawrence and Lee’s The Productions–LA), Darkroom (Tennessee play, Ice Core, received a staged reading at Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, and most recently Women’s Theatre Project), and The Progeny the Yale Club of and as part of Conor Hanratty Romeo and Juliet. As a playwright, some of his (Orlando Shakespeare Festival). Ayla is the the Marianne Murphy Women & Philanthropy [email protected] produced work includes Pylon, Alice Through recipient of the 2006 Kennedy Center Directing Award Series in Los Angeles. His one-act play the Looking Glass and Chasm. His short plays Award for Best New Work, 2009 Army Archerd White Kisses was featured in the 2009 Francis Originally from , Ireland, Conor studied Fear of Zombies and Time Traveler’s Remorse Fellowship in Theatre, Film & Television Writing, Ford Coppola One-Act Festival at UCLA, where Drama and Latin at Trinity College, Dublin have been recently performed in New York, 2010 Fred J Thorp Fellowship in Playwriting and he was also a 2009 recipient of the George before receiving an MA in Greek Theatre Perfor- Chicago, and Seattle. Acting credits include the Marianne Murphy Women and Philanthropy Burns and Gracie Allen Scholarship and Fellow- mance at Royal Holloway, University of . Sylvestre in Scapin, Artie in The House of Blue Playwriting Award in both 2009 and 2010. She ship in Comedy Award and the 2010 Richard He worked in Tokyo, Japan for two years, on Leaves, and George in Of Mice and Men. has helped develop plays at Woolly Mammoth E. Eshleman Playwriting Award. His second a scholarship from the Japanese government, Theatre Co in DC and worked alongside Tony full-length play, Touchdown Jesus, a Princess as an intern with director Yukio Ninagawa. Award nominated playwright Neil LaBute at The Grace Semifinalist, has received staged readings He returned to Ireland in 2006 to participate Geffen. Ayla is currently developing a televi- with the Yale Cabaret in Hollywood and UCLA. in Rough Magic Theatre Company’s SEEDS III sion pilot with Davis Entertainment. She holds His ten-minute play, Hero’s Luck, was featured artist development programme, which led to an MFA in Playwriting from UCLA and a BFA in in the 2010 Theater Masters National MFA opportunities in Berlin, Germany and Budapest, Acting from the University of Central . Playwrights Take 10 festival in Aspen, CO and Hungary, and an invitation to the prestigious She is repped by Madhouse Entertainment. later showcased in New York City. Another ten- Directors’ Course at the National Theatre Studio minute play, Waiting Gate, was performed at in London. The programme ended with his the Santa Cruz Actors’ Theatre Best of the Rest acclaimed production of Camus’ Caligula at Festival. In fiction, his short story “The Barnacle the Fringe Festival in 2007, later revived for the Climber” placed second in the Coffee House Dublin International Theatre Festival in 2008. Dame Throckmorton Writing Contest. Alex Conor is also a long-term associate of the Inten- received his B.A. from Yale University, where he sive Summer Course on Ancient Greek Drama studied playwriting under Sarah Treem. organized in Epidaurus, under the aus- pices of the Hellenic Festival and the University of Athens, and he recently finished co-editing a Playwrights book of essays presented at the course, entitled Epidaurus Encounters. Productions at UCLA have included Conor’s own translation of Yukio Mishima’s Modern Noh Plays, a new play called Last Autumn by Adam Simon, Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and Samuel Barber’s STAGE Directors opera A Hand of Bridge, presented at Schoen- berg Hall in June 2010.

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LAURA WONG Daniella Yorah Cartun Caitlin Talmage [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Laura Wong is a Costume Designer who will be Daniella Yorah Cartun is a designer, vocalist, Caitlin Talmage is an MFA candidate for graduating this June with her MFA from UCLA. and actress from Stanford, CA. Having sewn all Costume Design at UCLA. Her theatrical credits She is passionate about the study of non-West- her life, she was introduced into the world of include Arlecchino’s Dream, Assassins, and ern dress, and would love to work on projects costuming at Lawrence University. Her love of Temp Odyssey. She has decided to pursue that give voice to the underrepresented. Laura art history and theater created a clear niche for costume design for film, and has worked as a specializes in Japanese costume and textiles and her in the design world. She is a master seam- costumer on Discovery Channel gritty historical Monica Payne has studied the subject extensively in Japan and stress as well as designer, and she uses art and reenactments and sunny films such as The Don- [email protected] in the United States. Her undergraduate studies art history to inspire her creativity. The culmina- ner Party. She has also worked on lighter fare, culminated in her honors thesis, which was a in tion of her undergraduate degree in Theater assisting on television shows 90201 and Do Not Monica Payne moved to Los Angeles four years a gallery show titled “Fringe Cultures.” Laura and Art History was to co-produce, costume Disturb, and currently is working on a new peri- ago, having spent most of her career in Chicago. has also completed several internships in both design and star as Sally Bowles in the Lawrence od The Magic City. Recently she While in the MFA Directing program, she di- theater and film. She worked as both a stitcher University 2008 production of Ebb and Kander’s has had the opportunity to work with LACMA rected Natural Affection by , Elektra and as an Assistant Designer while interning Cabaret. She returned to California to further on their upcoming show Fashioning Fashion. by Euripides, and Gross Sales by Erica Jones. She in the costume shop at the Seattle Repertory her education and receive an MFA in Costume Her passion lies in exploring the cultural analysis also wrote and directed an adaptation of Inno- Theatre, building costumes for the neighboring Design from UCLA’s School of Theater Film of clothing and its relationship to the zeitgeist. cent Erendira by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as well INTIMAN Theater during their Tony Award- and Television. Daniella passionately designs There is a reason why that Baroque ruff was so as a short film called Dad Dreaming. In Chicago, winning Summer 2006 season. In 2008 and each production with deep character analysis, large, after all. she directed two new plays by Adam Galassi and 2009, Laura interned with Bobi Garland, Head bringing to life the people written on the page. Justin O’Connor as well as Savage Love by Sam of the Research Library at Western Costume in Her passion is to tell stories through theater and Shepard, all for the Artistic Home. She directed a Burbank, CA. After graduation, she intends to music to enlighten the audience. week of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Plays and Erasing pursue design opportunities for theater, film, the Distance for the Chicago Festival of Disability and television. Arts and Culture. As an actress, her Chicago credits include work with the critically acclaimed PLAY W RIGH T S, S AGE DIREC ORS, COS TUM E DESIGNERS Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the Hypocrites, Famous Door, Collaboraction, Stage Left, the Journeymen, and the Artistic Home. Monica has been a Meisner-based acting teacher for more than a decade. She has taught privately here in Los Angeles, as well as at various studios in Chi- cago, including the School at Steppenwolf, the Audition Studio, and the Artistic Home. While at UCLA, she conducted several Viewpoints-based workshops for the Opera Department. Her stu- dents have gone on to work in television, film, and regional theatre.

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