FEB. 7–9 SCAD ATLANTA Presented by SCADFILM Go behind the screen. Log in to the SCAD aTVfest website for information, schedule, locations and more. aTVfest.com Share your experience. Presented by SCADFILM Tag your posts with #aTVfest. CONTENTS Welcome . .2 Festival info ................................ 4 Honorees ...................................6 Panels ......................................9 Screenings ..................................21 Sponsors ...................................40 WELCOME The seventh annual SCAD aTVfest features a celebrated lineup of writers, performers, directors, and producers during the university’s 40th anniversary. Television accelerates storytelling innovation, and at SCAD aTVfest, television superfans and SCAD’s future industry leaders convene to experience three enlightening days of panels, screenings, and conversations about the shows we adore. At SCAD, students across entertainment arts and related degree programs conceive and create award-winning programming in the university’s professional-level production sets, editing suites, and soundstages. Student-created television shows include Hot Case, Nailed It! and The Buzz, winner of an Emmy Award for Best Scripted Series at the 2017 College Television Awards. SCAD students have earned prestigious accolades, including 14 first-place honors for SCAD at the Southeast Emmy Student Production Awards in 2018. Advanced by the preeminent university for television and digital media, SCAD alumni contribute to Georgia’s $9.5 billion film and television industry. Welcome to the nexus of education and entertainment! Paula Wallace SCAD President and Founder 2 SCAD 101 MISSION STATEMENT SCAD prepares talented students for creative HAPPY professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment. SCAD-iversary PRIVATE | NONPROFIT | ACCREDITED 40 creative years More than Atlanta B.A. Hong Kong Bachelor of Arts 14,000 Lacoste B.F.A. Savannah Bachelor of Fine Arts from all 50 states and eLearning more than 100 countries M.A. Master of Arts M.F.A. Master of Fine Arts 40+ M.Arch. 600+ Master of Architecture % company visits in 2017–18 M.U.D. 99 75+ Master of Urban Design More than HOLLYWOOD HITS GOLDEN GLOBES STUDENT EMMYS 5,000 75+ 18 students enrolled in SCAD alumni credits nominations 2018 Student programs supporting the in 2018 Oscar-nominated for alumni- 14 Production entertainment industry movies credited work Awards ACCREDITATION Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges · National Architectural Accrediting Board · Council for Interior Design Accreditation · Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications For a complete description of institutional and programmatic accreditations, visit scad.edu/accreditation. *Percentage of Spring 2017 graduates who were employed, pursuing further education or both within 10 months of graduation, according to a recent study. 3 FESTIVAL INFO Festival venues SCAD Atlanta | Panel Rooms A/B SCADshow | Mainstage/Stage 2 1600 Peachtree St. NW 173 14th St. NE Parking and transportation Parking is free for all SCAD aTVfest attendees at SCAD Atlanta. Free shuttles run throughout the day between festival venues. Ticket policy Tickets to all SCAD aTVfest events are nonrefundable and nonexchangeable. By attending an SCAD aTVfest event, the participant(s) and guest(s) hereby irrevocably authorize SCAD, its affiliated companies and their agents, sponsors and partners, successors and assigns, and anyone authorized by them, to use, copyright, reproduce, publish, film, videotape, photograph and record their name, address, biographical data, photo, caricature, likeness, appearance, performance, voice and other resemblance or likeness, and to use the results and proceeds thereof in connection with television commercials, audiovisual works and derivative works including, without limitation, the rights to edit, copy, exhibit, transmit, perform, copyright, reproduce, display (on the website or otherwise), publish, license, sell and otherwise exploit all or any portion thereof in any and all media, whether now known or hereafter developed, throughout the universe in perpetuity, and they hereby waive any and all such rights and claims that they may have with respect to such use of their likeness. Security policy All patrons entering SCAD performance venues are subject to search and may be screened by security staff. No large bags, purses or backpacks are permitted inside the venues, and small bags are subject to search. Firearms of any kind are prohibited on SCAD property. SCAD reserves the right to refuse items that may cause a danger or disruption to the event or to other patrons. Any patron who declines to be searched or is in possession of prohibited items may be denied entry or ejected from the facility. By attending a SCAD aTVfest event, you agree to the terms located at scad.edu/event-terms. 4 HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER CHRISTINA AMERICAN THE AMERICANS GOTHAM MANIFEST RICCI WHEN WE RISE LILI TAYLOR CRIME JENNA ELFMAN CONNIE BRITTON AMERICAN DAD! MINDY KALING ORANGE IS NEW THE NEW BLACK AMSTERDAM MICHELLE MONAGHAN FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Now in its seventh year, SCAD aTVfest has honored and hosted some of the brightest stars and most groundbreaking shows in this golden era of television. ELLEN’S DESIGN CHALLENGE THE PATH ZACH ALAN CUMMING BRAFF THE WALKING TIMOTHY HUTTON FAMILY GUY GREY’S ANATOMY DEAD ELLIE SCANDAL TERRENCE KEMPER HOWARD THE MINDY PROJECT JENNIFER AMERICAN GODS MORRISON 5 SPOTLIGHT AWARD ELLIE KEMPER Thursday, Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m. SCADshow, Mainstage The star of Netflix’s Tina Fey and Robert Carlock comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Ellie Kemper has earned two Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for her breakout performance. Previously, Kemper portrayed Erin Hannon on NBC’s hit sitcom The Office. She first gained attention with her one-woman show Feeling Sad/Mad with Ellie Kemper at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Kemper’s other credits include a costarring role in Bridesmaids and appearances in 21 Jump Street, Identity Thief, They Came Together and Somewhere. A graduate of Princeton University, Kemper has also written for GQ, Esquire, McSweeney’s, The Onion and The New Yorker. 6 SCAD40 PRIZE MIR ZAFAR ALI Friday, Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m. SCADshow, Mainstage A native of Karachi, Pakistan, Mir Zafar Ali has achieved remarkable success as a visual effects artist on some of the most popular and honored animated films of all time. In the last six years alone, he has contributed to animated feature film Oscar winners Frozen, Big Hero 6 and Zootopia, along with Oscar nominee Moana. Ali started out creating digital effects for the 2004 disaster epic The Day After Tomorrow. This led to superhero work on Spider-Man 3, The Incredible Hulk and X-Men: First Class. His talents became more widely known working on The Golden Compass and Life of Pi, both Academy Award winners for Best Visual Effects. Inspired by Jurassic Park as a child, Ali began working on television commercials in Pakistan before moving to the U.S. to enroll at SCAD. With one quarter left before graduating, he sent his reel to visual effects powerhouse Digital Domain and was in Los Angeles two weeks later. Since then, he has worked at Sony Pictures Animation, Rhythm & Hues Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios. A member of the Visual Effects Society and the Animation Guild, Ali returned to SCAD to complete his degree in 2015. Awarded at signature events throughout this 40th anniversary year, the SCAD40 Prize is presented to graduates who give all of themselves — hand, head and heart — to their creative careers in the highest ranks of culture and business. 7 OUTSTANDING CAST AWARD NBC’s NEW AMSTERDAM Saturday, Feb. 9, 8 p.m. SCADshow, Mainstage Celebrate the talented cast of this inspiring medical drama. New Amsterdam tells the story of a new medical director intent on breaking the rules to heal the system at America’s oldest public hospital. Select cast members will be in attendance to accept the award. Ryan Eggold actor Jocko Sims actor Janet Montgomery actor Anupam Kher actor Freema Agyeman actor Tyler Labine actor 8 PANELS PANELS Thursday, Feb. 7 11 a.m. BREAK INTO TELEVISION: NICKELODEON SCAD Atlanta WRITING PROGRAM Panel Room A Do you dream of landing a job as a television writer, but don’t know where to begin? Here’s a hint: start with the Nickelodeon Writing Program. Join us and get the scoop on how to apply and develop your writing skills. PANELISTS Sherley Ibarra director of talent development and outreach, Nickelodeon Jeff Sayers writer, I Am Frankie, The Loud House, Every Witch Way 11 a.m. THE SCIENCE OF GREY’S ANATOMY SCAD Atlanta STORYTELLING Panel Room B Television brings a creative view of reality to our homes, where facts can be embellished or enhanced in the service of storytelling. But what happens if you don’t have that option? What happens when you need to create a compelling story while staying grounded in indisputable science? Join Fred Einesman and Michael Metzner as they dissect what goes into keeping it real on the longest running primetime medical drama in TV history. PANELISTS Fred Einesman executive producer Michael Metzner medical adviser 12:30 p.m. SCAD GETS REAL SCADshow Stage 2 Reality programs and docuseries are ubiquitous in television listings, garnering massive audiences. Join SCAD alumni for a revealing, first-person look behind the scenes of some of the most popular shows. PANELISTS Heidi Elnora (B.F.A., fashion, 2002), Project Runway, Bride by Design Candice Glover (B.F.A. dramatic writing), American Idol Merline Labissiere (B.F.A., fashion, 2011), Project Runway, Project Runway All Stars George Lovett (M.F.A. performing arts; B.F.A., performing arts, 2011), Showtime at the Apollo Michael Wilson Morgan (B.F.A., media and performing arts, 2001), True Grit 10 Thursday, Feb. 7 12:30 p.m. INSIDE THE WRITERS ROOM SCAD Atlanta Panel Room A This open conversation explores the process of selling and staffing a show from the perspective of literary agents and writers.