JUNE 3 - JUNE 9, 2011

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PRESENTS
JUNE 3 - JUNE 9, 2011
ALLISON ANDERS
Alumnus of the Year
LAWRENCE BENDER
UCLA SCHOOL OF THEATER, FILM AND TELEVISION
AND PRODUCERS GUILD OF AMERICA
LISA CHOLODENKO
Filmmaker of the Year
VISION AWARD
JUNE FORAY
Crystal ANVIL Award
FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION
TO ANIMATION
HONOREES
STACEY SNIDER
Champion Spirit AwarD
AARON SORKIN
Distinguished Achievement
in Screenwriting
FESTIVAL 2011 EVENTS
AND PROGRAM CONTENTS
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Honorees and Special Guests
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Welcome
Program Cover Design by Ian Roth, ’11
Friday June 3, 7:30 p.m. 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 | Billy Wilder Theater, Westwood
Thursday, June 9, 7:30 p.m. 19 Directors Spotlight | Director’s Guild of America Theater, Los Angeles
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MFA Actors
30 Playwrights, Stage Directors, Theatrical Designers
32 Acknowledgements
33 Contributors
with SPECIAL Guests
Michael Apted
director
Annette Bening
Actor
Richard Crudo
Armie Hammer
Cinematographer ACTOR
HAWK KOCH
PRODUCER
Shawn Levy
Director
Tom Nunan
Producer
MIKE WERB
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 throughout 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.
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A Message from
MYRL SCHREIBMAN
Producer, Festival of New Creative Work 2011
W EL CO ME 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 profession. 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 thinking 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 Akira Kurosawa, “means to search, to find and look at life’s realities. To be an artist 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!
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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: Allison Anders, ’86
Alumnus of the Year
From the release of her acclaimed first feature, Border Radio (1989), co-directed with Kurt Voss,
Allison Anders has established a body of work that is innovative in style and marked by strong ensemble acting. Her films as writer-director include Gas Food Lodging (1992), Mi Vida Loca (1993), Grace
of My Heart (1996), Sugar Town (1999) and Things Behind the Sun (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 Wim Wenders on the set of Paris, Texas.
She graduated summa cum laude with the first prize in the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award and the
first-ever Nicholl Fellowship. In 1992 she was awarded the New York 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, The L Word 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
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
O P ENI NG NI G HT
OPENING
NIGHT
Heart (8:00) Directed by Erick Oh
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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; California Institute of the Arts; UC San Diego; University 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
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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.
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DESIGN
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Design Showcase West is co-hosted by…
ART DIRECTORS GUILD
SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 12:00 P.M.
James Bridges Theater, UCLA
RECENT WORK FROM THE
MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVE STUDIES PROGRAM
Out of the Archive features creative and preservation work by current students and recent graduates
of the UCLA M.A. program in Moving Image Archive Studies (MIAS). Current students will present
independent creative work and excerpts from their portfolios, representing their professional interests and
achievements in the MIAS program. Recent MIAS alumni now working as professional archivists will show
elements of their preservation work on the Hearst Metrotone News collection, one of the largest newsreel
collections in the world, which is part of the collection of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
The MIAS M.A. program at UCLA is offered jointly by the Cinema and Media Studies faculty in the
School of Theater, Film & Television and the Department of Information Studies in the Graduate School
of Education and Information Studies, in cooperation with the UCLA Film & Television Archive. This
highly selective program was the first graduate degree established in the U.S. to educate professionals
and scholars in this rapidly-expanding field. MIAS students deal with the challenges of ever-changing
technology, the complex legal and policy environment and the evolving cultural contexts and expectations surrounding moving image archiving. Students also have the opportunity to put their knowledge
into practice at over 30 industry sites and cultural institutions in the U.S. and worldwide.
ORIGINAL AND PRESERVATION WorkS
from MIAS Students and Alumni
ALEJANDRA ESPASANDE BOUZA, Allegro Non Molto (2010, 3:00)
MICHELE GEARY, His Nibs (1921, 10:00)
SHIRAZ BHATHENA, Devon (2007, 3:30)
TONY BEST, Digital Restoration Demonstration
from UCLA’s Hearst Metrotone News Collection: MIAS Class of 2010
ROGER L. BROWN, New York Street Scenes (1960, 8:30)
SADIE MENCHEN, Modern House (NY World’s Fair) (1964, 7:00)
SHIRAZ BHATHENA, New York World’s Fair (1964, 12:30)
O UT O F T HE A RC HI VE
OUT OF
THE ARCHIVE
Preservation Projects
ALICE ROYER, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (1964, 12:15)
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)
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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
Design by Adam Holmes
Called the First Lady of cartoon voices, honoree June Foray is best known as the voice of Rocky
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 grandmother 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 Academy Awards. Currently she is on the Advisory Board of
The Chuck Jones Center for Creativity. Her numerous awards and honors include a Star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame and an award created in her name by the International Animated Film
Association (ASIFA).
direc tors
Student Awards: Best in Show, Best Story, Best Animation,
Best Art Direction, Most Innovative.
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festival of animation
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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.
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 The Simpsons 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
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.
Yarn, Paper, Scissors by Rebecca Olson
Umbrella Girl by Saeko Igarashi
Film Screenings include…
Umbrella Girl (5:20) by Saeko Igarashi
Funeral (3:15) by Kat Bakonyi
The Devil's Switch (4:30) by Vivian Lee
Ninja Monkey vs Ninja Cat (4:00)
by David Yee
Jeff the Robot (1:30) by Adam Holmes
The Night Sky (7:00) by Jeffrey Fletcher
Claire and her Robot (3:24) by Alexis Block
Spring (2:00) by Wenjia Huang
Swing (4:30) by Stacy Eduarte
Be Quiet (3:00) by Heng Zhang
Rainy Man (3:50) by Sisi Feng
Of Robots And Rednecks (16:30)
by Kevin Davis
Breaking Space (2:00) by Marika Boehler
Feast for a Moment (3:30) by Jae Hyun Lee
The Last Out (2:15) by Benett Kim
A Hare Unaware (2:00) by Zach Mekelburg
Want (4:20) by Efeme Onaodowan
Yellow (1:00) by Zach Mekelburg
La Mer (3:20) by Jessica Hokanson
Dispatch (5:15) by Yinglei Yang
"You Break It, You Buy It" (1:30)
by Gina Gress
The Paradise (3:55) by Dan Zong (Jessica)
The Box (2:29) by Kartika Mediani
Chubby Mermaid (12:00) by Emezie
The Merry Wives of Wilshire (2:00)
by Ariel Goldberg
Luna (Moon) (8:47) by Raul Cardenas-Rivera
Chocolate Milk (9:00)
by Elizabeth Chincarini
The Missing Child (2:30) by Arem Kim
Blue Sky (1:30) by Po Chou Chi
Don't Fear the Sitter (5:52)
by David Johnston
Yarn, Paper, Scissors (2:20)
by Rebecca Olson
Le Chat D'Amour (2:44) by Liza Rhea
The Great AstrOh! (1:40) by Octavio Villegas
Elmer's Nest (3:45) by Jacqueline Marion
The Secret Life of Shirts (1:00) by Eric Leppo
Dispatch by Yinglei Yang
The Lighthouse by Po-Chou Chi
The Merry Wives of Wilshire by Ariel Goldberg
A ni ma tors
The Jockstrap Raiders (18:30)
by Mark Nelson
Impressions of Dulcinea (4:30)
by Sharon Burian
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MONDAY, JUNE 6, 7:30 P.M.
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
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Dear chuck Norris (half-hour comedy) by Scott Sullivan
screenwriters SHOWCASE
Presented by Armie Hammer
Special Presentation
Honoree: AARON SORKIN
CAROLINE
WILLIAMS
GODDARD
Distinguished Achievement in Screenwriting Award
Aaron Sorkin won the Academy Award® for Best Adapted Screenplay of 2010 for The Social
Network, as well as a Golden Globe, British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA),
Writers Guild Award and the USC Scripter Award. The film, directed by David Fincher, was
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
Broadway playwriting debut at the age of 28 with the military courtroom drama, A Few Good
Men. His film adaptation of A Few Good Men was nominated for four Academy Awards®,
including Best Picture. He followed this success with the screenplays for Malice, starring Alec
Baldwin and Nicole Kidman, and The American President, starring Michael Douglas and
Annette Bening. He produced and wrote the television series Sports Night for ABC for two
years, and spent four years writing and producing the critically acclaimed and multi-awardwinning NBC series The West Wing, Emmy’s Outstanding Drama Series in all four seasons.
Sorkin wrote and produced the NBC television series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and
wrote the 2007 film Charlie Wilson’s War, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Tom Hanks,
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Julia Roberts. He most recently adapted Moneyball, directed by
Bennett Miller and starring Brad Pitt, which is in post production at Sony. Sorkin is currently
developing a new series with HBO, More as This Story Develops, set behind the scenes at a
cable news show, and he has acquired the rights to The Politician, the best-selling book by
Andrew Young about the downfall of former Senator John Edwards. He will adapt the book
and produce, and will be making his directorial debut with the project.
Past Honorees:
Laeta Kalogridis* (2010); Dustin Lance Black* (2009); Eric Roth*
(2008); Daniel Pyne* (2007); Scott Kosar* (2006); Alexander Payne* And Jim Taylor (2005);
David Koepp* (2004); Darren Star* (2003); Lowell Ganz And Babaloo Mandell (2002); Robert
Towne (2001); Ernest Lehman, Madelyn Pugh Davis, Bob Carroll, Jr. (2000); Hollywood
Blacklisted Screenwriters, Kirk Douglas (1999); James Cameran And Daniel Taradash (1998);
Julius Epstein (1997) *Alumnus
LEW AND PAMELA HUNTER/
JONATHAN AND JANICE ZAKIN
CHAIR IN SCREENWRITING
S C RE E N W RI TE R S SHOW C ASE
Caroline Williams Goddard grew up in Chicago,
Portland and Southern California, where she was
a Young Conservatory Player at South Coast Rep
in Costa Mesa. As an undergraduate at USC her
first play was selected for the Heideman Award,
produced at the Humana Festival, lauded by the
New York Times and published by Samuel French.
While an MFA screenwriting candidate at UCLA,
Caroline won the Screenwriters Showcase, the
Gershenson Fellowship and the George Burns
and Gracie Allen Comedy Fellowship. After
graduating, Williams sold her first television pilot,
MissGuided, to Twentieth Century Fox and
Ashton Kutcher’s Katalyst Films.It went on to
receive critical acclaim and air on ABC with Judy
Greer and Chris Parnell. Caroline was a staff
writer on NBC’s The Office and was nominated
for a Writers Guild Award. She was also consulting producer on ABC’s Modern Family and
received a Writers Guild Award as a member of
the writing staff. She has since developed other
TV projects with Warner Bros. and JJ Abrams. In
addition to her TV work, she has done feature
work for Paramount Pictures, Lions Gate Films
and others.
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MONDAY, JUNE 6, 7:30 P.M.
SCR EEW RI T ERS S H O WC A S E
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SHOWCASE HOST MIKE WERB
SPECIAL GUEST Armie Hammer
A Los Angeles native, Mike Werb received his undergraduate
degrees from Stanford, where he majored in one thing after
another. He put his costly education to use by joining a New
Wave garage band that never left the garage. Turning to
writing, he began a burlesque climb up the well-greased
Hollywood ladder by entering the UCLA Master’s program in
screenwriting. He has since worked for every major studio.
Mike’s big break was writing the screenplay for the Jim
Carrey comedy “The Mask,” but he also embraces his other
produced credits, including “Darkman 3: Die, Darkman, Die!,
and the giant-rats-attack-a-college-campus epic Gnaw: The
Food of the Gods, Part 2. Mike co-wrote and co-produced
(with Michael Colleary) the action-thriller Face/Off, directed by John Woo and starring
John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. 21st century accomplishments (!) include being one of
six credited screenwriters on Lara Croft: Tomb Raider starring Angelina Jolie, and the
WB’s flashy flop TV series Tarzan starring Travis Fimmel’s abs. Werb and Colleary also
worked intimately with Arnold Schwarzenegger on Collateral Damage, his last major
motion picture before becoming Governor of California. Other film credits include the
well-reviewed animated hit Curious George (Universal/Imagine) and the family comedy
Firehouse Dog (New Regency/Fox). Most recently, Mike created and executive produced
Unnatural History—the first live action-adventure show for Cartoon Network and Warner
Horizon Television. The series premiered in June, 2010.
Armie Hammer is emerging as one of Hollywood’s most
promising young actors. His performance as the Winlevoss
twins in the award-winning film The Social Network garnered
him critical praise and positioned him as one of Hollywood’s
breakouts of the year. Armie was nominated “Most Promising
Performer” by the Chicago Crix, and awarded “Best Supporting
Actor” by the Toronto Film Critics Association. The film
received a SAG nomination for “Best Ensemble” as well as
“Best Picture” for Golden Globes. The Social Network was also
recognized by both the LA and the NY Film Critics’ associations,
the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the National Board of
Review and was named one of the American Film Institutes Top
10 Films of the Year. Hammer will be seen starring opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the J.
Edgar Hoover biopic, J. Edgar. Hammer will play lawyer-turned-FBI-official and Hoover’s
“lover”, Clyde Tolson. Clint Eastwood will direct from a script by Milk Oscar-winner Dustin
Lance Black. Imagine Entertainment and Malpaso Productions are co-producing for Warner
Bros. The film will be released in late 2011. This year Hammer will also star as “Prince
Alcott” in Tarsem’s Snow White, opposite Julia Roberts and Lily Collins for Relativity Media.
Hammer’s other credits include a recurring guest role on the CW’s Gossip Girl. Hammer
has been cast in the title role in TFT alum Gore Verbinski’s upcoming film The Lone Ranger,
co-starring Johnny Depp, who will play Tonto. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his
wife Elizabeth Chambers.
screenwriters SHOWCASE
Feature Screenplay Winner
Spencer Ballou
Paul Bertino
Diana Densmore
Megan Green
sballou@ucla.edu
(818) 645-5860
bertino@gmail.com
(510) 282-0989
ddensmor@mac.com
megansgreen@gmail.com
(213) 393-1831
Spencer Ballou is a first-year MFA screenwriting
student who hails from Dallas, Texas. Once
he received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering,
Spencer made the obvious transition to screenwriting. After he relocated to Los Angeles,
Spencer picked up both an M.S. in Engineering
Management, and several lunch orders while
working as a production assistant. If he’s not
writing, watching movies, watching sports, or
playing basketball, Spencer eagerly sits by the
phone, waiting for a call from an NBA team
offering him a roster spot as a reserve Power
Forward.
Paul Bertino writes features and TV. He was
born in northern California, where he was
raised by humans. Paul earned a B.A. in
Cinema from San Francisco State University.
He is finishing his 2nd year at UCLA’s MFA
Screenwriting program and has just completed
his 6th feature. Paul also has a background in
video game development and 3D computer
animation. Awards: Astana Action Film Festival
Semi-Finalist, Scriptapalooza Semi-Finalist for a
half-hour comedy pilot.
Raised in South West Michigan, Diana
Densmore, received her B.A. from the
University of Michigan, in Film & Video Studies
and Creative Writing. After a short stint in
Australia she returned to Michigan and worked
on television commercials, short films and documentaries. She also taught performance poetry and photography before moving to Japan
to teach English. She returned from Japan to
pursue a Master’s of Fine Arts in Screenwriting
at UCLA. She was the 2009 Streisand and Sony
Screenwriting Fellowship recipient, a 2010
Sloan Screenwriting Fellowship finalist and a
Four Sisters Scholarship in Screenwriting recipient in both 2009 and 2011.
Megan Green gave up a damn good job in
New York advertising to attend the UCLA MFA
program in 2008. Her mother will never forgive
her. Megan writes character-driven comedies
for film and TV. While attending UCLA, she has
worked with such illustrious screenwriters as
David Koepp, Audrey Wells and Dan Pyne. In
2010, she received the Women in Film Foundation: Eleanor Perry Writing Award.
H WETWORK INC (dark comedy)
Two suburban housewives—one desperate for
money, the other desperate for excitement—
haphazardly become contract killers. But as
business picks up, family complications arise,
and the struggle to maintain their double lives
becomes increasingly difficult.
H BAD DOGS (werewolf western)
When the sheriff of a frontier town discovers
that a gang of bloodthirsty werewolves is
responsible for his brother’s death, he must
find a way to bring them to justice before he
becomes their next meal.
H SIMONE’S MASTERPIECE (family comedy)
When Simone’s mother falls into a coma, the
twelve-year-old self-proclaimed scientist and
her two younger brothers, George and Tito,
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.
H THE FAMILY HARVEST (comic drama)
Slacker girl Darcy is shocked when her long lost
father shows up, looking for a kidney. She’s not
a donor-match, but one of her father’s illegitimate children might be, so Darcy hits the road
to meet her long lost siblings in the hopes of
saving her playboy father.
S C RE E N W RI TE R S SHOW C ASE
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Television Pilot Winner
Nicole Riegel
Tony Baker
Jeffrey King
Scott Sullivan
n.riegel@ucla.edu
(740) 288-5086
TonyContactInfo@gmail.com
(310) 980-2873
permanentking@gmail.com
(508) 265-1862
stuffforscott@hotmail.com
(310) 463-1979
Nicole Riegel writes both features and original
pilots that are valentines to the odd space that is
the Midwest. She grew up in Ohio where
she wrote and directed her first two plays for
the stage, received a B.A. in Motion Picture
History, Theory & Criticism from Wright State
University and was a Nicholl Fellowship finalist.
Prior to writing, she was a soldier in the United
States Army.
Tony is a visual and visceral storyteller riding the
line between genre and comedy. He’s got an
encyclopedic knowledge of film coupled with
a desire to write across platforms, exploring
comic books, graphic novels, television, and
feature film
Jeffrey King is a television writer and playwright
whose work has been performed at the Fringe
Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland and NYU’s
Tisch School of the Arts, as well as venues in
Boston and Los Angeles. He is the director of
Loose Elephant Theatre, a frisky performance
collective whose projects have included dousing people with paint and duct-taping actors
to telephone poles. He was runner-up in the
2010 RX Laughter Primetime Television Writing
Competition with a spec of How I Met Your
Mother, and has most recently been working
as writers’ assistant for ABC’s pilot Grace.
When it was announced that Scott Sullivan had
been voted “Most Talented” in his high school
senior class, his best friend looked at him and
in all seriousness asked, “What talent do you
have?” One could postulate that everything
Scott does in this business is just a subconscious
attempt to prove a point to Jim Sears. Scott
writes television and features. He also writes
and directs short films that sometimes win
awards at festivals and stuff.
SCR EENW RI T ERS S H O W CA S E
H TRAPPED (drama/action)
A drama of two West Virginia coal miners who
are trapped underground after a methane explosion. As the drama of the above ground love
affairs collide with the peril and secrets below
ground, the two men must stick together in
order to make it out alive.
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H STUNT COCK (1/2 hr comedy, animated)
An ex-cock fighting rooster named Stunt Cock,
has been put out to stud on a factory farm in
Arizona. Stunt tries to raise his only son, Hatch,
while dealing with the sudden arrival of Stunt’s
abusive ex fight trainer, an immigrant worker
named Domingo.
H ASHBURTON PREP (1 hr drama)
Ashburton Prep is an ensemble drama that
follows the lives of several teachers and students 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
H DEAR CHUCK NORRIS (1/2 hr comedy)
A lovable loser gets his life together with the
aid of a Chuck Norris self-help book.
TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 7:30 P.M.
The Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, 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
PR O D U C E RS MA RKET PL AC E
producers MARKETPLACE
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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 Inglourious Basterds, Pulp Fiction and Good Will
Hunting, have been honored with 29 Academy Award nominations, including three for Best Picture,
and have won 6. His film An Inconvenient Truth, which raised unprecedented awareness about climate
change, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His latest documentary, Countdown
to Zero, featuring Prime Minister Tony Blair and Presidents Musharef, Gorbachev, De Klerk and Carter,
among others, details the urgent risk posed by nuclear proliferation, terrorism, and the accidental use
of nuclear weapons. Other films include, From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), Anna and the King (1999), The
Mexican (2001), Innocent Voices (2004), and Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (1992), Jackie Brown
(1997) and Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (2004). Lawrence has also produced, Havana Nights: Dirty Dancing
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 Jason Statham and will be released worldwide later this year. Bender 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 fundraisers 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
direc tors
Berger And Ron Yerxa (2007); Cathy Schulman (2006); Mike Medavoy* (2005); Tom Cruise And Paula
Wagner, CW Productions (2004); Mark Gordon (2003) *Alumnus
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producers MARKETPLACE
VISION AWARD PRESENTED BY HAWK KOCH
PRODUCERS MARKETPLACE HOST TOM NUNAN
Hawk Koch is the Co-President of the
Producers Guild of America, a member of the Board of Governors at the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts &
Sciences and is on the Board of Directors
of the Motion Picture and Television
Fund. Koch has been producing films
for over thirty years. Among his motion
picture credits are Heaven Can Wait (for
which he won a Golden Globe), Primal
Fear, Wayne’s World, Pope of Greenwich
Village, Frequency, Fracture, The Idol
Maker and the recently released Source Code. Koch also served as
the president of Rastar Productions, Inc., where he oversaw the productions of Peggy Sue Got Married, Nothing in Common, and The
Secret of My Success, among others. At the start of his career, he
was a jack-of-all-trades serving in such capacities as dialogue coach,
second unit director and first assistant director, working alongside
Sydney Pollack, Alan Pakula, Hal Wallis, William Castle, Roman
Polanski, John Schlesinger and Paul Mazursky on such legendary
films as Chinatown, Marathon Man, Rosemary’s Baby, Bob & Carol
and Ted & Alice, The Way We Were, The Odd Couple, Barefoot in
the Park and Parallax View.
Tom Nunan has a diverse background as an executive, having operated both a national TV network and one of the largest vertically integrated television studios. He is
also an Academy Award® and Emmy® winning film and television producer. He has
been a Visiting Professor in the UCLA Producers Program for 15 years.
Nunan is best known for his work as a founder and partner at Bull’s Eye Entertainment (B.E.E.), where he has generated a television and film slate of over 50 projects.
Nunan and his partners achieved worldwide success with their Academy Award®
winning Best Picture winner Crash, and with The Illusionist, Thumbsucker and Employee of the Month. High-profile television projects have included the STARZ adaptation of Crash, the Lifetime series Angela’s Eyes and the CBS comedies All Grown Up
and The Papdits.
After establishing himself as an executive by running long-form development and
production for Jerry Weintraub, Chuck Fries and The Guber/Peters Company, Nunan began his network-programming career as the Vice President in charge of movies at ABC. Moving on to Fox, he ran the enormously successful
comedy department, spearheading such groundbreaking programs as The Ben Stiller Show, Martin, In Living Color,
Mad TV and Flying Blind. This success led to his promotion to oversee all of Fox’s primetime. As president of NBC
Studios, Nunan grew the once tiniest of vertically integrated production companies into NBC’s largest supplier of
programming, including some of network’s most cherished shows, including Will & Grace, Profiler and The Pretender. Prior to forming B.E.E., Nunan was President of The United Paramount Network (UPN) now known as The
CW, growing it from two nights of programming a week to six.
Nunan is proud of his work as Chairman of The Joyful Heart Foundation, which works to foster a community
that turns toward the issues of sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse.
producers MARKETPLACE Judges
Bonnie Arnold, Producer (How to Train Your Dragon, The Last Station, Toy Story)
Albert Berger, Producer (Little Miss Sunshine, Little Children, Cold Mountain, Bee Season)
Carl Franklin, Writer/Director (Devil in a Blue Dress, High Crimes, El Chico Blanco)
PR O D U C E RS MA RKET PL AC E
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PR ODUCE RS M A R KE T PL AC E
Marketplace finalist
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Michael Acosta
RYan Slattery
Aisha Summers
Michael.Acosta@gmail.com
(323) 825-2654
ryanslattery@post.harvard.edu
(818) 795-3456
AihsaNia@aol.com
707-280-4775
Michael Acosta is an emerging producer in film,
television, and new media. Born in El Paso,
Texas, he was inspired to make movies at a
young age by films like Raiders of the Lost Ark
and Back to the Future, and later attended
the NYU Kanbar Institute of Film & Television.
For nearly five years Acosta has worked in the
entertainment industry, including stints with
some of the world’s most creative and successful producers of content including the BBC,
ABC, and acclaimed director Richard Linklater.
He received his MFA from the prestigious UCLA
Producers Program where he continued to
develop his skills of storytelling and producing,
while becoming truly passionate about physical
production. Michael hopes to create innovative
and compelling content that excites audiences
around the world, like those that sparked his
own love of visual storytelling.
Ryan Slattery grew up in the industry as
an actor, with credits in film and television
including MGM’s Sleepover, and JAG on CBS.
He received his undergraduate degree from
Harvard University, where he studied Dramatic
Arts and Film Studies. While at Harvard, Ryan
wrote, produced, and directed At Ease, a film
about the U.S. military’s discriminatory Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell policy. The film received critical
acclaim and is now available on Amazon. At
UCLA, Ryan is part of the TV Writer/Producer
track, in which he has written several specs and
original pilots, and he intends to pursue television as his career. Most recently, he has worked
in the writers’ rooms of Brothers & Sisters and
No Ordinary Family, both for ABC, and has also
served as a consultant for Academy Award®
winning screenwriter Bobby Moresco (Crash).
Ryan particularly desires to tell stories that
advance themes of social justice and equality.
Aisha Nia Summers grew up in Northern California, surrounded by a progressive educated
Black family culture. She received her undergraduate degree from Howard University,
where she majored in journalism and minored
in theatre. When Aisha returned to California
she moved to Los Angeles and worked at a
voice over agency, a talent agency and at
Warner Bros in TV development for the past
three years. Aisha has worked on several films
and is interested in creating movies and TV
shows that portray realistic, introspective and
positive images of African Americans. Aisha
is committed to creating material for the
talented tenth.
H THE POKER KID
A luckless Vegas loser and his foul-mouthed
companion hit the jackpot when they discover
a 9 year-old poker wiz who always wins. But,
they run into problems when their harebrained
get-rich-quick scheme backfires and the two
are forced to become an unlikely pair of foster
fathers.
H BURDEN OF PROOF
Written by Academy Award®-winning writer
Bobby Moresco (Crash), this project is the gripping story of an innocent man who has spent
his life behind bars, only to be released as the
monster the system wanted him to be.
H CONFESSIONS OF A MODERN DAY DOG
Titan Brown, a Black Buppie, is a man trying to
find himself through relationships with three
unique women, only to discover that as he finds
out what is important to him, he may loose “the
One” he wants in the process.
THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 7:30 P.M.
Director’s Guild of America Theatre, 7920 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles
Honoree: Stacey Snider, Champion Spirit Award
Honoree: Lisa Cholodenko, Filmmaker of the Year
Also presented: The Panavision Award in Cinematography
Special Guests: Michael Apted, 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 evening 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 animation 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 (Sideways), Patricia
Cardoso (Real Women Have Curves), Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight), Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean),
Gil Kenan (Monster House), Justin Lin (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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MONKEY (22:17) Directed by Marie Lee
DIRECTORS SPOTLIGHT
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Presented by Shawn Levy
Honoree: STACEY SNIDER
CHAMPION SPIRIT AWARD WINNER
Stacey Snider is a partner of DreamWorks Studios with Steven Spielberg, 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 Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, and Harrison
Ford and directed by Jon Favreau, The Help, based on the New York Times best-selling book and starring
Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Octavia Spencer, Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman,
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 acclaimed features including Clint Eastwood’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 Universal Pictures, where she had remarkable 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 Brokeback Mountain 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.
direc tors
Past winner: Roger Corman (2010)
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DIRECTORS SPOTLIGHT
Presented by Michael Apted
and Special Guest Annette Bening
Presented by Suzanne Lezotte
Honoree: LISA CHOLODENKO
Special Guest Richard Crudo, ASC
FILMMAKER OF THE YEAR
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
film won Best Comedy at The Golden Globes and Cholodenko and co-writer Stuart
Blumberg also won a Spirit award for Best Original Screenplay and a Best Screenplay
nod from The New York Film Critics Circle. Cholodenko grew up in the San Fernando
Valley and began working in the film industry in the early 1990s, as an assistant
editor on Boyz n the Hood (1991) and Used People (1992). She then moved to New
York City and earned an MFA in screenwriting and directing at Columbia University
School of the Arts. After writing and directing an award-winning short film, “Dinner
Party” (1997), she made her feature debut with High Art (1998), which won the
National Society of Film Critics award for Ally Sheedy’s performance and The Waldo
Salt Screenwriting award at the Sundance Film Festival. Both High Art and her second
feature, Laurel Canyon (2002), premiered in the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors
Fortnight program. In addition to feature length film for Showtime, Cavedweller
(2004), which garnered Spirit nominations for stars Kyra Sedgewick and Aiden
Quinn, Cholodenko has directed episodes of such acclaimed series as Homicide: Life
on the Street, Six Feet Under, The L Word and Hung. She is currently developing an
adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s novel, The Abstinence Teacher, for Warner Brothers
and a new series for HBO.
Past Honorees:
Lee Daniels (2010); Gina Prince-Bythewood* (2009); Daniel
Attias* (2008); Jonathan Dayton* and Valerie Faris* (2007); Paul Schrader* (2006);
Brad Silberling* (2005); Gore Verbinski* (2004); Catherine Hardwicke* (2004);
Patricia Cardoso* (2003); Todd Holland* (2002); Penelope Spheeris* (2001);
Alexander Payne* (2000) *Alumnus
Worldwide Marketing Communications Director
Panavision
Panavision Award
in Cinematography
Recipient: Jeanne Tyson
D IR E CT O RS SPO TL I GH T
The Panavision New Filmmaker Package Grant is awarded to
a student cinematographer for outstanding work. Valued at
approximately $60,000, the grant will provide a complete
camera package to be used by the recipient for the production
of their next project. The grant winner is selected by a vote of
student peers who have reviewed all films submitted to the
UCLA Festival of New Creative Work.
Jeanne Tyson is a cinematographer who is originally from
Mobile, Alabama. She will be graduating from UCLA’s MFA
program for Film Production and Cinematography in June.
Jeanne completed production with Director Jon Crawford
in Arkansas on Foot Soldier in 2010. In 2011 Jeanne has
completed production on an independent feature film directed
by Elias Mael, Against the Grain, as well as a UCLA graduate
thesis project directed by Keith Hedlund, Some Money.
She has several projects for the remainder of the year in preproduction including a series pilot for a writer and performer
from The Second City in Chicago. In addition to shooting, she
has started her teaching career at UCLA Extension, where she
is teaching a course titled The Craft of the Cinematographer.
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
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 Focus Features’ critical and
commercial sensation The Kids Are All Right, in which she played opposite Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo.
Her role as Nic earned her a Golden Globe® and New York Film Critics Circle award, and Oscar®, Screen
Actors Guild, Critics Choice, and Independent Spirit nominations in the “Best Actress” category. In 2010,
Annette also starred in Sony Pictures 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 Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes 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 Sony Pictures Classics, 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 Ben Kingsley 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 Neil Jordan’s In Dreams, and The
Siege, opposite Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis.
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 Rob Reiner’s The American President, opposite Michael Douglas. Bening also had supporting
roles in Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks!, and in Sir Ian McKellen’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III.
Her other film credits include: Love Affair with Warren Beatty; Barry Levinson’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 Anton Chekhov play The Cherry Orchard at Los Angeles’ Mark Taper
Forum in 2006, and Alan Bennett’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 film director, Mr. Apted joined the
DGA in 1978, was elected to the Western Directors Council in 1997
and became the Fifth Vice President of the National Board in 2002. A
filmmaker who has enjoyed success in three distinct filmmaking arenas,
the independent film, the documentary, and the major studio feature,
Mr. Apted has served on the DGA Independent Directors Committee
since its inception and served as its chairperson until he was elected
President at the DGA biennial convention in June 2003. He served
three terms as President of the Guild, which he concluded in July 2009.
Since the 1960s, Mr. Apted has helmed an extensive list of feature
films and documentaries. His feature films include the recent Amazing
Grace for Walden Media, as well as Gorillas in the Mist, Coalminer’s
Daughter, The World is Not Enough, Gorky Park, Thunderheart, Nell, Enigma, and Enough. His
most recent film, the third installment of C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the
Dawn Treader for Walden Media and Twentieth Century Fox was released in December 2010.
Mr. Apted’s documentary credits include Incident at Oglala, Bring on the Night, Moving the
Mountain, Me and Isaac Newton and the recent Power of the Game. But among Mr. Apted’s most
widely recognized documentary directorial achievements are his internationally acclaimed, multiaward 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.
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.
Mr. Apted was born in England in 1941 and studied law and history at Cambridge University.
He has received numerous awards and nominations for his extensive body of work, including
a Grammy, a British Academy Award, a DGA Award and the International Documentary
Association’s highest honor, the IDA Career Achievement Award. By the order of Queen Elizabeth
II, Mr. Apted was recently made a Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George for
his work in the film and television industries.
Shawn Levy is one of the most commercially successful film directors of
the past decade. To date, his films have grossed over 1.6 billion dollars
worldwide. Currently, Levy is finishing up post-production on the futuristic
boxing drama, Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman. Also rolling out this fall is
the Levy-produced ABC sitcom, Last Days of Man, starring Tim Allen.
In 2010, Levy directed and produced Date Night, starring Steve Carell
and Tina Fey, which grossed over $150 million worldwide. Levy’s also
produced the hit comedy What Happens in Vegas, starring Cameron Diaz
and Aston Kutcher, which earned over $200 million. Levy both produced
and directed the blockbuster Night at the Museum franchise, starring
Ben Stiller. To date, the franchise has netted more than a billion dollars in
worldwide box office. Previously, Levy directed the hit 2006 comedy The
Pink Panther and the smash hit Cheaper by The Dozen, both starring Steve Martin. The latter grossed
more than $200 million worldwide.
Levy graduated at the age of 20 from the Drama Department of Yale University. He later studied
film in the Masters Film Production Program at USC where he produced and directed the short film
Broken Record, which won the Gold Plaque at the Chicago Film Festival and was selected to screen at
the Director’s Guild of America.
SPECIAL GUEST Richard Crudo, ASC, 2011 Kodak
Cinematographer-in-Residence at UCLA
direc t ors SPO TL I GH T
Richard Crudo, ASC, was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and
studied at St. Johns University and in the Film Arts program at Columbia
University. He began his career in the 1980s as an assistant cameraman
to Gordon Willis, Michael Chapman and Steadicam operators Larry
McConkey and Ted Churchill.and became a cinematographer in 1991. His
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.
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SPOTLIGHT WINNER
BLUE RIBBON PANEL (L to R): Faculty member Nancy Richardson; panelists Marie Cantin, Patricia
Cardoso, Cassidy Lange, Julie Anne Robinson, Mike Miner, David Gayle and Cotty Chub; faculty
member Barbara Boyle.
BLUE RIBBON PANEL OF JUDGES *Alumnus
Cassidy Lange, Vice President Development MGM
Marie Cantin, Producer (Days Of Wrath, Welcome To The Jungle, A Night At The Roxbury)
Michael Miner, Writer-Director (Robocop, Deadly Weapon)
Po-Chou Chi
VANESSA KNUTSEN
mmangoning@yahoo.com.tw
(310) 880-8257
vknutsen79@gmail.com
(310) 467-9995
Po Chou Chi, was born and grew up in Taiwan.
He majored in oil painting when he studied in
college earning his first Masters in Applied Arts.
He then started to create animation films. In
2006, his first 3D animation film, The Drawer
of Memory received many awards and was
screened in many different countries, including
Germany, Japan, China, United States, Korea,
and France. That led Po Chou Chi to being
determined to be an animation director. He went
to UCLA in 2009 to study for his second MFA
and is still working hard to achieve that goal. The
Lighthouse is his second independent animation
film, and the story idea is based upon his own
experience when he came to UCLA to search for
his dream. Just a few months ago he become
a father, and coming to UCLA and becoming a
father was a life transition. This encouraged him
to do a project which focuses on story telling and
touches his audience in some way.
Vanessa Knutsen earned her Directing MFA
from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and
Television. While at UCLA, Vanessa directed
four short films The Deep End, About A Girl,
The Weekend, and her thesis film The Promised Land. Born in Israel and raised in both
Tel-Aviv and New York, Vanessa served in the
Israeli Army and attended Yale University for
her undergraduate studies. She has worked in
both the film and television industries; having
interned at GENART and Scott Rudin Productions and has worked at the independent
production company Greenestreet Films and on
the Bad Robot/ABC TV show What About Brian.
Vanessa is currently developing her thesis into a
feature and polishing her biopic Mad Madalyn.
Julie Ann Robinson, Director (Big Love, The Last Song)
Cotty Chubb, Producer (Appaloosa, Believe In Me, To Sleep With Anger, Eve’s Bayou)
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Patricia Cardoso, Director (Real Women Have Curves) *
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David Gale, Executive Vice President, MTV Cross Media
SPOTLIGHT WINNER
H THE Lighthouse (7:30)
The Lighthouse is a film related to the director’s
own experience. The story is about parents support their children to make dreams come true.
No matter what happened, parents will be always
waiting for their children, just like the lighthouse
forever lighting for the boats.
H The Promised Land (15:00)
Mary, an illegal foreign worker living in Israel
under strict deportation laws is faced with the
most painful and difficult decision of her life.
SPOTLIGHT WINNER
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Marie Lee
Mark Lester
Lou Nakasako
Mark Nelson
marie.lee@gmail.com
(310) 850-1230
marklesterfilm@gmail.com
(714) 277-8485
lnakosako@gmail
(415) 533-0948
animationmark@gmail.com
(323) 854-7849
Marie Lee has wanted to make films since she
was five years old and has her kindergarten
yearbook to prove it. A New York native, she
studied French and English at Tufts University
and recently completed her MFA in Film Production/Directing at UCLA. Marie has interned with
Maysie Hoy, A.C.E. on Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad
All By Myself, and at Pixar Animation Studios on
Cars 2. Her thesis film, Monkey, is the recipient
of the Edie and Lew Wasserman Fellowship and
the Frank Gaeta Sound Design Grant. The 2011
UCLA Directors Spotlight marks its first official
screening. Marie currently lives in Los Angeles
and works as a freelance editor for Hulu.com.
I’m a 4th year director in the undergraduate
program and Orange Drive is my thesis film. Here
at UCLA, I’ve had the opportunity to make PSAs,
music videos, action films, and comedy shorts. I
work closely with the Wait List, a comedy group
established at UCLA, and have produced short
films for the Laugh Factory and MTV. Now that
I am leaving the university, I hope to continue
working on comedy films with MTV as well as
creating music videos for independent bands.
Lou Nakasako was first exposed to the world of
filmmaking in high school at a youth summer
program in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. The program encouraged students to
produce work based on their own experiences,
and opened up his eyes to the possibilities of
personal storytelling. At City College of San
Francisco, he made a film about the lack of Asian
American male characters in Hollywood, Batman
Not Chinese, which went on to win “The One to
Watch For” award at the New York International
Asian American Film Festival. He has interned
at Michael DeLuca Productions, and is currently
interning at Rick and Julie Yorn’s production
company. Brothers is Lou’s undergraduate thesis
film at UCLA’s Film and Television Department.
Mark Nelson is a visual-effects artist and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. His films have been
shown in many festivals, including Animex
Festival of Animation, Seoul International Film
Festival, and Nicktoons Film Festival. Mark has
also been working in the animation and visual
effects industry for several years. He has worked
on such films as 9 (2009), Star Trek (2009), and
Iron Man 2 (2010). The Jockstrap Raiders is his
thesis, and final film, at UCLA.
H Monkey (22:17)
Fourteen year-old Jamie’s world is turned
upside down after she finds a suspicious looking business card in her father’s wallet.
H ORANGE DRIVE (10:46) Shotgun.
H The Jockstrap Raiders (18:30)
Set in world war one, an unlikely group of misfits
from Leeds England, must save the world.
H Brothers (11:24)
Two brothers—one good, the other bad—but
after spending one long night together, they
learn life is not always that simple
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Richard Parkin
Camilo Salazar PriNce
Julio Ramos
parkin.r@gmail.com
(951) 529-5994
salazarprince@gmail.com
(323) 889-9552
andinofilms@gmail.com
(708) 359-9407
Richard Parkin is a Los Angeles based filmmaker
and writer. In 2005, he graduated with honors
from the University of California, Berkeley and
was the 2004–2005 recipient of the Roselyn
Schneider Eisner Prize; UC Berkeley’s highest
recognition in Film/Video arts. Currently,
Richard is completing an MFA in Film Directing
at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television where he has received the 2008 Graduate
Opportunity Scholarship, 2009 Motion Picture
Association of America Award, and the 2010
Army Archerd Fellowship. He is preparing his
thesis film with support from the Joseph W.
Drown Award for Motion Picture Production
and the Edie and Lew Wasserman Film Production Fellowship. For more information visit
Richard’s web site: www.richard-parkin.com
Camilo Salazar Prince is a plagiarist with
sporadic mundane philosophical insights into
the very essence of boredom, lowbrow humor
and the evolutionary but nonsensical urge to
mate. In his brief but ever-expanding time on
this planet he has successfully run an illegal
sandwich cartel in Colombia, escaped from
a fake kidnapping, and fought off gangster
sea urchin divers and a rebellious baby pig in
Tijuana. He also graduated from UC Berkley
with high honors in scholarship with a degree
in philosophy, and is currently an MFA Directing
candidate at UCLA. He has published articles
on Heidegger’s notion of temporality, Terrance
Malick’s Thin Red Line and the phenomenological aspects of film. His films have screened
in festivals all over the world and have received
numerous awards in the past including The
Judith Lee Stronach Grant and The Eisner award
in Film to name a few. Leave No Cloud Behind,
a short film he co-wrote with Pablo Gonzalez,
was recently acquired by Canal + to air on
French television. He is currently working on
completing his Tres Tristes Tigres Trilogy, of
which Pullover is the second installment.
A native of Peru, Julio O. Ramos, left his journalist career at the San Martin de Porres University to come the United States and become a
filmmaker. He attended Columbia College of
Chicago where he won the first place in the
CCC Student Latino film festival two consecutive years with his films, Forgiven and NoOne.
Julio now pursues his MFA at the prestigious
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. His first year film, El Bolerito (The Shoe
Shiner), has recently won the Jury Prize in the
Latino student section at the Directors Guild of
America (DGA) annual awards. ¡Una Carrerita,
Doctor! (A Doctor’s Job), is Julio’s second year
project as a UCLA Graduate Student, but it is
the very first narrative project that he directed
in his beloved Peru. The success of this film has
made him certain that he wants to keep making
movies in Peru, and not only is he scheduled to
shoot his thesis film in Lima in early August, but
he is also developing his first feature film which
he hopes to shoot in 2012.
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H Contra El Mar (19:00)
Despite his wife’s disapproval, Hector bides
his time as a deep-sea diver to provide for his
family and to save for his own fishing boat.
But after an accident at sea, Hector is forced
to confront the deadly nature of his profession
and the responsibilities to his family.
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H Pullover (16:53)
Francis is stuck inside his sweater.
H Una Carrerita Doctor! (10:20)
A doctor, forced by circumstance to also drive a
cab, finds himself challenged by his latest fare.
Master of Fine Arts
Acting Class of 2011
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
showing promise, talent and dedication for
the work. The program is full-time and the
students are fully committed to all classes,
workshops and performance projects.
The program is rigorous, intensive and
demanding. Consistent progress and achievement are required of our students, whose
principle aim is to become professional
actors. The aim of the program is to explore
their use of self, their imagination, body and
voice and to develop their skills in reading
and responding to text—which is why both
text analysis and theatre history are required
components of the training. The overall
design is based on how the actor acquires a
process, or a way of working. And of course
this is largely personal: each actor takes what
he or she can.
The essential spirit of the UCLA acting
program is based on eclecticism, various
points of view and multiplicity of experience.
We do not profess to be disciples of any one
method or system of acting. Each actor learns
how to become their own best teacher, a skill
that will become increasingly valuable as their
career evolves.
Vikas Adam
Jane Bacon
Sam Bianchini
Terrence Colby Clemons
(972) 333-3868
vikas.adam@yahoo.com
(845) 313-7479
Hijanealice@yahoo.com
(610) 585-4461
sfbianchini@yahoo.com
(404) 246-7349
tcc04@msn.com
Vikas Adam received his MFA in Acting from
UCLA and his BFA in Acting/Directing from
Syracuse University. A versatile actor whose
work runs the gamut from indie films to web
series to stage, some of his favorite camera and
stage credits include playing Ahmed in Pink
on hulu.com, Rob in The Fourth Wall, Johnnie
in Hollywood NOS, Dead Boy 3 in Forgotten
World, and Alceste in The Misanthrope. Commercial work includes Sprite and Yahtzee. Vikas
is also noted for his skills as a director, writer,
teacher, non-profit arts administrator, and
social worker.
Jane hails from Upstate New York where she
received her BFA in Music Theatre from the
University at Buffalo. From there she moved to
NYC, performing on many off-off Broadway
stages, including the American Theatre of
Actors. Her portrayal of Phoebe in As You Like
It (at ATA) won her the Jean Dalrymple Award
for Best Supporting Actress. Jane is very proud
to be a graduate of the prestigious UCLA MFA
acting program. Her work as Varya in Mel Shapiro’s The Cherry Orchard is amongst her favorite
stage experiences. Jane hopes to get more
involved in television and film now that she has
made Los Angeles her home.
Sam Bianchini is an actress/creator/marathon
runner who received her BFA from Roosevelt
University in Chicago and her MFA at UCLA. A
theatre enthusiast to the core, she worked with
many companies in her short time in Chicago,
receiving Critic’s Choice for a small space, big
heart show called The Nebraska Project. She
worked in LA with upcoming theatre director
Jeremy Aluma, whom she is proud to call friend
and collaborator. Upon graduation, she made
her homebase back in the Chicago theatre
scene, where she is co-artistic director of the
new company, The Commune. You can find her
running on the lakefront path or sipping coffee
at Intelligentsia in the wee hours of the morning.
Terrence Colby Clemons is originally from Atlanta, Georgia. He received his BA in Theatre from
Morehouse College and an MFA in Acting from
UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film, and Television.
Recent Los Angeles stage credits include Bonded
(Jon Lawrence Rivera, Ovation Recommended),
Forgotten World (Dir. Shirley Jo Finney), the title
role in Hamlet (LATC), and the US Premiere of
Three Sisters After Chekhov (Dir. Gregg Daniel).
Terrence was nominated for a Kennedy Center
Ryan Award for his portrayal of Lady in House
Of Dinah and was recently a recipient of the
Rod Steiger Award for Excellence in Acting. In
addition to theatre, Terrence has also graced the
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
sandrasuesmith@gmail.com
(571) 246-3835
JacksonMThompson@gmail.com
(818) 205-7943
jhtower@ymail.com
(203) 314-4925
cmwright820@gmail.com
Sandra Smith is a recent graduate of the MFA
Acting program at UCLA, where she received
the Sony/Streisand Excellence in ActingScholarship and the Laura Pels Fellowship in Acting.
Sandra is a singer/dancer as well as an actress.
She has been cast in the leads in over a dozen
plays, including two musicals. In 2010, Sandra
originated the role of Moll in Into You, a play
written by Pulitzer prize nominee, Lee Blessing.
Sandra was also a lead in the musical, Is There
Life After High School? at the Los Angeles
Theatre Center (LATC), and, in 2011, a lead in
Forgotten World, directed by Award Winning
theatre director, Shirley Jo Finney. Sandra can
be seen in the two woman play, Dolores, this
June and is scheduled to begin shooting the
Web Series, How Do You Want It?
Jackson Thompson received a Bachelor of
Science Degree from James Madison University
in Theatre before getting an MFA in acting
from UCLA. He made his professional theatre
debut playing D’Artagnan in Theatricum
Botanicum’s The Three Musketeers, and has
starred in several university productions, most
notably playing Hamlet in UCLA’s production
of the Shakespearean classic. He would like to
thank his friends and family for their wonderful
continued support.
Joe Tower is a performer from Chicago where
he received his BA in creative writing from
Columbia College, where he also taught. He recently completed his MFA in acting from UCLA.
He has trained theatrically at the British American Drama Academy and The Guthrie Theatre
in both classical and contemporary methods.
Currently he is associated with VS. Theatre and
Ark Theatre Company.
Carolyn hails from Upstate New York and has
performed both on stage and on screen in New
York, Chicago and Los Angeles. She recently
completed her MFA in Acting at UCLA, where
she received the 2010 George Burns and Gracie
Allen Fellowship in Comedy. This year, Carolyn
joined SAG and will be showing off her gymnastics and capoera skills in the upcoming web
series The Trainee, directed by Miguel Alvarez.
Carolyn also holds an MA in Educational Theater
from NYU and a BA in Theater Studies from
Yale. She is a member of Off the Grid Improv
and The Ark Theatre Company, and she is a
Teaching Artist with Will Geer’s Theatricum
Botanicum. For more information: www.carolynmariewright.com
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PLAYWRIGHT
PLAYWRIGHT
CRaig Jesson
Ayla Harrison
Alexander Maggio
craigjessen@gmail.com
aylaharrison@gmail.com
alexandermaggio@gmail.com
Craig Jessen is a director, playwright, and actor.
He earned a BFA in Performance at Southern
Oregon University in 2005, and an MFA in Playwriting at UCLA in 2010. Some of his directing
credits include N. Richard Nash’s Echoes, Lee
Blessing’s Two Rooms, Lawrence and Lee’s The
Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, and most recently
Romeo and Juliet. As a playwright, some of his
produced work includes Pylon, Alice Through
the Looking Glass and Chasm. His short plays
Fear of Zombies and Time Traveler’s Remorse
have been recently performed in New York,
Chicago, and Seattle. Acting credits include
Sylvestre in Scapin, Artie in The House of Blue
Leaves, and George in Of Mice and Men.
Ayla Harrison’s works include: Swell Season
(LATC), Into The Wild Blue (Francis Ford
Coppola New Play Festival), My ‘Gina (La
MaMa–NY), Spanky & Spry (Counting Squares
Theatre Co–NY), Buck Fuddies (Piano Fight
Productions–LA), Darkroom (Tennessee
Women’s Theatre Project), and The Progeny
(Orlando Shakespeare Festival). Ayla is the
recipient of the 2006 Kennedy Center Directing
Award for Best New Work, 2009 Army Archerd
Fellowship in Theatre, Film & Television Writing,
2010 Fred J Thorp Fellowship in Playwriting and
the Marianne Murphy Women and Philanthropy
Playwriting Award in both 2009 and 2010. She
has helped develop plays at Woolly Mammoth
Theatre Co in DC and worked alongside Tony
Award nominated playwright Neil LaBute at The
Geffen. Ayla is currently developing a television pilot with Davis Entertainment. She holds
an MFA in Playwriting from UCLA and a BFA in
Acting from the University of Central Florida.
She is repped by Madhouse Entertainment.
Alexander Maggio is a Los Angeles–based
playwright and recent graduate of UCLA’s
School of Theater, Film and Television. His MFA
thesis play, Lost Cause, is a 2011 Kendeda prize
runner-up and an O’Neill Semifinalist. His first
play, Ice Core, received a staged reading at
the Yale Club of New York City and as part of
the Marianne Murphy Women & Philanthropy
Award Series in Los Angeles. His one-act play
White Kisses was featured in the 2009 Francis
Ford Coppola One-Act Festival at UCLA, where
he was also a 2009 recipient of the George
Burns and Gracie Allen Scholarship and Fellowship in Comedy Award and the 2010 Richard
E. Eshleman Playwriting Award. His second
full-length play, Touchdown Jesus, a Princess
Grace Semifinalist, has received staged readings
with the Yale Cabaret in Hollywood and UCLA.
His ten-minute play, Hero’s Luck, was featured
in the 2010 Theater Masters National MFA
Playwrights Take 10 festival in Aspen, CO and
later showcased in New York City. Another tenminute play, Waiting Gate, was performed at
the Santa Cruz Actors’ Theatre Best of the Rest
Festival. In fiction, his short story “The Barnacle
Climber” placed second in the Coffee House
Dame Throckmorton Writing Contest. Alex
received his B.A. from Yale University, where he
studied playwriting under Sarah Treem.
Playwrights
STAGE Directors
COSTUME Designers
STAGE Director
Conor Hanratty
conorhanratty@gmail.com
Originally from Dublin, Ireland, Conor studied
Drama and Latin at Trinity College, Dublin
before receiving an MA in Greek Theatre Performance at Royal Holloway, University of London.
He worked in Tokyo, Japan for two years, on
a scholarship from the Japanese government,
as an intern with director Yukio Ninagawa.
He returned to Ireland in 2006 to participate
in Rough Magic Theatre Company’s SEEDS III
artist development programme, which led to
opportunities in Berlin, Germany and Budapest,
Hungary, and an invitation to the prestigious
Directors’ Course at the National Theatre Studio
in London. The programme ended with his
acclaimed production of Camus’ Caligula at
the Fringe Festival in 2007, later revived for the
Dublin International Theatre Festival in 2008.
Conor is also a long-term associate of the Intensive Summer Course on Ancient Greek Drama
organized in Epidaurus, Greece under the auspices of the Hellenic Festival and the University
of Athens, and he recently finished co-editing a
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
opera A Hand of Bridge, presented at Schoenberg Hall in June 2010.
STAGE Director
Monica Payne
monicaannpayne@gmail.com
Costume Designer
Costume Designer
LAURA WONG
Daniella Yorah Cartun
Caitlin Talmage
apiroo@msn.com
cartund@gmail.com
caitlin.talmage@gmail.com
Laura Wong is a Costume Designer who will be
graduating this June with her MFA from UCLA.
She is passionate about the study of non-Western dress, and would love to work on projects
that give voice to the underrepresented. Laura
specializes in Japanese costume and textiles and
has studied the subject extensively in Japan and
in the United States. Her undergraduate studies
culminated in her honors thesis, which was a in
a gallery show titled “Fringe Cultures.” Laura
has also completed several internships in both
theater and film. She worked as both a stitcher
and as an Assistant Designer while interning
in the costume shop at the Seattle Repertory
Theatre, building costumes for the neighboring
INTIMAN Theater during their Tony Awardwinning Summer 2006 season. In 2008 and
2009, Laura interned with Bobi Garland, Head
of the Research Library at Western Costume in
Burbank, CA. After graduation, she intends to
pursue design opportunities for theater, film,
and television.
Daniella Yorah Cartun is a designer, vocalist,
and actress from Stanford, CA. Having sewn all
her life, she was introduced into the world of
costuming at Lawrence University. Her love of
art history and theater created a clear niche for
her in the design world. She is a master seamstress as well as designer, and she uses art and
art history to inspire her creativity. The culmination of her undergraduate degree in Theater
and Art History was to co-produce, costume
design and star as Sally Bowles in the Lawrence
University 2008 production of Ebb and Kander’s
Cabaret. She returned to California to further
her education and receive an MFA in Costume
Design from UCLA’s School of Theater Film
and Television. Daniella passionately designs
each production with deep character analysis,
bringing to life the people written on the page.
Her passion is to tell stories through theater and
music to enlighten the audience.
Caitlin Talmage is an MFA candidate for
Costume Design at UCLA. Her theatrical credits
include Arlecchino’s Dream, Assassins, and
Temp Odyssey. She has decided to pursue
costume design for film, and has worked as a
costumer on Discovery Channel gritty historical
reenactments and sunny films such as The Donner Party. She has also worked on lighter fare,
assisting on television shows 90201 and Do Not
Disturb, and currently is working on a new period television show The Magic City. Recently she
has had the opportunity to work with LACMA
on their upcoming show Fashioning Fashion.
Her passion lies in exploring the cultural analysis
of clothing and its relationship to the zeitgeist.
There is a reason why that Baroque ruff was so
large, after all.
P LA Y W RI GH T S , S TA GE D I RE C T O RS , CO S TUM E DE SIG NE RS
Monica Payne moved to Los Angeles four years
ago, having spent most of her career in Chicago.
While in the MFA Directing program, she directed Natural Affection by William Inge, Elektra
by Euripides, and Gross Sales by Erica Jones. She
also wrote and directed an adaptation of Innocent Erendira by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as well
as a short film called Dad Dreaming. In Chicago,
she directed two new plays by Adam Galassi and
Justin O’Connor as well as Savage Love by Sam
Shepard, all for the Artistic Home. She directed a
week of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Plays and Erasing
the Distance for the Chicago Festival of Disability
Arts and Culture. As an actress, her Chicago
credits include work with the critically acclaimed
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 Chicago, 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 students have gone on to work in television, film,
and regional theatre.
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Film and Television
Teri Schwartz, Dean
Edit Villareal, Associate Dean
Rich Rose, Associate Dean
Susan Marcano, Assistant Dean
Department of Film, Television
and Digital Media
Barbara Boyle, Chair
Nick BrownE, Vice Chair CMS
Tom Denove, Vice Chair, Production
William McDonald, Vice Chair, Undergraduate
DeniSe Mann, Producers Program Area Head
CELIA MERCER, Animation Program Area Head
RICHARD WALTER, Screenwriting Program
Co-Area Head
Hal Ackerman, Screenwriting Program Co-Area Head
Leah A. LievrouW, MIAS Area Head,
Dept. of Informational Studies
Department of Theater
Michael HacketT, Chair
Patricia Harter, Vice Chair Curriculum
Rich Rose, Vice Chair Undergraduate
Carol Sorgenfrei, Vice Chair Graduate
Deborah Nadoolman Landis, Director,
David C. Copley Center for Costume Design
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Peter Heller, Executive Director of
Development and Industry Relations
Tamara Turoff Keough, Senior Director
of Development
Brian Rosenberg, Associate Director of Major Gifts
Chria Hazlitt, Associate Director of
Annual Fund
Shannon Regan, Development Coordinator
Deidre Crawford, Development Coordinator
Erica Eggers, Development Assistant
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MYRL SCHREIBMAN, Producer
Assistants to the Producer: Ryan Moody, Patrick Brooks
Coordinator: Natasha Blake
Student Producers
Production Directing Program: Alethea Avramis, Graduate; Brianna Quick, Undergraduate
Committee: Nicole Gordon, Elyse Hollander, Eric Martin, Susana Casares, Vanita Shastry.
Animation Program: Adam Holmes, Alexis Block, Debra Chow
Committee: Kartika Mediani, Saeko Igarashi
Moving Image Archive Studies: Amanda Smith, Charles Rogers
Producing Program: Alexandra Rosenberg, Mike Stein, Nicole Stier, Logan Grover, David Tarr
Screenwriting Program: Clay Stearns, Stuart Fail, Tony Baker, Amy Aniobi, Jo Green.
Festival Program
Cover Design and Festival Logo: Ian Roth
Program Design: Beth Escott Newcomer
David Chute, Senior Writer
Photographer: Don Liebig
Cinematographer: Leigh Underwood
Festival Web Site
Design: Patrick Brooks, Ryan Moody
Web Master: Angela McGregor
Consultant: Tito Deveyra
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Juan Tallo, Director of Videography
Nolwen Cifuentes, Videographer
Robyn Charles, Videographer
Albert Malvaez, Equipment
Mique Hwang, Grip & Electric
Public Relations: Lippon Group
Festival Publicist: Elizabeth Wolfe
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Allison Ivers
Megan Levy
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Esther Shubianski, Barrak Sitty
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