John “Jack” Bosson
John “Jack” Bosson, a lecturer in the LMU College of Communication and Fine Arts and the School of Film and Television. Jack, who was 75 years old, passed away at his home last week.
I Love Movies (2012)
I Love Movies opened SFTV’s annual student film festival, Film Outside the Frame 2012. The short film was produced by SFTV students under the direction of SFTV’s resident filmmaker, Anay Tarnekar.
Summer Creative Workshop 2012
The Summer Creative Workshop mentored promising minority high school sophomore and junior students from Los Angeles’ underserved and hard hit middle class communities. Known as Fieberg Fellows after the program’s founding donors Paul and…
Brian Helgeland
42: The True Story of an American Legend is currently in post-production and will be released on April 12, 2013. Written and directed by award-winning LMU alumnus Brian Helgeland ‘87, 42 tells the life story of Jackie Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Third-year WPTV student Toni Bakal saw the trailer and said the film looks “incredible, amazing, epic.”
Elvis Mitchell on the Perennial Appeal of James Bond
LACMA’s newest exhibition . . . Is James Bond (opened just this past weekend in the Art of the Americas Building) pays homage to the iconic opening sequences of all twenty-two James Bond films.
Creative World Awards Screenwriting Competition
The mission of Creative World Awards is to discover and advance talented screenwriters. Finalists get first looks from sought after companies in the industry such as Lionsgate/Mandate International, Inferno Entertainment, Morgan Creek and others. A grand-prize winner will receive a production award–a produced short film version of their feature script, produced in conjunction with The Moving Image Xchange. The film will premiere at the Richmond International Film Festival, giving the writer an official imdb credit.
EARLYBIRD DEADLINE: DECEMBER 7, 2012
REGULAR DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 2012
Alex Levy
RECA Alum Alex Levy ’03 was credited with creating an innovative workflow for music editing at Bad Robot Productions in a recent issue of CineMontage, the journal of the Motion Pictures Editors Guild. Levy’s credits include the feature films Super 8 and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol as well as the television series Alcatraz, Lost and Alias.
