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Out of several thousands of applicants, MFA Writing and Producing for TV student Darnelle “DeeDee” Casimir was selected for The Academy Gold Rising Program, as an intern for Showtime. She was one of two nominated…
Pastor Ken Peters stands with a microphone at Patriot Church in Knoxville, Tennessee. “Do I have any soldiers in the house this morning?” he says. Among the congregation is a young boy wearing a “Don’t Tread on Me” shirt and a man in a red “Trump 2020” hat. People nod as Peters describes being at what he refers to as the “Capitol incident” on Jan. 6, 2021 – the day a violent mob, armed with weapons and with Bibles, forged an unprecedented attack on the U.S. Capitol..
This holiday season is nothing but magical and bright for LMU English Professor and Hollywood screenwriter Kelly Younger ’94. He wrote “Candy Cane Lane,” released on Amazon Prime Video earlier this December. The film…
Cinematographer Matthew Ballard ’17 lensed short film “Nada De Todo Esto,” which premiered at the 76th Festival de Cannes and was one of eleven short films in contention for the coveted Palme d’Or, Cannes’…
Negotiations between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) began March 20 and concluded May 1 without an agreement, resulting in the first writers’ strike…
Filmmaker Magazine: “In screenwriting, it’s imperative that you have a nimble curriculum because the landscape of the industry is constantly shifting,” says Karol Hoeffner, associate professor and chair of screenwriting in the School of…
Taylor Aguilar ’22 was a second year MFA production student who had just begun working on her thesis film when she suddenly started going blind in May of 2020. After an eight-month stint at the…
