Dear SFTV Community, I write in deeply troubled times. I want to acknowledge the grief, hurt and understandable anger erupting in the wake of the brutal killing of George Floyd, … Read more
Screenwriter and playwright Aurorae Khoo joined SFTV’s faculty a year ago and splits her time between teaching and writing for film and TV. Among her credits are Showtime’s Nurse Jackie, … Read more
For Sasha Lebedeva ’21 (Screenwriting) the sudden lockdown in response to Covid-19 became a crash course in independent filmmaking–party of one. But what started as an assignment for her Directing … Read more
Mid-May normally marks the kickoff of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in the French Riviera. Like other festivals, it has moved online this year—but last spring, Paisley Sutton ’20 had … Read more
Applications for the Emerging Talent Lab will open May 18 As many festivals are forced to go virtual and more and more opportunities for aspiring filmmakers are postponed, SFTV is … Read more
Watch with us Monday, May 4: Cupid in Quarantine & other treasures from the NFPF Since most of the world has been stuck at home, cinephiles across the internet have … Read more
To mark the final day of the spring 2020 semester, SFTV has lined up a special set of guests from our industry advisory group, the SFTV Executive Council, to share … Read more
The downside: Productions are shuttered. Classes have gone virtual. In-person events, workshops, and seminars are a thing, for now, of the past. The upside: Film and TV folks are very … Read more
Watch with us on Monday, April 27: Prime Video presents the SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection You’ve no doubt heard by now that the annual South by Southwest Conference and … Read more
Faculty member and veteran producer Maggie Murphy joined LMU in 2018 and is the mastermind behind the new creative producing specialization in SFTV’s graduate program in Film and Television Production. … Read more
“Caravan,” the installation by Mexican artist Betsabeé Romero, was a collaboration and dialogue between artists, including SFTV professors José Garcia Moreno and David Garden that explored the powerful imagery around … Read more