During the summer of 2020, SFTV’s screenwriting faculty hosted a series of ”Meet Your Professor” Zoom workshops on writing for film and TV, with topics spanning the gamut from crafting … Read more
As happened at every film school across the country in spring 2020, when Covid-19 forced widespread shutdowns of campuses, SFTV shifted to teaching all its classes remotely partway through the … Read more
By the time Nicole Grimes ’21 was headed off to college, her mother, Dr. Jill Grimes, had already made several versions of “medical cheat sheets” on index cards and laminated … 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
Applications for the Emerging Talent Lab will open May 22 As many festivals are forced to go virtual and more and more opportunities for aspiring filmmakers are postponed, SFTV is … 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
Jacob Cornblatt ’20 has kept plenty busy since he arrived at LMU as a film and television production major a little more than three years ago. A self-described overachiever, he … Read more
To guide today’s aspiring filmmakers, LMU has been hosting Life After Film School, a four-part series showcasing the many ways to succeed in film. On February 12, 2020 in Mayer … Read more
In 2019 Mallom Liggon ’21 co-created The Minority Report, a competition that mirrors the film industry’s “Black List” for screenplays written by students of color and other underrepresented groups. It’s … Read more
On Wednesday, January 29, Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television’s four-part series SFTV in Conversation: Life After Film School began with a panel discussion about fellowships and labs. … Read more
Viviane Charlestin, a first-year graduate student in the Writing and Producing for Television program at SFTV, was named a 2020 Horizon Award winner on Sunday night, January 26, at the Sundance Film Festival … Read more