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
Tazmanian Devil, the debut feature-length film written and directed by Solomon Onita Jr. MFA ’16, won the inaugural John Singleton Director Award for Best First Feature at the 2020 American … Read more
With the first day of classes, we wanted to celebrate the people who make it all possible–SFTV’s incredible faculty! This year, we are welcoming top industry talent as new full-time … Read more
The film Incognito by Jiaxuan “Jacky” Song ’19 (Film and TV Production) is a finalist for a 2020 Student Academy Award (SAA). Set in mid-1990s Los Angeles, Incognito tells the … Read more
LMU School of Film and Television (SFTV) was ranked 7th by The Hollywood Reporter (THR) in its annual listing of the top 25 film schools in the country. It’s the … Read more
Television’s annual Emmy Awards are coming up on Sunday, September 20, and like every year, we’ve scoured the nominee list for industry talent who learned their craft with us here … Read more
Seasoned showrunner and screenwriter John Strauss brings over 30 years of experience in film and television to SFTV. He has been an executive producer/showrunner on over ten different television series, … Read more
Last week, screenwriter and director Camille Tucker (MFA ’18), co-writer of the hit Lifetime biopic The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel, shared insights from her over 15 years of … Read more
Solomon Onita Jr. MFA ’16 and assistant professor Leena Pendharkar were two of the 12 directors selected by Warner Bros Television Group earlier this week for their prestigious 2020 Warner … 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