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
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
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
Tabatha Laanui ’15 has been chosen to receive the Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television (LMU SFTV) Fellowship as part of Film Independent’s signature diversity mentorship program, Project … Read more
Ben Gross MFA ’18 (Writing for the Screen) was chosen this week for the Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television (SFTV) Screenwriting Fellowship as part of Film Independent’s … Read more
Tasha Henderson (MFA ’15, Writing for the Screen), is one of 13 writers who was accepted into Walt Disney Television’s 2020 Writing Program on February 3. The Walt Disney Television … Read more
Cinematographer / DP Shana Hagan ’89 has had a busy awards season. Fresh off the heels of last week’s Sundance Film Festival, where two projects she filmed had their premieres, … 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
Animation major Emily Rawson won the individual Grand Prize Undergraduate Research Library Award in May 2019 for her project “The Golem: An Exploration of Lotte Reiniger and German Expressionism,” which included … Read more