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
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
In a recent two-part series of articles for Written By, the Writers Guild of America West‘s magazine, SFTV clinical associate professor of screenwriting Paul Chitlik highlighted the persistent challenges faced … Read more
Michelle Amor Gillie, a screenwriting professor at LMU School of Film at Television and co-chair of the Writers Guild of America West‘s Committee of Black Writers, was the lead author … Read more
It was a lack of good acting roles that inspired film and TV production professor Skinner Myers to begin writing films with characters he wanted to play. Another influence: Seeing … Read more
Daniel McDonald MFA ’18 pulls no punches when asked how he rose from an entry-level job on a docuseries to directing and producing episodes and qualifying to join the Directors … Read more
Wake Up, a documentary about suicide prevention directed by Nate Townsend ’15 and produced by Chelsea Bo ’14 and Sean Drummond ’14, will have its premiere at YouTube’s WE ARE … Read more
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