Fusion Arts Program Set To Roll

On July 7th

On Monday, July 7, 15 international undergraduate university students from
five countries, and five American students will converge on USC for the
start of a five-week program in writing, production and film studies
workshops, a bus tour up the California coast to San Francisco, and then
ending in Washington, DC on August 15. 

Sponsored by the Bureau of Cultural
and Educational Affairs of the U.S. State Department, the five countries
represented are Egypt, France, Lebanon, Philippines and Mexico.  The
American students come from the University of Oklahoma, Wake Forest, Elon
University and the University of California, Berkeley. 

The Monday-Friday classes will include the fundamentals of writing a screenplay
with associate professor Pamela Douglas and senior lecturer Paul Wolff;  elements of
direction, staging and production with Production professor Jeremy Kagan,
and six sessions on the American film with LA Weekly film critic Ella
Taylor. 

In addition, studio tours and visits to television sets are being
organized, and several special evening screenings are being scheduled with
at least four screenings already confirmed.  The students are also being
invited to special seminars scheduled by the Summer Program and the
Directors Guild has invited them to their annual Digital Day in late July.


For the educational tour to San Francisco and Washington, they will be
accompanied by four escorts, including Alex Ago and graduate Production
students Taylor Nygaard (she did it last summer) and Coyote Marino, and
Critical Studies Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Rosales.

Associated Person:

Paul Wolff Jeremy Kagan Pamela Douglas