Ainbinder, Jane 1994 MFA Production: Nail Polish, her independent feature film, has been invited to screen at the Mill Valley Film Festival and the Denver International Film Festival. Nail Polish is a bittersweet coming-of-age comic drama set in the 1980s.
Apatow, Judd 1985-1987 Filmic Writing: will write and produce Walk Hard, a comedy pitch that Columbia has acquired, with Jake Kasdan
Atchison, Doug 1988 BA Production: has signed a three-picture, first-look deal with the independent Weinstein Co. in which he will direct his next two pictures
Baker, Kelley 1980. 1982 BA Production, MFA Production: independent filmmaker, is about to go on a self-distributing tour for his lastest movie, Kicking Bird, the story of Martin "Bird" Johnson, a 17-year-old white trash high school kid who runs
Booth, Malik 2003 BA Critical Studies: and his team, Team Voltron, won Best Narrative Film at the Elevate Film Festival for their movie My Letter to Hip-Hop
Candis, Sheldon 2002 BFA Production: directs Young Cesar for CodeBlack Entertainment/Universal Home Video
Scholibo, Corey 2001 Critical Studies: has been named arts and entertainment editor at the Advocate. He was formally, a senior account executive at ID-PR
Borden, Robert 1991 MFA Writing: will team with Brian Grazer and David Nevins to develop a half-hour comedy for Imagine Television. George Lopez, of which he is executive producer, has a significant commitment from ABC.
Breece, Julian 2005 MFA Peter Stark: garnered 3rd place honors in the 2006 Slamdance Screenplay Competition for his original screenplay Ball, making him the youngest writer to receive this honor. Breece was honored in a ceremony hosted by the Writer's Guild of America, and will further be honored during the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Chapman, Dina 1992 BFA Filmic Writing: co-wrote the teen comedy The Prom for the Weinstein Company's Dimension Films. She also is currently working on the screenplay adaptation of John O'Farrell's novel The Best a Man Can Get for Little Bird Productions of London and director Peter Cattaneo. Chapman has also had her first book of humor, I Love You, Man...But Not Like That, published by Andrews-McMeel Publishing and due to stores in September 2006.
Chiarelli, Pete 1999 MFA Peter Stark: is executive producing a DreamWorks Pictures adaptation of the studio's book property Nightlife, about a female serial killer who changes identification every time she commits a murder.
Chu, Jon 2000 BA Cinema will directing the teen comedy The Prom for the Weinstein Company's Dimension Films.
Crowley, J.D. 2003 BA Critical Studies: won three local EMMY awards producing on the air promos while working at KCBS. He also works for Paramount Executive Producer Linda Bell Blue, and Mary Hart of PM Magazine
De Laurentiis, Luigi 2003 BA Production: is producing the new Filmauro feature, Christmas In New York.
Engelson, Trevor 1998 BA: of L.A.- based Underground Films signed a one-year, first-look deal with The Weinstein Company
Fedak, Christopher 1998 Filmic Writing: is teaming with Josh Schwartz to write and executive produce pilot Grosse Pointe Blank, a hourlong high concept action drama
Ferrell, Will 1990 Sports Information: plays Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
Gray, James 1991 BA Critical Studies: has been set to rewrite and direct Alphabet City, based on a novel by Steven Knight, who originally wrote the first draft.
Grazer, Brian 1974 BA Psychology: will be producing the Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment thriller The Changeling by J. Michael Straczynski; is working with the FBI to develop an hourlong drama focusing on the agency's post-9/11 role within the government; with Imagine TV prexy/partner David Nevins, Grazer will team with Robert Borden, executive producer of George Lopez, to develop a half-hour comedy for Imagine Television.
Greutert, Kevin : is editing Saw 3, his third in the horror franchise.
Heslov, Grant 1986 BFA Cinema: will launch and run Smoke House, a Warners-based production shingle, with longtime colleague George Clooney in August 2006; will produce Universal's Leatherheads, which will star George Clooney, and possible Renee Zellweger.
Howard, Ron attended Cinema: will be directing the Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment thriller The Changeling by J. Michael Straczynski; will be directing an adaptation of Peter Morgan's play Frost/Nixon, which concerns the famed 1977 television interviews between David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.
Hutner, Becky 2003 BFA Screenwriting: will be producing and editing a new, daily entertainment show for NBC called Your LA
Juvonen, Nancy attended : is producing the Warner Bros. thriller He Loves Me along with her Flower Films partner, Drew Barrymore, in which Barrymore will also star.
Kaplan, Aaron : who is head of scripted TV and programming for William Morris Agencyis a new member on the board of the Hollywood Radio & Television Society
Klass, David 1989 MA Production: is author of the young adult bookFirestorm, which he has also adapted into screenplay for Warner Bros. Pictures. This will be the first in the planned Caretaker Trilogy.
Kroll, Jon 1989 MFA Peter Stark: will executive produce for New Line Television's Wedding Crashers, a hidden-camera reality take on the comedy feature.
Levy, Shawn 1994 MA CNTV: his production shingle 21 Laps Entertainment is producing the romantic comedy spec Matchbreaker for 20th Century Fox
Marciano, Meredith Jacobson 1981 Cinema Production: has ran a successful casting company in New York City since 1986, and has begun casting an Italian film for Filmauro, which will shoot in NYC called Christmas In New York.
Marino, Felipe 2004 MFA Peter Stark: is a partner of Occupant Films, a shingle he started two years ago along with two other recent graduates of the Peter Stark Producing Program, Joe Neurauter and Keith Calder. Marino is producer of All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, which Occupant financed on a six-figure budget.
McCollum, Kevin 1989 MFA Peter Stark: produced the new Off Broadway musical In the Heights, based off the book by Quiara Alegria Hudes.
McGurk, Chris : is in line to run the film side in the new Starz pay TV operation, which is in the making of becoming a full-fledged media company.
Moritz, Neal 1985 MFA Peter Stark: is producing a DreamWorks Pictures adaptation of the studio's book property Nightlife, about a female serial killer who changes identification every time she commits a murder; producing futuristic crime story, Roadside Picnic, based on the book by Russian writers Boris and Arkady Strugatsky.
Murphy, Don 1988 MA Cinema: of Angryfilms is producing the Warner Bros. Pictures adaptation of DC Comics' Deadman
Osborne, Nick 1997 MFA Peter Stark: of L.A.- based Underground Films signed a one-year, first-look deal with The Weinstein Company
Polhemus, Mack 1993 has written and directed two independent features, one of which is a family comedy that premiered at the Dances with Film Festival in Los Angeles, My Bad Dad. It's about a burned-out biker dude who is entrusted with three children when his ex-girlfriend dies.
Pratt, Chuck 1978 BA Cinema: has signed on to be executive producer of Fox's Vanished. Earlier this year, he signed a deal to wite two blind scripts for 20th Century Fox TV.
Roach, Jay 1986 MFA Production: with his company, Everyman Pictures, will produce the independent film, Smother , for Inferno Distribution. The film will star Diane Keaton, Dax Shepard, and Liv Tyler.
Schiff, David 1991 BA Production: is now Vice President of Development and Production for Hell's Kitchen producer Arthur Smith of A. Smith & Co
Schwartz, Josh 1999 BFA Filmic Writing: is teaming with Christopher Fedak to write and executive produce pilot Grosse Pointe Blank, a hourlong high concept action drama
Shadyac, Tom : of Shady Acres will produce Magic 8 Ball, a high-concept comedy about the toy, with Universal Pictures
Shamberg, Michael : was signed with Double Feature partner, Stacey Sher, to a three-year, first-look production deal with Paramount Pictures
Sher, Stacey 1985 MFA Peter Stark: was signed with Double Feature partner, Michael Shamberg, to a three-year, first-look production deal with Paramount Pictures
Singleton, John 1990 BFA Filmic Writing: has signed a five-picture domestic distribution pact with Universal Pictures under his production company, New Deal Productions
Susco, Stephen 1999 Production: will write the spec script for Lionsgate and Sobini Films' Santuary, based on the book Bad Men, by John Connolly.
Sztykiel, Adam 2000 BA CNTV: his production shingle 21 Laps Entertainment is producing the romantic comedy spec Matchbreaker for 20th Century Fox
Taylor, Michael Chair of USC CNTV Production Division : will produce the romantic drama Unforgettable for Gold Circle and released by Universal
Tennant, Andy 1977 BA Drama: will direct the adventure comedy Fool's Gold starring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson for Warner Bros.
Thurber, Rawson 1999 MFA Peter Stark: is directing Groundswell Production's, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, which will star Peter Sarsgaard, Sienna Miller, Nick Nolte, Jon Foster, and Mena Suvari
Weiner, Matthew 1994 MFA: has had his original drama Mad Men, a cinematic drama set in the 1960s Madison Avenue will follow the professional lives, social mores, and sexual exploits of ad execs, bought by AMC to premiere next June.
Weissman, Benjamin 1974 Production: is editing the limited anthology series Battleground by Stephen King for TNT
Ziskin, Laura 1973 BA Cinema: has been hired to produce the 79th Academy Awards by president, Sid Ganis
FILMS IN RELEASE
You, Me and Dupree Mike LeSieur Screenplay
Monster House Robert Zemeckis Executive Producer
Click Neal Moritz Producer
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest John Knoll Visual Effects Supervisor
My Super Ex-Girlfriend Sheldon Kahn Editor
Ant Bully Jon Price Editor
Zoom Suzanne Todd Producer
Zoom Jennifer Todd Producer
Zoom Nicholas Osborne Executive Producer
Zoom Trevor Engelson Executive Producer
Step Up Melissa Rosenberg Screenplay
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Rickey Bobby Judd Apatow Producer
Invincible Gordon Gray Producer
Invincible Ericson Core Director and Camera
Beerfest Lee Haxall Editor
The Black Dahlia Josh Friedman Screenplay
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show Ari Sandel Director
Borat:Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Jay Roach Producer
All the King's Men Gray Marshall Visual Effects Supervisor
Flyboys David S. Ward Screenplay
TV SHOWS
Blade: The Series David Goyer Executive Producer
Blade: The Series Jon Kroll Executive Producer
Entertainment Tonight J.D. Crowley Supervising Producer
The Insider J.D. Crowley Supervising Producer
Vanished Chris Black Co-executive Producer
Prison Break Neal Moritz Executive Producer
Prison Break Zack Estrin Co-executive Producer
Weeds Craig Zisk Co-executive Producer
Nip/Tuck Christopher Baffa Camera
Standoff Tim Story Director and Executive Producer
The Path to 9/11 Cyrus Nowrasteh Writer, Producer
Jericho Stephen Chbosky Executive Producer, Writer
Jericho Jon Turtletaub Director, Executive Producer
'Til Death Josh Goldsmith Executive Producer
'Til Death Cathy Yuspa Executive Producer
Smith John Wells Executive Producer, Writer
Six Degrees Bryan Burk Executive Producer
Heroes Greg Beeman Executive Producer
