Justin Wilson, M.F.A.

Director, Alumni Relations

213.740.2804
jawilson@cinema.usc.edu
LUC 209

Justin Wilson is a former English teacher and award-winning college journalist who currently serves as the USC School of Cinematic Arts’ Director of Alumni Relations, overseeing all alumni events and programs and working with the Cinematic Arts Alumni Council to strengthen the connections between alumni and the school. He also coordinates fundraising efforts with the school’s Leadership Circle and Annual Giving donor programs. As the Director of Guest Speaker Programs, Wilson is the liaison between the Dean’s Office, faculty and staff, and the entertainment industry for bringing in class guests and for arranging screenings of films and television programs. On a weekly basis, he books the films and guests for Leonard Maltin’s famed Thursday night 466 class.
 
Wilson was an entertainment editor of the Cavalier Daily student newspaper during his undergraduate years at the University of Virginia, winning an AP college journalism award for excellence in lifestyle reporting. He then moved overseas, working as an English teacher in both Japan and Spain, and traveled the globe extensively during this “wanderlust period.”

Later, he worked in television as a production assistant on Dennis Miller Live. As a feature film screenwriter, Wilson has optioned the action-thriller Commander-in-Chief to Phoenix Pictures and the “magic realism drama” The Tin Man to Cry Havoc Productions. Wilson’s current project, Learning Uncle Vernon is being produced by Rival Pictures.