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Autumn Canaday (MPW '09) has been selected by the Producers Guild of America to participate in their 2008 Summer Diversity Workshop. She is one of twenty participants and will have the opportunity to develop a TV show based off of an original pitch. She also will be assigned a producer who will mentor her through the two-month program.
The short screenplay “Toepuncher” written by Karita Belloni (MPW '08) in Coleman Hough’s Spring 2008 semester “Indie Film” course is being shot in June 2008 by director David G. Stone as an MFA project through The New York Film Academy at Universal Studios.
Red Hen Press is publishing Tim Green’s (MPW '09) book of poetry American Fractal, coming out around December 2008.
Kimberly Keilbach's (MPW '08) book "Global Warming is Good for Business" is being published by Quill Driver Books. The author credits guidance provided in MPW Lecturer Paula Brancato's "Business of the Business" class.
Andrew McGregor (MPW '09) recently completed a research project in Rwanda as President and Founder of The Tiziano Project, a non-governmental organization dedicated to bringing online, multi-media citizen journalism to parts of the world neglected by the established press. The Project aspires to achieve this by providing equipment to talented locals and men toring them in journalism until they are contributing to Western news agencies. These citizen journalists then share their knowledge with organized youth groups The Project helps to make. Andrew's photos have run for Reuters, the Associated Press, AFP, and the European Press Agency in Rwanda and DR Congo. He also regularly exhibits photographs at a notable LA art gallery as well as the photojournalist gallery The Perfect Exposure.
Wayne Niemi's (MPW '08) humorous essay "Atheism & Spackle" is scheduled for publication in the Spring edition of The Red Clay Review. Also, his essay on the world's smallest cat, which he wrote as an assignment in M.G. Lord's class, is slated for the January edition of San Diego Magazine.
John O'Toole (MPW '10) has won second place in the 2008 Edward W. Moses Graduate Writing Competition for his short story "Paradise." The fiction judges were Aimee Bender, TC Boyle, Vicki Forman, and Dana Johnson. John finally wrote the story after years of recurrent dreams about riding a rollercoaster in a bizarre amusement park smack dab in the middle of downtown Chicago, where it definitely should not have been.
Colere 2008, Journal of Cultural Exploration, has published Julia Robinson Shimizu’s (MPW '08) narrative non-fiction essay “Foreigner at the Funeral.” Shimizu also has been nominated for the Los Angeles Business Journal “Women Making a Difference” award.
Stephen Silke (MPW '09) received the USC College Albert and Tove Boyajian Endowed Scholarship for the 2008-2009 academic year, honoring academic and personal achievements and potential to make additional contributions to the College next year.
Kristina Sisco Romero's (MPW '08) play "Red Carpet," written in Lee Wochner's Playwright's Workshop class, was a finalist as a short film script in the American Gen Short Screenplay Competition. The play was recently produced in New York and reviewed here.
MTV Networks has acquired the short film LONG AGO by Christy Wegener (MPW '08) and will air on the LOGO channel in 2008. The film will be distributed by Wolfe Video (U.S. & Canada) and BildKraft (Germany, Switzerland, and Austria). The film has screened at more than 20 international film festivals including, the Nashville Film Festival, Mix Brasil, and the Tel Aviv GLBT Film Festival.
Andrea J. Wilson's (MPW '08) essay My Memory Box, written in Madelyn Cain's Survey class, placed in the top 100 under the personal essay/memoir category in the 76th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition. Earlier last year, her nonfiction book proposal, written in Noel Riley Fitch's Advanced Nonfiction course, for her memoir Better off Bald placed sixth in the annual National Writers Association competition.
Detra Wilson (MPW '08) independently shot and edited a public service announcement for the Los Angeles Police Department Hollenbeck Police Activities League to help that foundation raise money for its inner-city youth programs. Detra also volunteers with the foundation as a leadership instructor and fundraiser.