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Alumni Quick Takes 1930–1939 Henry Bumstead, Architecture ’37, nominated for the Art Directors Guild Production Design Award for Warner Bros.’ Mystic River Elizabeth Allen ’99 1960–1969 Walter Murch ’67, nominated for the ACE Eddie Award in Drama for Cold Mountain 1970–1979 Brian Cochrane ’75, has been named assistant man- aging editor of Daily Variety Andy Friendly ’73, executive produced Luxury, which aired on ABC and gave the network its best ratings in seven months in the Monday 8 p.m. slot Brian Grazer ’74, nominated for PGA Award for Producer of the Year for TV Drama, Series (24-Fox); will produce The Man Who Kept Secrets for Paramount; is executive producer of The Big House for 20th Century Fox Television; will produce Flight Plan for Disney with Robert DiNozzi executive producing Bruce Green, edited Raising Helen along with Tara Timpone Randal Kleiser ’74, will direct Love Wrecked for Media 8 Entertainment Rex McGee ’75, has written Hallmark’s upcoming film for television Love, Clyde John McLaughlin, ’79, won the WGA Award for Comedy/Variety for the Showtime TV series Penn & Teller: Bullshit with fellow alumnus David Wechter ’77, Two other alumni, Mark Wolper ’83 and Star Price ’83, executive produced Chuck Pratt ’78, will executive produce Desperate Housewives with Mark Cherry and Michael Edelstein for Touchstone Television, Miles Hood Swarthout ’73, won the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for the Best First Western Novel of 2003 for his novel The Sergeant’s Lady Ron Underwood ’74, directed the film Two Thumbs Up! Robert Zemeckis ’73, will produce The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio, along with his ImageMovers partners Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke, for DreamWorks and Revolution Studios Laura Ziskin ’73 and Neal Moritz ’85, are producing Stealth for Columbia Pictures 8 | in motion fall 2004 1980–1989 Judd Apatow ’87, will write, produce, and direct a “middle-age coming of age film” for Universal Robert Ballo ’85, directed and co-produced The Great Year, which aired January 28 on KOCE Elisa Bell ’87, will be scripting Dirty Little Secret for Paramount Pictures; is currently writing Honey West for Miramax Anita Brandt Burgoyne ’80, won the ACE Eddie Award for Best Editor of the Year in Drama for Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story Ignacio Darnuade ’89,produced last year’s Mexican hit Ladies’ Night; his treatment The Red House has been acquired by Warner Independent Pictures Bryan Fuller ’83, executive produced Wonderfalls for 20th Century Fox Television and Regency Television Gordon Gray ’86,will produce Carlisle School for Walden Media Robert Greenblatt ’87, nominated for a PGA Award for Producer of the Year for TV Drama Series (Six Feet Under-HBO) Phil Joanou ’84, will direct Hammer Down for DreamWorks Evan Katz ’86, won the WGA Award for episodic drama for Fox’s 24 Michael Lehmann ’85, directed an episode of Century City for Universal Network Television Rodney Liber ’86, is producing the motion picture Synergy for Universal Pictures Robert Osher ’81, has been named chief operating officer of Columbia Pictures Motion Picture Group Jim Piechocki ’85, wrote and directed Eminem Aka, a biographical documentary of the rapper, for Xenon Pictures Lon Rosen ’81, was named vice president and chief marketing officer of the Los Angeles Dodgers Gary Rydstrom ’81, was nominated for an Academy Award in sound editing for Finding Nemo Aaron Schneider ’88, was cinematographer on The D.A. for Warner Bros. Television John Schwartzman ’85, won The American Society of Cinematographers Award for Seabiscuit Peter Segal ’84, will direct The Longest Yard for Paramount and Sony Stacey Sher ’85, will produce the screen adaptation of Little Earthquakes for Universal; her new production company, Double Feature Films, is filming two projects, one with Keanu Reeves and the other with Harrison Ford Bryan Singer ’89, will direct a remake of Logan’s Run for Warner Bros. Jennifer & Suzanne Todd ’87, ’86, will produce Exorcism for Dummies for Revolution; they are producing Sex Talk for New Line Cinema Steve Turner ’88, is co-producing HBO’s Deadwood and was producer of the WB series The Gilmore Girls David Weiss ’87, wrote Shrek 2 for DreamWorks John Wells ’82, was nominated for a PGA Award for Producer of the Year for TV, Drama Series (The West Wing-NBC); he produced Johnny Zero for John Wells Productions and Warner Bros., to air on Fox Mark Wolper ’83, executive produced Helter Skelter, which was filmed by the Wolper Organization in association with Warner Bros. Television Laurel Moje Wetzork ’93 1990–1999 Glenn Adilman ’90, took over as vice president of network development at Sony Pictures Television Elizabeth Allen ’99, will direct Aquamarine for Fox 2000 and is writing and directing Driving While Infatuated for Fox Searchlight John August ’94, will executive produce and supervise the script of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time for Disney Walt Becker ’95, has been commissioned to script Bull Rider Irving Belateche ’94, wrote The Reckoning, which has been acquired by Odd Lot Entertainment and A Band Apart Jeremy Bell ’99, is producing, along with partners Michael Lasker ’01 and George Heller ’01 at Foursight Entertainment, Camp Rockaway, for Red Wagon Entertainment and Columbia Michael Berns ’92, is co-executive producing NBC’s Las Vegas Gregg Bishop ’99, wrote and directed the supernatural thriller The Other Side for Elisa Bell ’87 Wonder Studios and Bishop Productions Sanford Bookstaver ’95, will direct The Tiny Problems of White People for Maverick Films Mary Cheney ’96, was appointed vice president and senior producer at Burnett R.J. Cutler and Jay Roach ’86, have
officially launched the search for The American Candidate as part of a new reality series for Showtime Samuel Dickerman ’94, will executive produce Xanth for Warner Bros. Jason Ensler ’97, will direct Grilled for New Line Cinema Jonathan Glickman ’93, will produce Pacifier for Spyglass Entertainment David Goffin ’97, nominated for PGA Award for Producer of the Year for Reality/Game Series (American Idol-Fox) Al Gough ’94, and Miles Millar ’94, will produce Powerpuff Girls for Disney Luke Greenfield ’94, will direct and produce The Untitled Destiny Project for his newly launched production company; will direct and produce The Holiday Club for 20th Century Fox David Hamlin ’94, filmed Avalanche: Surviving Tragedy, which aired on MSNBC’s National Geographic Ultimate Explorer Dan Hertzog ’91, shot and directed an ad campaign for NPR Claudine Ise ’98, joined Wexner Center for the Arts as associate Noah Kadner ’99 curator for exhibitions Richard Kelly ’97, will direct the comedy-musical thriller Southland Tales for Cherry Road Films Noah Kadner ’99, directed his first feature, Formosa, an independent project produced by High Road Productions Anya Kochoff ’91, wrote the script for Manhattan Baby, a romantic comedy that will be produced by Reese Witherspoon Leslie Lwerks ’93, completed a one-hour TV special on high- wave surfing, which won the top award at X-Dance in Park City, Utah; is currently in post-production on a high-definition feature documentary about the history of Pixar Animation Studios Lucky Mckee ’97, will direct Red, based on the horror novel by Jack Ketchum, for United Artists Doug Miro ’96, co-scripted Skeletons and The Last Talisman for DreamWorks and The Great Raid for Miramax Constantine Nasr ’97, produced The Looney Tunes Golden Collection, rated the Best DVD of 2003 by Entertainment Weekly, and is currently at work on volume 2 Vanessa Newell ’98, is one of the editors for the documentary series TV Revolution Tommy O’Haver ’95, will direct Magick for DreamWorks and Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers Nick Osborne ’97, will produce The Pariah for Underground Films Ari Posner ’93, provided the music for The Last Mogul: The Life and Times of Lew Wasserman Nick Pustay ’95, will adapt the novel Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal for Mission Entertainment Kevin Ross ’90, was an editor on Fox’s TV series Wonderfalls; he also serves as a representative on the board of directors for the Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE, Local 700 Hal Schwartz ’95, produced Committed, which stars Reiko Aylesworth, Bruno Campos, JoBeth Williams, Meat Loaf, Marla Sokoloff, Greg Germann, and David Alan Basche; the crew also included DP Matthew Heckerling ’02; editor Adam Stein, a current student; writer Carol Watson ’95, who passed away in 1998; and associate producer Lennox Wiseley ’95 Josh Schwartz ’99, will write and executive produce a new TV drama series for Warner Bros. John Sclimenti ’90, produced a rockumentary, Riding in Vans with Boys, which was picked up for distribution by Melee Entertainment, a DVD specialty arm of DreamWorks John Singleton ’90, will develop and direct Luke Cage for Columbia with Neal Moritz producing Erich Stonestreet ’97, directed an action- comedy music video, Crush, for Waverly Stephen Susco ’99, wrote the script for the movie Red, which is to be produced by United Artists Lee Unkrich ’90, was nominated for the ACE Eddie Award in Comedy for Finding Nemo Sytze Van der Laan ’93, has been promoted to co-CEO of the Studio Hamburg Group Bree Michael Warner ’98, completed photography on the feature film Boardwalk Poets Laurel Moje Wetzork ’93, directed Rogues, a psychological thriller that screened at the Palm Beach International Festival Jim Whitaker ’94, has been promoted to president of production for Universal-based Imagine Films Robert Winn ’97 directed, wrote, and produced, and Lindsey Jang ’99 wrote and produced the documentary Saigon, USA which aired on PBS 2000 –Present J.R. Arinaga ’04 and Tyler Soper ’04, reached the finals of the 2003 –2004 Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker’s Awards for their film The Essentials Aditya Assarat ’00, wrote and directed Hi-So, which was selected by The Sundance Institute for its annual January Screenwriters Lab Joe Ballarini ’00, wrote and is expected to direct F+ for MGM Jennie Chamberlain ’04 and Gabriel Lichstein ’03, reached the finals of the 2003–2004 Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker’s Awards for their film Love and Other Stuff Sean Covel ’02 and Chris Wyatt ’02, produced Napolean Dynamite, which was purchased by Fox Searchlight at the Sundance Film Festival Nelson Cragg ’03, won the American of Cinematographers Society Conrad L. Hall Heritage Award, which is presented to promising film school students or recent gradu- ates Chad Creasey ’03, wrote Sydney White & the Seven Dorks, which was optioned by Dara Resnik for her graduate thesis and has been purchased by Warner Bros. Victoria Foster ’04, directed Unsyncables At Any Age, a documentary presented at the L.A. Harbor International Film Festival Alex Franklin ’00, has been promoted to director of development at Lions Gate Entertainment Yana Gorskaya ’02, won the ACE Eddie Award in Documentary for Spellbound Jason Lust ’00, has acquired rights through his company, Circle of Confusion, to filmmaker Ken Baker’s memoir, Man Made; is one of the producers on Jinx for Universal, and is financing and producing Red, based on the horror novel by Jack Ketchum, Corey May ’01 and Dooma Wendschuh ’01, will produce and distribute the screen adaptation of The Dogs of Babel with Focus Features Chris Prouty ’03, with Steve Desmond and Jill Prouty, won first place in the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation College Television Awards competition in the category of Children’s Programming, for Saving Worms Amy Slucter ’03, won an Alfred P. Sloan Film Award for The Cure Shawn Sylvian ’00, has taken over as artistic director of the Tacoma Grand Cinema Reggie Vinluan ’04, won an Alfred P. Sloan Film Award for Afterbirth Andrew Waller ’03, is directing Ice Princess for Disney Nelson Cragg ’03 Current Students Judith Fernando, and Christine Shin reached the finals of the 2003–2004 Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker’s Awards for their film Movie Date Jesse Wheeler, won an Alfred P. Sloan Film Award for The Dry Season Mun Chee Yong, won a ninth annual DGA Student Award. fall 2004 in motion | 9
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