News

Pilar Anguita-MacKay '01
Has released her first feature film in Switzerland La Memoire Des Autres, about a family drama that explores multiple points of views regarding a family's past.

Doug Atchison '88
Will write and direct Class Act, about a sixth-grade teacher who is persuaded by her students to run for Congress in the 2000 elections. The Dreamworks film will star Halle Berry.

Dave Bartis
Will executive produce Business Class for NBC. It's a half-hour comedy, which revolves around two national sales reps who embark on a nonstop business trip.

Sarah Boyd '93
Was nominated twice for a 2006 Emmy for single-camera editing of a drama series for two separate episodes of Lost; is editing Resurrecting the Champ, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Josh Hartnett.

Gary Bryman '96
Is currently producing Boogeyman 2.

Leo S. Chiang '00
Produced and directed To You Sweetheart, Aloha, a documentary about Bill Tapia, the colorful 94-year-old Hawaii born 'ukulele master', who has outlived everyone he loves. Through a friendship with a much younger woman, he arrives unexpectedly at the pinnacle of his career.

Mercedes Coats '99
Produced and directed To You Sweetheart, Aloha, a documentary about Bill Tapia, the colorful 94-year-old Hawaii born 'ukulele master', who has outlived everyone he loves. Through a friendship with a much younger woman, he arrives unexpectedly at the pinnacle of his career.

Nathan Collett current student
Won "Director's Choice" for Kibera Kid at the 2007 Angelus Student Film Festival.

David Cunningham
Will be directing a fantasy film The Dark is Rising, which will kick off the co-financing alliance with Walden Media and 20th Century Fox.

Josh Donen '79
Will produce Screen Gems' Armored for Buckaroo Entertainment.

Susan Downey '93
Is being elevated as one of the co-presidents of Dark Castle.

Gary Fleder '93
Is one of the executive producers for ABC's October Road, a relationship drama which will start production in October.

Kevin Greutert '87
Is editing the film Strangers for Rogue Pictures.

Steve Hein
Is currently producing Boogeyman 2.

Rian Johnson '96
Wrote and will direct the independent adventure film The Brothers Bloom, which will star Rachel Weisz.

Teodora Kerkeniakova '97
Has been appointed director of production and development of Bill Pohlad's River Road Entertainment, who was responsible for Brokeback Mountain.

Scott Kosar '89
Has been named the screenwriter for Universal and Reese Witherspoon's Type A Films Bell Witch, which Reese will produce.

Doug Liman
Will executive produce Business Class for NBC. It's a half-hour comedy, which revolves around two national sales reps who embark on a nonstop business trip.

John Milius '67 Will write the Korean War picture The Chosen Few for Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban's 2929 Entertainment.

Neal Moritz '85
Has set up a pair of high-profile projects at Fox including a pilot from Evan Almighty.

Andre Nemec
Is one of the executive producers for ABC's October Road, a relationship drama, which will start production in October.

Cyrus Nowrasteh '77
Is set to write the second draft of Jawbreaker.

Joe Nussbaum '96 Will direct romantic comedy Cougars about a group of young men who are fed up with dating women their age and decide to date older women.

Ben Queen '96
Is one of the creators for Fox's new series production Drive an hourlong action series.

Jay Roach '86
Is set to co-write and produce another reality-based film with Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen.

Josh D. Schorr '91
Has been chosen as one of the the ten finalist out of 4,899 submissions for his screenplay, 10 Day Contract, by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences 2006 Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.

Bryan Singer '89
Has signed a deal with Warner Bros. Pictures to direct and produce a sequel to Superman Returns with Legendary Pictures expected to co-finance.

Josh Stolberg '96
Is one of the writers for Evan Almighty, which Original Film will be producing a pilot from it for Fox.

Stephen Susco '99
Will make his first directorial debut for Focus Features' White, which is an adaptation of a novella included within author Tim Lebbon's White and Other Tales of Ruin. It is the apocalyptic tale centering on a band of people trapped in a blizzard and systematically picked off by mysterious phantoms.

Michael Zoumas '89
Will produce Focus Features' White for his Zoom Entertainment. White is an adaptation of a novella included within author Tim Lebbon's White and Other Tales of Ruin, and is the apocalyptic tale centering on a band of people trapped in a blizzard and systematically picked off by mysterious phantoms. Zoumas will also be producing Rogue's untitled carnival project described as an intense horror film involivng sideshow freaks and other carnival horrors.

Greg Yaitanes '92
Directed and executive produced the pilot Drive, Fox's new action series production.

Robert Zemeckis '73
Is set to produce Animated American, a film that will use a mix of live-action and animation to tell the story of the difficulty teens face when trying to fit in.

Films and TV Shows

Flushed Away
Richard L. Anderson, Supervising Sound Editor.

Running With Scissors
Christopher Baffa, Camera.

The Grudge 2
Jeff Betancourt, Editor;
Stephen Susco, Screenplay, based on Ju-On: The Grudge.

Saw III
Kevin Greutert, Editor.