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Department Info The department office is open M, W, Th, F from 8 AM to 5 PM and Tu from 8 AM to 7 PM. The department office is located in Manzanita Hall, Room 195. The department phone number is (818) 677-3192. Four-Year and Five-Year Degree Programs Click here to download the 2009 Film Portfolio Review Application Click here for an article in Scr(i)pt Magazine that profiles CTVA's undergraduate and graduate screenwriting programs. NEW INFORMATION REGARDING THE SCREENWRITING PORTFOLIO For administrative reasons, the portfolio review process will NOT be implemented this semester as previously announced. Instead, it will be introduced in Fall 2008. Until then, students will be able to advance into the Screenwriting Option under the old guidelines (junior standing, C or better in CTVA 100 and CTVA 210, B- or better in CTVA 220, overall GPA of 2.0 or better). To be clear, students who satisfy these requirements after this current, spring semester or after the upcoming summer semesters will be eligible to enter Screenwriting. Any student still in the process of satisfying the course requirements in Fall 2008 will need to submit a portfolio in order to enter the Screenwriting Option, as will any student who wishes to apply thereafter. The portfolio will include an application page, the first act of the screenplay written as the final project for CTVA 220 or its transferable equivalent, a current transcript (a B- or better in CTVA 220 and a C or better in CTVA 100 and CTVA 210 still will be expected), and the responses to a short-answer exam that will be administered on campus toward the end of each semester. |
Announcements (March 30) Alexis Krasilovsky's documentary Women Behind the Camera won the "Best Documentary Film" award at the Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto, Canada. Alexis Krasilovsky also participated as a participant on two panels at the festival: "The Status of Women Directors in Film" and "Directors' Panel." She joined such respected directors as Kari Skogland, director of "The Stone Angel" starring Ellen Burstyn and Ellen Page.
Click here to view the 2008 CTVA Scholarship Awards Banquet Photo Gallery.
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Recent Cinema and Television Arts alumni Kathryn Ryan and Cristina Ramirez-Mares's senior film project POV: A Dogumentary received a 3rd Place Award at the 29th Annual College Television Awards informally known as the "Student Emmys". The two were students in the Film Production Option. The awards show on March 15th, 2008 was sponsored by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation and represents the nation's best in student film, video, and digital work. The evening was hosted by Tom Bergeron host of Dancing With The Stars with celebrity presenters from such shows as Boston Legal, Psych, Nip/Tuck, Saving Grace, Heroes, The Closer, The Shield, and Desperate Housewives.
Arri, Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of motion picture cameras, is continuing "The Arri 35mm Project" with the CSUN Department of Cinema and Television Arts Film Production Option. This special program provides the opportunity each semester for a selected senior level project in the Film production Option to be produced in the 35mm format. Arri, Inc. will provide a new 35mm Arricam motion picture camera (valued at $700,000) and lighting units for use by the selected group while other production services, post production services, and equipment including grip and generator are provided free by various leading industry vendors which include Eastman Kodak, Fuji, Fotokem, J.L. Fisher, Lacy Street Studios, and Illumination Dynamics. "The Arri 35mm Project" also has a mentoring element. A professional cinematographer and member of the American Society of Cinematographers (A.S.C.), with an impressive body of work, will mentor those students involved in the photography of the selected motion picture. The program is the brainchild of CTVA Alumnus and Arri, Inc. Vice President Bill Russell and Professor Nate Thomas, Head of the Film Production Option. Kelly Browne, screenwriting alumna, has written the book 101 Ways to Say Thank You: Notes of Gratitude for All Occasions. website address: www.KellyBrowne.net Film production student Ryan Reichenfeld has created the box[ur]shorts film festival. For information or to enter visit www.boxurshorts.com. Film Independent has selected 40 fellows for Project: Involve, its annual diversity mentorship program. The participants were announced at a reception at the Eastman Kodak Co. Thursday night. Congratulations to documentarian Jonathan Menendez [CTVA Multimedia Spring 2007 Graduate] for being selected as a participant. Project: Involve is dedicated to increasing cultural diversity in the film industry by cultivating the careers of under-represented filmmakers. The program, which runs from Nov. through June, offers a combination of one-on-one mentorships, filmmaking workshops, community screenings and job placement. Additionally, Project: Involve Fellows receive a complimentary one-year membership to Film Independent. "We have a remarkable group of filmmakers from culturally diverse backgrounds in this year's Project: Involve," Dawn Hudson, FIND exec director, said. "Project: Involve serves as an effective incubator for diverse voices in the industry and we are proud that this signature program has cultivated the talents and careers of more than 450 filmmakers." Julia Wright (MA in Critical Studies) has just been accepted into the Ph.D. in Film program at UCLA and was awarded the Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship. Recent MA in Screenwriting graduate Eyvonne Williams-Hines has just won the prestigious Bill Cosby Writing Fellowship at USC. She will spend an intensely mentored 15 weeks writing an original feature script that will then be represented to Hollywood film companies by top agents.
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Professor Jon Stahl, head of the CTVA Screenwriting Option, has won first place in the Feature-length category of the Broadcast Education Association's Festival of Media Arts Faculty Scriptwriting Competition. Additionally, his screenplay has been selected for the Best of Fest Award. He will receive the honors at BEA's annual convention in April Professor Nate Thomas, Head of the Film Production Option, was honored February 22nd as a Distinguished Alumnus at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas where he did his undergraduate degree in Theatre Arts. Thomas was honored for "social work practice through film and media". Professor Thomas has directed and produced many socially relevant television Public Service Announcements and the feature film East of Hope Street which is now used in many Graduate social work programs and child protection agencies as a training tool.
The CTVA Department's Film Production Option received $60,000 for scholarships for senior film project students for the '07-'08 academic year. Another $15,000 was awarded for hardware and software upgrades in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Senior Film Edit Suite and the Film Sound Mix facility both located in Manzanita Hall. Lastly, $5,000 was awarded to help mount the Annual Senior Film Showcase slated for May 2008. The directors of the senior film projects have the distinction of being named "Hollywood Foreign Press Fellows". Two time Academy Award winner and Golden Globe winner Hilary Swank announced the award to CSUN, as well as several other film schools, at the HFPA's Annual Installation and Grants Luncheon held August 9th at the Beverly Hills Hotel. CSUN's award of $80,000 was the largest presented to a film school this year. Other celebrities in attendance included Jennifer Lopez, Mark Anthony, Forest Whitaker, Jamie Foxx, and Charlize Theron. Professor Nate Thomas, Film Production Option Head, and Dr. John Schultheiss, CTVA Chair, represented CSUN at the event. [Click here to read complete article from the Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety.]  BEVERLY HILLS, CA - AUGUST 9: (Photos Courtesy HFPA) Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez and President Jorge Camara at the HFPA Annual Installation Luncheon held at The Beverly Hills Hotel on August 9, 2007 in Beverly Hills, California. CSUN CTVA screenwriters won in each of the two scriptwriting categories at this year's CSU Media Arts Festival. Grad student Rowan Sutherland won in the Short Screenplay Category for "Talitha and the Gnome." Two CTVA students tied for first in the Feature Screenplay Category, Diana Karna for A Life That Matters and Brandie Coonis for Rabbit Girl. Catharsis: The Story of a Survivor's Art won first place in the Documentary Category.
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