Festival 2009: Producers Marketplace

Times

Mon Jun 8 at 7:30 PM

Cost

FREE

Venue

The Billy Wilder Theater (10899 Wilshire Boulevard (intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards) Los Angeles, CA 90024 310.206.8013 )

Producers Marketplace:

Vision Award Recipients: Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen

This highly anticipated annual event features five graduate students in the distinguished UCLA Producers Program, who will present their feature film projects to a panel of top-tier industry judges. These project presentations were vetted by industry professionals throughout the academic year. During the Producers Marketplace, the finalists take the stage to present their projects in five-minunte concept pitches. They then field a battery of questions from the judges about how they plan to get their projects made. The judges will select the most promising proposal and present the winning producer the UCLA Producers Marketplace Award. The audience will also get to select its favorite pitch.

Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, producing partners at Jinks/Cohen Productions based at DreamWorks, will accept the Vision Award from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and the Producers Guild of America.

The team’s producing credits include Oscar winner “American Beauty,” Oscar nominee “Milk” as well as the motion picture “Big Fish” and the television series “Pushing Daisies.”

The Vision Award will be presented by PGA Vice-President, Television, Mark Gordon ("The Day After Tomorrow," "Saving Private Ryan," "Grey's Anatomy").

Producers Marketplace is a competition between second-year graduate students in the UCLA Producers Program, who will present ideas for feature films to a distinguished panel of entertainment industry judges in front of a live audience.

The event takes place on Monday, June 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Billy Wilder Theater at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Westwood Village.

The student finalists' projects are:

SARAH DILEO
“The Place We Call Home” (comic-drama)
When her father dies, a young woman returns home to Ireland for the first time in ten years – and confronts the hilariously eccentric relatives and long-lost love she left behind when her father married her off to a Mormon missionary and sent her to America.

MIQI HUANG
“Oulu” (fantasy, adventure)
When their plane crashes onto a uncharted island, two siblings have to find clues from the Chinese mythology told by their grandparents in order to survive in a magical world where they must defeat a power hungry villain and find a way to get back home.

DANA KEITHLY
“Once Upon A Midnight Dreary” (family)
A struggling young writer’s life changes when he meets an immortal Edgar Allan Poe who offers him fame and fortune. But when the writer discovers Poe controls the souls of past famous writers, he teams up with a wise-cracking Raven and the object of his affection to stop Poe from enslaving more souls, including his own.

ALLISON MYRICK
“Songs By Dark” (comedy)
Rising pop star Natalie Dark realizes her loser ex-boyfriend’s sleep talking provided some of her best lyrics. As her ludicrous schemes fail to win him back, Natalie is forced to rediscover her own voice.

MISCHA PFISTER
“Steamtown” (film noir)
A visually stylized feature adaptation of an original graphic novel about a young piano-playing street hustler whose talents land him in an otherworldly underworld of sex, music, blackmail, and murder – where a true love will force him to give up everything he has ever dreamed of in order to save her life. (In the vein of SIN CITY and V FOR VENDETTA.)

Please join us for Producers Marketplace on Monday, June 8 at the Billy Wilder Theater as we honor these outstanding accomplishments and celebrate our graduating class of 2009.

Producers Marketplace 2009 is produced by Justin Begnaud and the class of 2010.

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Published

Mon Apr 20, 2009 in Screening

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