News about Screenwriting MFA

• TFT screenwriting student Joseph Tremba tops Goldwyn Awards
  54-year-old writing competition encourages hundreds of aspiring young writers
  Thu Nov 5, 2009 in Accolade
• Jump into comics with screenwriting alum Felicia Henderson
  From TV's "Gossip Girl" to DC's "Teen Titans"
  Fri Oct 9, 2009 in Press
• Screenwriting alumna takes Slamdance teleplay prize
  Beverly Neufeld wins $10,000 in Norman Lear-sponsored competition
  Fri Aug 28, 2009 in Press
• Crew of alums documents the 2009 Sundance Institute Directors Lab
  Bodie directs webisode series
  Tue Aug 4, 2009 in Announcement
• Matthew J. Reichl - 1975-2009
  Screenwriting alum worked for Princeton Review
  Wed Jul 1, 2009 in Obituary
• "Hung" up at HBO
  Payne-directed preem scores record ratings
  Wed Jul 1, 2009 in Press
• Screenwriter Kalogridis one of 10 to Watch says "Los Angeles Times"
  Screenwriting alumna has films for Scorsese, Cameron and Cruise in the pipeline
  Mon Jun 22, 2009 in Press
• Payne is guest director at Telluride 2009
  "Sideways" auteur selects films both classic and obscure for spirited indie fest
  Fri Jun 19, 2009 in Press
• Steven Bochco's tips for aspiring writers
  The Executive Board Member and "Hill Street" creator on talking his way into a career
  Thu Jun 11, 2009 in Press
• Travis Wright is "Reborn"
  "Eagle Eye" writer-producer will update Merlin and King Arthur in live-action Cartoon Network feature
  Tue Apr 28, 2009 in Press
• "American Violet" anatomizes injustice
  Nancy Richardson MFA '96 edited film about prosecutorial racism in smalltown Texas
  Fri Apr 24, 2009 in Press
• MFA screenplay c. 1975 resurrected as a play
  Film project praised by Truffaut debuts on stage with LeVar Burton
  Wed Mar 25, 2009 in Announcement
• Catherine Hardwicke, Don Payne take "Maximum Ride"
  Alums team up on adaptation of popular YA fantasy series
  Wed Mar 25, 2009 in Press
• "Sideways" is turning Japanese
  Alexander Payne's Oscar-winner is being re-made by Fox Japan
  Tue Mar 24, 2009 in Press
• Gervasi's "Anvil" wins rave reviews
  VH1 will release alum's heartfelt heavy metal doc
  Wed Mar 11, 2009 in Announcement
• Payne plans sci-fi comedy "Downsizing"
  Giamatti, Witherspoon and Baron Cohen will get small
  Tue Mar 3, 2009 in Press
• Gore Verbinski has a "Clue"
  Latest from "Pirates" director joins a wave of board game adaptations
  Thu Feb 26, 2009 in Press
• Bruins honored at Berlinale '09
  Alums take prizes; professor observes
  Tue Feb 24, 2009 in Accolade
• Oscar win for screenwriter Dustin Lance Black '96
  Labor-of-love script for "Milk" honors the martyred gay activist whose example "saved my life"
  Mon Feb 23, 2009 in Accolade
• Dustin Lance Black '96 wins two Writers Guild awards for "Milk"
  Emotional acceptance speech calls for a post-Prop 8 return to Milk-style "grassroots activism"
  Mon Feb 9, 2009 in Press
• Screenwriter Katherine Ruppe MFA '04 finds inspiration in a bad boyfriend
  New York Times essay was reprinted from an anthology on romantic disasters
  Fri Jan 23, 2009 in Press
• Schrader/Goldblum: Heaviness for Christmas
  The "Taxi Driver" alum and his "Adam Resurrected" star on art, craft and collabroration
  Fri Dec 19, 2008 in Press
• Peter Guber hopes the story never ends
  Studio Professor helps MIT fight for the future of narrative
  Wed Dec 10, 2008 in Press
• MFA candidate Rapoza sells script to Universal
  Goldwyn Awards Fourth place finish leads to contract with CAA
  Mon Nov 24, 2008 in Press
• Ray drives Wiseman's "Motorcade," squires "Conjure Wife"
  Screenwriter-director Billy Ray '85 can separate the two
  Fri Nov 14, 2008 in Press
• UCLA sweeps 2008 Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards
  For the first time in its 53 year history the annual Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards, which recognize excellence in dramatic writing, have been swept by students from a single program.
  Fri Nov 7, 2008 in Accolade
• Recent grad already has her "Assets" covered
  Andrea McCloud sells workplace-comedy pitch to Lionsgate
  Fri Oct 31, 2008 in Press
• Audrey Wells directs Naomi Watts as global activist
  "Tuscan Sun" auteur dramatizes Nobel Prize-winning anti-landmine campaign
  Mon Oct 27, 2008 in Press
• Scribe Wright follows "Eagle Eye" with "Harlem Hellfighters"
  Alumnus celebrates black GIs who brought Jazz to Europe during World War I
  Mon Oct 27, 2008 in Press
• Black chases "Milk" with "Kool-Aid"
  Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters ride again for director Gus Van Sant
  Mon Oct 27, 2008 in Press
• Ray adapts Raymond's "Rig"
  Alum follows "Shattered Glass" with another fact-based exposeè
  Wed Oct 15, 2008 in Press
• UCLA's Goldwyn finalists
  The Hollywood Reporter announced the 2008 Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards Competition award finalists,...
  Tue Sep 23, 2008 in Accolade
• Alum's "Plath" will be Madden's next
  "Shakespeare in Love" director films Goldwyn Award script
  Fri Aug 15, 2008 in Announcement
• Don Payne takes "Maximum Ride"
  Alum will adapt James Patterson's mutant adventure bestseller
  Fri Aug 8, 2008 in Press
• O'Kieffe visits "Island of Lost Souls"
  Alum will help director Nokoaj Arcel re-make Norwegian hit
  Mon Aug 4, 2008 in Press
• TFT alums' world premieres in Toronto
  Films directed by Koepp and Prince-Bythewood will be gala presentations at the Toronto International Film Festival
  Mon Jul 21, 2008 in Announcement
• Gervasi rock doc "Anvil" wins at Los Angeles Film Festival
  Screenwriting alum's tribute to boyhood idols is audience favorite
  Wed Jul 2, 2008 in Accolade
• Arneson-scripted "Peck" wraps
  Marcia Cross and Adam Arkin co-star
  Wed Jun 25, 2008 in Press
• Alum Dan Mazeau one of Variety's "10 to Watch"
  Scribe credits "supportive, collaborative atmosphere" fostered by Walter and Ackerman in the MFA screenwriting program
  Thu Jun 19, 2008 in Press
• David Koepp and the Kingdom of Steven Spielberg
  Screewriting alum put words in Indiana Jones' mouth
  Wed Jun 18, 2008 in Announcement
• Daily Variety notes honor for alumnus Eric Roth at our 2008 Festival
  "Scribe Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Munich) will be presented with the Distinguished Achievement in Screenwriting...
  Wed Jun 4, 2008 in Press
• Gina Prince-Bythewood '91 films bestselling "Secret Life of Bees"
  TFT alum Gina Prince-Bythewood '91 is outting the finishing touches on her adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's...
  Mon Mar 24, 2008 in Announcement
• Professor Hal Ackerman's 'Testosterone' play opens in CA
  "Actor-playwright Hal Ackerman (www.halackerman.com) takes a frank look at his own mortality," according...
  Thu Mar 20, 2008 in Event
• Mexico's Lemon Films plans two projects
  MEXICO CITY -- Coming off the success of boxoffice horror hit "Kilometer 31," Mexican shingle Lemon Films...
  Fri Apr 6, 2007 in Announcement
• UCLA Alumnus Alexander Payne's 'Sideways' Wins an Academy Award
  In ceremonies for the 77th annual Academy Awards UCLA TFT Alum Alexander Payne and his screenwriting...
  Fri Dec 17, 2004 in Accolade
• UCLA Library Acquires Papers of Television Pioneer Harry Crane
  The UCLA Library has acquired the papers of Harry Crane (1914-99), creator of "The Honeymooners" and...
  Wed Dec 1, 2004 in Announcement
• Writers Who Will Shape Tomorrow's Movies and Literature Receive Honors
  Tammy Duffy, graduate student in screenwriting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, has...
  Tue Nov 2, 2004 in Accolade
• TFT Featured and Profiled in Hollywood Reporter
  Film schools
  Tue Sep 14, 2004 in Press
• Winners Announced in 2004 UCLA Screenplay Competition
  The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television presented screenwriting awards on June 17 to 10 outstanding...
  Tue Jul 13, 2004 in Accolade
• Bruin Story on the Drake Brothers
  Brothers look to future in film
  Wed Jun 16, 2004 in Press

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