MFA meets Hollywood
paperhaus December 6th, 2006
I don’t know Stephanie Lord, but she’s an MFA student here at Pitt. This fall she won a Don and Gee Nicholls Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. She got to go to a dinner at the Academy a couple weeks ago, and she also got $30,000 bucks. I got the zeroes right — that’s thirtythousanddollars. Sweet. Anyway, tonight she’ll be talking to a class of grad students and I’m sneaking in to get the story. Grad school can be cool!
My old screenwriting workshop had several Nicholl winners in it (including one of last year’s) and they never ever had anything but the very best things to say about it. It’s a fantastic competition.
Did you make it to the panel we did for the MFA program? It was me, Carl Kurlander and David Dellasandro. Don’t know if I saw you there, but I do remember the two giant roaches making mad, passionate love to each other in front of the dais just as the panel began.
Anyhoo, I left a bunch of links to the different cool workshops and fellowships for screenwriters with Chuck Kinder in case you didn’t get one.
Bye,
Stephanie