Writer/director Tina Mabry and producer Morgan Stiff met in 2003 at USC School of Film and Television's graduate program. Although Mabry had been thinking of going to law school, she changed her mind after watching Gina Prince-Bythewood's Love & Basketball and Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry. Stiff, who was a dramatic writing major at NYU, also opted for film and television when she realized most of the audience she wanted to reach were not avid theater-goers.

Writer/director Michael Hoffman has made a diverse bunch of movies, from the quirky comedy Soapdish to the romantic comedy One Fine Day to his take on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

For most of his Hollywood career, Scott Cooper has been known as an actor. He thought he was dreaming when he decided he wanted to direct his first film about the life of a down and out country singer with such stars as Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, and the famous composer T Bone Burnett. But his ambition paid off. Crazy Heart, stars Bridges, Duvall, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Colin Farrell as well as music by T Bone Burnett. Bridges and Farrell even sing their own ballads.

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to attend our screening of

Me and Orson Welles

November 12, 2009

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Richard Linklater, the director who brought the term Slacker into the popular lexicon with his 1991 independent film, has now ventured into the life of a young Orson Welles with his latest film, Me and Orson Welles.

As a director and producer, Lee Daniels has never shied away from addressing abuse and racism (Monster's Ball),  pedophilia (The Woodsman), abuse and incest (Shadowboxer). With his latest film, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, he takes incest on again. Daniels says the film helped him purge some of the demons from his difficult childhood. The film, which won the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, has been critically acclaimed for its rawness but also its ability to inspire and uplift.