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The department office is open M, W, R, F from 8 AM to 5 PM and T from 8 AM to 7 PM.

The department office is located in Manzanita Hall, Room 195. The department phone number is (818) 677-3192.

Click here for an article in Scr(i)pt Magazine that profiles CTVA's undergraduate and graduate screenwriting programs.

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Click here to view the 2008 CTVA Scholarship Awards Banquet Photo Gallery. Anyone who wants pictures should email ctva2wynter@aol.com with the photo number and Dianah Wynter will send them a .jpeg for free.

(Spring 2008) Kelly Browne, screenwriting alumna, has written the book 101 Ways to Say Thank You: Notes of Gratitude for All Occasions. www.KellyBrowne.net 

(Spring 2008) Film production student Ryan Reichenfeld has created the box[ur]shorts film festival. For information or to enter visit www.boxurshorts.com.

Julia Wright (MA in Critical Studies) has 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 won the prestigious Bill Cosby Writing Fellowship at USC

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.

 

IN THE NEWS...

Robert Townsend at the Senior Fim Awards2008 Senior Film Showcase hosted by Robert Townsend

This year's Showcase was hosted by Robert Townsend. Alumni honors were given to ... James Mathers (President of Migrant FilmWorkers, Inc.), Spiros Stathoulopoulos (Director of IFC Films feature PVC-1), and Robert Mitas (Executive Vice President of Michael Douglas's Furthur Films). (MORE...)

Hollywood Foreign Press Association Grants $66,000 to Film Program

The Department of Cinema and Television Arts Film Production Option received $60,000 for production fellowships for senior film project students for the '08-'09 academic year (MORE...)

The Arri 35mm Project Continues

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. (MORE...)

"Women Behind the Camera" Selected for Film Festivals

Prof. Alexis Krasilovsky's film, "Women Behind the Camera" has been selected for the following festivals: (MORE...)

Photo of Thelma VickroyCSUN Professor’s documentary on the life of an American Muslim comedian wins two awards at film festival

(July 30, 2008) The idea for the film, "Ahmed, Say Something Funny," was hatched about six years ago when Cal State Northridge cinema and television arts professor Thelma Vickroy caught a performance of comedian Ahmed Ahmed at the Comedy Store in Hollywood. (MORE...)

Henry Fernandez is Selected for a Princess Grace Award

(August 1, 2008) National in scope, the Princess Grace Foundation-USA is dedicated to identifying and assisting emerging talent in theater, dance, and film (MORE...)

POV: A Documentary Receives 3rd Place

(August 1, 2008) 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". (MORE...)

Film Independent has selected 40 fellows for Project: Involve

Congratulations to documentarian Jonathan Menendez [CTVA Multimedia Spring 2007 Graduate] for being selected as a participant. (MORE...)

Professor Nate Thomas Entered

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 (MORE...)