Script to Screen on the Red Carpet: 2017 WGA
- Sunday, February 19, 2017 / 7:00 PM (PST)
- Beverly Hills
UCSB Script to Screen, hosted by Matt Ryan, was invited to the 2017 Writers Guild Awards and 2017 WGA Beyond Words. The interviews included many Oscar nominees.
Damien Chazelle – Writer/Director, La La Land, WGA Best Original Screenplay Nominee and Academy Award® Nominee for Best Original Screenplay and Best Director
Barry Jenkins – Writer/Director, Moonlight, WGA Best Original Screenplay Winner and Academy Award® Nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director
Eric Heisserer – Screenwriter, Arrival, WGA Best Adapted Screenplay Winner and Academy Award® Nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay
Allison Schroeder – Screenwriter, Hidden Figures, WGA Best Original Screenplay Nominee and Academy Award® Nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay
Jeff Nichols – Writer/Director, Loving, WGA Best Original Screenplay Nominee
Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick – Screenwriters, Deadpool, WGA Best Adapted Screenplay Nominees
Noah Harpster – Screenwriter, Transparent and Actor, One Mississippi
John Rothman – Actor, One Mississippi
Jeff Goldblum – Actor
Mykelti Williamson – Actor, Fences
Todd Black – Producer, Fences
Gil Birmingham – Actor, Hell or High Water
William H. Macy – Actor
Richard Curtis – Writer/Director, Love Actually and Screenwriter, Notting Hill
James Woods – Actor
Oliver Stone – Director
Aaron Sorkin – Screenwriter, The Social Network
Biographies
Matthew Ryan, Pollock Theater Director
Matthew Ryan is Director of the Pollock Theater where he pioneered the Pollock Theater Internship, which professionalizes students by developing production skills with hands-on experience. Ryan created and hosts the Script to Screen series, which has welcomed prestigious guests like Oscar® winning screenwriter John Ridley for 12 Years a Slave and Oscar® winning screenwriter Alan Ball for American Beauty.
Matthew Ryan began his career as a video librarian at the legendary Kaufman Astoria Studios. He became Associate Producer for Fox Movietone Newsreels putting together video packages for news stories. As Events Manager at New York University’s Cantor Film Center, he produced a series of film programs that included evenings with Martin Scorsese, Tim Robbins and Alec Baldwin. In 2008, he received an MFA in Screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University. His primary writing focus is science fiction and comedy.
UCSB Script to Screen is sponsored by the department of Film and Media Studies, The Carsey-Wolf Center, and The Scott Frank Fund for Screenwriting. It is hosted and executive-produced by the Pollock Theater Director, Matt Ryan, and produced by the Pollock Theater student staff.