Month: January 2022

Anaheim University is excited to announce our next distinguished speaker, NVIDIA’s Senior Director of Environmental, Social, Governance Tonie Hansen, who will be speaking on sustainability issues and doing a Q & A with students and alumni on Friday, February 4, 2022 at 6:00 PM  California time. Anaheim University students and alumni are invited to join us for this special online event. Please RSVP by clicking the link below and we can send you the access information for the session. Please also review the bio below and bring your questions for the Q & A portion of the presentation. RSVP Tonie Hansen Tonie Hansen is senior director, Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) at NVIDIA. She helps to guide strategy and oversees stakeholder engagement and performance management across the company’s ESG efforts. Tonie leads NVIDIA’s board of directors and executives through the process of determining the company’s ESG priorities, and partners internally to ensure NVIDIA’s executing against those priorities and responding to stakeholder feedback and requirements. Her team is responsible for the external positioning of the company’s ESG efforts, publishing the company’s annual CSR report, preparing NVIDIA’s response to several investor surveys, and leveraging PR and social media to tell the company’s ESG story. NVIDIA’s ESG programs have received top rankings from organizations including Bloomberg Gender Equality Index, Dow Jones Sustainability Index, Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, Institutional Investor, JUST100, Newsweek’s Most Responsible Companies, and high marks from investor ratings firms such as ISS, MSCI, and Sustainalytics. Tonie received her MBA from Babson College and a B.S. in Business from University of New Haven. She lives in Arizona, is an avid birder, and spends time photographing nature in the mountains around her home. Previously an avid traveler, she can’t wait to hit the road again, with Costa Rica and a return trip to Kenya on her list.

Anaheim University is excited to announce our next Live from Hollywood Guest Speaker, Alexandre Aja, who will be doing an online Q & A from France with students and alumni on Friday, February 4, 2022 at 12:00 PM California time. Anaheim University students and alumni are invited to join us for this special online event. Please RSVP by clicking the link below and we can send you the access information for the session. Please also review the bio below and bring your questions for the Q & A portion of the presentation. RSVP Alexandre Aja Alexandre Aja is a French film writer, director and producer best known for his work in the horror genre and specifically in the US. After HIGH TENSION in 2003, he wrote, produced and directed the following films for US major studios: THE HILLS HAVE EYES, MIRRORS, PIRANHA 3D, HORNS, THE 9TH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX, CRAWL and most recently OXYGEN. He also produced MANIAC, P2, PYRAMID and THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DOOR.

Anaheim University is excited to announce our next Live from Hollywood Guest Speaker, Alejandro Brugues, who will be doing a Q & A with students and alumni on Friday, January 21, 2022 at 6:00 PM California time. Anaheim University students and alumni are invited to join us for this special online event. Please RSVP by clicking the link below and we can send you the access information for the session. Please also review the bio below and bring your questions for the Q&A portion of the presentation. RSVP Alejandro Bruges Alejandro Brugues burst onto the scene after he wrote and directed JUAN OF THE DEAD, which won the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film, and has since been an up-and-coming name in the horror space. Following that film, he directed standout pieces in the ABC’S OF DEATH 2 and NIGHTMARE CINEMA. He directed the Florida episode of Sam Raimi’s Quibi series 50 STATES OF FRIGHT and directed POOKA LIVES! for the INTO THE DARK series for Hulu and Blumhouse. He is currently finishing THE INHERITANCE for Netflix.

Anaheim University is excited to announce our next Live from Hollywood Guest Speaker, Jay Lee, who will be doing a Q & A with students and alumni on Friday, January 7, 2022 at 6:00 PM California time. Anaheim University students and alumni are invited to join us for this special online event. Please RSVP by clicking the link below and we can send you the access information for the session. Please also review the bio below and bring your questions for the Q&A portion of the presentation. RSVP Jay Lee Jay Lee recently directed and wrote an award-winning short film Shadow Glass. Jay has acted as scribbler, shooter, cutter and director on numerous feature films, short films and music videos, such as social statement films like Noon Blue Apples (Sundance Film Festival premier) to documentaries like Happy on the Ground: 8 Days at GRAMMY Camp (Nashville Film Festival premier, Revolt doc of the month)) to avant garde horror films such as Alyce Kills (Salient Media / Blooding Disgusting releasing) and The House With 100 Eyes (Artsploitation) to studio sellout cult films like Zombie Strippers! (Sony Pictures). Variety has dubbed Alyce Kills as being one of “The 15 Scariest Films” in the history of independent horror cinema. Recently he’s been acting as D.P., editor and writer helping new filmmakers find their voice for films such as Patrick Magee’s Primal Rage and Barry Jay’s Ashes. Horror film writer and director Jay Lee was born in Los Angeles and began working in the film industry when he was only 19. While he learned the ins and outs of movie making as a production assistant, location manager and other odd jobs in small productions, Lee was eventually able to begin working on his own projects, which he is often involved in nearly every aspect of, from writing and directing to the cinematography and editing. Lee’s directorial debut feature, 2002’s “New World Order,” was made with the help of his sister, producer Angela Lee. The psychological thriller, which follows a college student who gets involved in the paranormal, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival under the name “Noon Blue Apples.” Jay and Angela Lee’s next collaboration was the more straightforward horror film “The Slaughter.” Following “The Slaughter,” the Lees took a more kitschy, exploitative turn with “Zombie Strippers!,” a comedy horror with sociopolitical undertones starring adult film star Jenna Jameson as the zombie stripper who shakes up a strip club run by horror film veteran Robert Englund. He went on to direct other horror films including “Attack of the Vegan Zombies!”, “Alyce Kills”, “Zommunists: The Dead Menace”, “Deathchair: The Chair that Eats”, “Primal Rage: The Legend of Konga”, and “Ashes”. The 2021 short film “Shadow Glass”, starring Ava Hall, was written and directed by Jay Lee and produced by Shin Koyamada and Nia Lyte of Shinca Entertainment. Shadow Glass won Best Indie Film at the New York Film Awards, Best Psychological Film at the Cannes World Film Festival, and Best Indie Short at the Los Angeles Film Awards. In addition, Ava Hall won Best Actress in an Indie Film at the Los Angeles Film Awards for her role in “Shadow Glass”.