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Anaheim University is excited to announce our next Live from Hollywood Guest Speakers, the filmmaking team Radio Silence (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett & Chad Villella), and filmmaker/actress Kansas Bowling who will be doing online Q & A sessions with students and alumni on Friday, February 25, 2022. Radio Silence are known for the 2022 installment in the Scream franchise and the hit film Ready or Not, and Kansas Bowling is known for her cult horror films B.C. Butcher and Cuddly Toys, as well as appearing in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.  6:00 pm – 7:00 pm PST (California time) Filmmaking Team Radio Silence 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm PST (California time) Filmmaker Kansas Bowling 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 Radio Silence & Kansas Bowling Radio Silence is the acclaimed filmmaking team of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett & Chad Villella. Known for their work that blends horror, comedy, adventure, and sci-fi, Radio Silence tackles every aspect of the filmmaking process from development to writing, directing, and producing on set. Most recently, Radio Silence directed and executive produced the next installment of the SCREAM franchise for Spyglass Media Group and Paramount Pictures. With the new Scream installment, Radio Silence hoped to create a modern-day love letter to the original film that would simultaneously honor Wes Craven and introduce a new generation to a modern, meta genre of horror, much in the same way the original Scream did for audiences in the ’90s. Previously, they helmed the hit horror comedy READY OR NOT (2019), starring Samara Weaving, Adam Brody and Andie MacDowell, for Searchlight Pictures with Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett directing and Villella executive producing alongside Vinson Films and Mythology Entertainment. Other feature works include SOUTHBOUND (2016) for The Orchard/1091, DEVIL’S DUE (2014) for 20th Century Studios and V/H/S (2012) for Magnolia. Kansas Bowling is a filmmaker and writer living in Nevada. She made her first feature film “B.C. Butcher”, a prehistoric slasher film starring Kato Kaelin, when she was 17. Her second feature film “Cuddly Toys”, a mondo film about teenage girls in the style of “Faces of Death”, premiered at New York’s New People’s Cinema Club and will have a wide release in May. Bowling has directed around 30 music videos featuring artists such as Iggy Pop and has acted in such films as Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood” and Glenn Danzig’s “Verotika”. She is currently filming her third feature about Jane Doe cases. .

Anaheim University Ferrotec Akira Yamamura Scholarship 2 students can earn a full scholarship towards an Anaheim University online Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program Applicants can apply the scholarship to 1 of these 3 online degree programs: Online International MBA Online MBA in Global Sustainable Management Online Master of Entrepreneurship Applicants must meet Anaheim University’s MBA entrance requirements. Applicants must express an interest in being considered for future employment by Ferrotec. However, being awarded a scholarship does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made to the scholarship recipient. Applicants with Heat Transfer, Physics, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, International Business / bilingual (English + 1 other language) language skills/experience will be given preferential consideration. Scholarships will be awarded on a merit basis based on the applicant’s qualifications. Applicants must maintain standards set forth by the Scholarship Committee and/or the University’s administration in order to remain in good standing and continue to receive the scholarship funding throughout the remainder of their program. Scholarship recipients are expected to maintain a minimum of a B average at all times and complete each course with a minimum of a 3.0 grade. Scholarship recipients must also remain continuously enrolled from the commencement of their program through graduation. Skipped term fees are not included in the scholarship and skipped terms are only allowed with special permission from the University’s Dean. Scholarship Application Requirements Scholarship Applicants must submit: – standard application materials required for an Anaheim University online MBA or Master of Entrepreneurship program. Click here for a list of program entrance requirements. – a 1,000 word essay outlining: How you feel the Anaheim University degree will benefit you Why you would like to be considered for possible employment by Ferrotec upon graduation Your area of academic and professional specialization To Apply: Click here to complete the online application form. E-mail 1,000-word scholarship application essay to ausupport @ anaheim.edu Application Deadline March 20, 2022 Scholarship Recipients Announced April 15, 2022: Applications are being reviewed and will be announced within 10 business days MBA Program Start Date May 9, 2022 About Ferrotec Founded in 1980, Ferrotec is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan with locations in Japan, U.S.A., China, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, and Russia. Ferrotec is a diversified technology company with a worldwide presence in a broad array of end products, manufacturing systems, and industries. Ferrotec provides its customers with advanced material, component, and assembly solutions that make their products work better, more precisely, and more reliably. Founded on a technology core of Ferrofluid magnetic liquid and Ferrofluidic® sealing products, the company and its product portfolio have grown to meet the evolving needs of its customers. Ferrotec is now a global enterprise characterized by substantial intercompany cooperation in research, manufacturing and marketing of products. The Ferrotec Group contributes to society as a manufacturer, and a company whose progress brings joy to its customers, shareholders, employees, business partners, the community, and all of its stakeholders. Ferrotec has grown to what it is today through the pioneering and innovative spirit of its President and Representative Director Dr. Akira Yamamura About Dr. Akira Yamamura Dr. Akira Yamamura, who is an Executive Advisory Board member of Anaheim University, established Ferrotec with two people in 1980. At the time, he was president of the Japanese subsidiary of Ferrofluidics Corporation, after joining the company as an engineer. In 1987, he led a management buy-out of the company and then in 1999 acquired the former parent company. Dr. Yamamura has grown Ferrotec to become one of the most important companies in the electronics industry, with annual revenue growing to approximately US$680 million, 27 subsidiaries and more than 5,400 employees in Japan, the US, Europe and Asia. The original business of the company was distributing Vacuum Feedthrough, which applies Ferrofluid, magnetic field. Vacuum Feed-through is a key component to shield the vacuum environment, and utilized in semiconductor equipment, single crystal silicon ingot grower, FPD equipment, and thin film equipment for photovoltaic application. In 2012, Dr. Akira Yamamura was ranked #24 in Ernst & Young’s “World Entrepreneur of the Year” awards. Click here to learn more about Ferrotec

Anaheim University is excited to announce our next Live from Hollywood Guest Speakers, Writers/Directors Joe Dante & Jennifer Reeder, who will be doing online Q & A sessions with students and alumni on Friday, February 18, 2022. Joe Dante is an award–winning writer and director who is known for Gremlins, Gremlins 2, Innerspace and The Howling and Jennifer Reeder was named by award-winning director Bong Joon-Ho (Parasite) as a filmmaker to watch in the 2020s and has been credited as one of the most influential female horror directors. 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm PST (California time) Writer & Director Joe Dante 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm PST (California time) Writer & Director Jennifer Reeder 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 Joe Dante & Jennifer Reeder Joe Dante is a lifelong film buff who turned his obsession into a career. He got his start cutting trailers for Roger Corman and later directed the hit movie Gremlins, as well as Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Innerspace and Small Soldiers for producer Steven Spielberg. His feature films include The Howling, Piranha, Matinee, The ‘burbs , Looney Tunes Back in Action, The Hole (first winner of the 3D Persol Award at the Venice Film Festival) and the zom-com Burying the Ex. His TV directing work includes: Police Squad, Amazing Stories, the HBO film The Second Civil War, the Masters of Horror titles Homecoming and The Screwfly Solution, and episodes of Eerie, Indiana, CSI: NY, Hawaii 5-0, Witches of East End, Legends of Tomorrow and Salem. His most recent big screen credit is an episode of the anthology film Nightmare Cinema. Joe is also the frequent co-host of Trailers From Hell’s official podcast, The Movies That Made Me, available everywhere podcasts are streamed and downloaded! Jennifer Reeder was recently named by Bong Joon Ho (Parasite) as a filmmaker to watch in the 2020s and has been credited as one of most influential female horror directors. She constructs personal fiction films about relationships, trauma and coping. Her award-winning narratives are innovative and borrow from a range of forms including after school specials, amateur music videos and magical realism. These films have shown consistently around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival, The Berlin Film Festival, The Tribeca Film Festival, The Rotterdam Film Festival, The London Film Festival, SXSW, The Venice Biennale and The Whitney Biennial. Her awards include several that have qualified her films for Oscar nomination. She won a Creative Capital Grant in Moving Image in 2015, short film funding from Rooftop/Adrienne Shelly Foundation in 2016 and short film funding from the Hamburg Film Fund in 2016. She won a USA Fellowship for 2021. She was a Herb Alpert Film Award nominee in 2018 and 2020. She won a 2018/19 scriptwriting award from SFFIM/Rainin Foundation. She was the 2019 recipient of the Alpert Film Award residency at the MacDowell Colony. Her most recent film, Knives and Skin was theatrically released in France in November 2019 through UFO and in the US in December 2019 through IFC Midnight. She recently completed a section of V/H/S 94, a horror anthology from Shudder, which will premiere at Fantastic Fest before launching off the Shudder platform. She is currently in post-production with a new feature film called Night’s End also from Shudder. She is currently in pre-production for a new feature length film called PERPETRATOR which is being produced by 30West, Divide&Conquer and WTFilms.

Anaheim University is excited to announce our next Live from Hollywood Guest Speakers, Writer, Director & Producer John Callas & Director, Actor, Screenwriter and Cinematographer Patrick Brice, who will be doing online Q  & A sessions with students and alumni on Friday, February 11, 2022. John Callas is an award–winning writer, director & producer who has helped create over 100 titles and Patrick Brice’s recent Netflix feature was named one of Variety’s “Best Horror Films of 2021″! 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm PST (California time) Writer, Director & Producer John Callas 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm PST (California time) Director, Actor, Screenwriter and Cinematographer Patrick Brice 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 John Callas & Patrick Brice John Callas is a veteran writer/director/producer in the entertainment business. His experience ranges from the worldwide release of feature films to numerous motion picture trailers, national and international commercials, live action title sequences, laser disc projects, a documentary shot on location in Russia, as well as having been the Worldwide VP for The Walt Disney Company while working at a large post production facility. John wrote and directed the feature film “No Solicitors” starring Eric Roberts and has adapted NY Times bestselling author, William H. LaBarge’s book, “Lightning Strikes Twice.” John is also a published author which includes: SECRETS, WHEN THE RAIN STOPS, CHRISTMAS VOICES, NO SOLICITORS, AND FIRST TIME PARENTS SURVIVAL GUIDE TO UNNECESSARY AND WILD SPENDING. John’s prowess can be seen on live action teasers for Ransom, Dennis The Menace, Body Of Evidence, The Golden Child, Spaceballs, The Glass Menagerie, Cocoon II, Poltergeist III, Betrayed, My Girl, Glenngarry Glenn Ross, As Well As Title Sequences For The Two Jakes and A Few Good Men and a promotional film for an amusement ride from Showscan. John also directed an award-winning short film THE WHITE GORILLA. While creating live action teasers for feature films, John had the opportunity to work with notable actors including Mel Gibson, Walter Matthau, Jack Nicholson, Madonna, Eddie Murphy and Mel Brooks. In addition to working on feature film teasers, his work can be seen in projects for HBO, The Disney Channel, Show Time, the Broadway Play Phantom Of The Opera and the 1993 redesigned TRISTAR LOGO. John’s extensive background also includes over 200 commercials for such clients as Kellogg’s, Dodge, Sunkist, Sprite, Toyota, Fuji, Volkswagen, Honda, McDonalds, Mazda, Minolta, Jedi Merchandising, Kraft, Jordache, Sea World, Givenchy and Sonassage with celebrity George Burns and industrial projects for Corporations including Vidal Sassoon, Salomon North America, Nissan and The Kao Corporation Of Japan. John’s television experience includes directing a 14-week series entitled Potentials, with guests Buckminster Fuller, Norman Cousins, Ray Bradbury, Gene Roddenberry, Timothy Leary and others. He also directed 80 segments for Bobby’s World, which has been rated the #1 show on Fox 11 Television in its time slot; garnering John an Emmy nomination. A multi-faceted filmmaker, John’s work can be seen in music videos for Glenn Frey Of The Eagles, Bill Wyman Of The Rolling Stones, Jefferson Starship, Sammy Hagar, Rick Springfield, Doobie Brothers, Styx and more. John has been recognized with: An EMMY nomination for Bobby’s World, THE NEW YORK CRITICS CHOICE AWARD for Lone Wolf, BEST FEATURE at Fright Night Festival & BEST DIRECTOR at Scar A Con festival for No Solicitors – Several awards for his short THE WHITE GORILLA, A CLIO and BELDING for his work on the Sunkist campaign, BEST OF THE WEST for directorial work on a one-woman show, and an MTV AWARD FOR BEST CONCEPT for Glen Frey’s Smuggler’s Blues. John holds a Master Degree from Occidental College, and is a member of The Directors Guild of America. Patrick Brice was born and raised in Grass Valley, California. He graduated with a BFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) School of Film & Video. CREEP, his first feature-film as director/writer/actor (co-starring Mark Duplass) was produced by Blumhouse Productions, premiered at SXSW 2014 and was released through Netflix. His second feature as director/writer, THE OVERNIGHT (with Adam Scott, Taylor Schilling and Jason Schwartzman) premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically by The Orchard. He wrote and directed CREEP 2 starring Duplass and Desiree Akhavan which was released in 2017 through Netflix. His fourth feature, CORPORATE ANIMALS starring Ed Helms and Demi Moore, premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically by Screen Media Films. His latest film is THERE’S SOMEONE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE, an original feature for Netflix produced by Shawn Levy and James Wan, was named one of Variety’s “Best Horror Films of 2021” and spent its debut week as the #1 film on Netflix. His commercial work includes spots for clients Blizzard/Activision, Traeger Grills and Lyft. He is based in Los Angeles.

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”.

Anaheim University is excited to announce Distinguished Speaker, Mitsubishi Electric U.S. President Michael Corbo, who will be addressing students and alumni on Friday, November 12, 2021 at 5:00 PM California time. He will be speaking on “35 years of working with and for Mitsubishi Electric: Some Family, Some Business and Lessons learned along the way”. 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 Michael Corbo Michael Corbo is President and Chief Executive Officer at Mitsubishi Electric US, Inc., in Cypress, California. An accomplished business executive with 35 years of experience in global operations, sales, marketing and service, he currently oversees a company division comprised of 2,900 employees in more than 50 locations throughout North America. Corbo is also responsible for the Americas Corporate office, which provides strategic and operational services to North American group companies and factories that manufacture a diverse range of building solutions, transportation and energy products. Since joining Mitsubishi Electric in 1986, Corbo has helped establish the company as a recognized leader in product quality and reliability. Corbo began his career as the first sales representative for Mitsubishi Electric’s newly established U.S. Elevator & Escalator Division. From 1986 to 1990, he managed the division’s San Francisco branch office, and was instrumental in the sale of the first spiral escalators in North America. Corbo assumed complete responsibility for the U.S Elevator & Escalator Division in 1999 when he became General Manager and Vice President. In April 2018, he was promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and in 2021 became President and Chief Executive Officer in the U.S. Additionally, he serves as member of the Board of Directors of the Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation, which focuses on empowering youth with disabilities to lead productive lives. Corbo holds a BA in business administration from Ohio University and resides in Mission Viejo, California with his wife and family.

Anaheim University is excited to announce Distinguished Speaker Leah Edwards, Partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures, will be addressing students and alumni on Friday, October 1, 2021 at 5:00 PM California time. She will be speaking on Technology Trends in 2021. 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 Leah Edwards Edwards is a Partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures with a focus on US investments. Pegasus Tech Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley offering intellectual and financial capital to exceptional emerging technology companies around the world. In addition to a more traditional investment approach Pegasus offers a unique Venture Capital-as-a-Service (VCaaS) model for large global corporations that wish to partner with cutting-edge technology startups. Leah Edwards started her career in management consulting then launched new products for Intuit, Oracle and Taligent, a joint-venture of Apple and IBM. She then joined the founding team of an enterprise SaaS company called Post Communications, which was acquired by Netcentives within two years for $380 million. After advising and serving in interim leadership roles for other startups that were acquired by major companies including the US Green Business Council and SolarCity, she co-founded another marketing technology company, Overstat, which was purchased by Tealeaf Technology (now IBM). Leah’s deep involvement in Higher Education began in 2012 when she became the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is an active angel investor and serves on the Board of NameCoach, which serves both Higher Education and Enterprise markets. In addition to being a Lecturer for UC Berkeley’s Engineering Department, Leah regularly conducts workshops for visiting corporate innovation teams and foreign investors, and she serves as a mentor in several Silicon Valley accelerator programs. Leah holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA and Certificate of Public Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Anaheim University is excited to announce that we will be hosting Vice President of Warner Bros, Adam Steinman, Friday, September 17th from 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm California time. We invite Anaheim University students and alumni 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 Adam Steinman: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaczGVDTqWY-l4yDabxnwOm3NmV_3wF7JG49oNzIQeuuqJSw/viewform Adam Steinman served as Vice President, Non-Scripted International Development & Sales from October 2010 until October 2016 and in November 2016 was promoted to Vice President, Creative, Format, Development & Sales at Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP), where scripted formats have been added to his remit. In this position, Steinman is charged with overseeing the adaptation, development, and sale of programming based on formats and concepts developed from within the International Television Production Group and international 3rd party producers. He is also responsible for helping WBITVP identify producers and broadcasters to partner with, as well as acquiring formats to be exploited internationally. During his WB tenure, Steinman has played an integral role in the development, acquisition, and international roll out of “Impractical Jokers,” “The Bachelor,” and “Bachelorette,” “Hello Goodbye,” “America’s Best Dance Crew,” “Who Do You Think You Are?,” “First Dates,” “Back In Time For Dinner,” “The Gift,” “Ellen’s Game Of Games,” “Little Big Shots”, and “True Story” for NBC. In 2019, Steinman identified and acquired the record-breaking Korean hit series, Sky Castle, for WBTV and Berlanti Productions which was most recently being adapted at NBC. In 2020, he identified a hit Israeli drama which was acquired by WBITVP for multiple European territories. Steinman was instrumental in facilitating the CJENM/Warner Horizon first-look unscripted deal, announced in October 2020. That same year he was also thrilled to play a role in in identifying the Nippon format, MUTE IT!. This physical gameshow is now part of a multi-territory partnership with WBITVP. In March 2021 the local adaptation launched impressively in Holland on SBS6. On the scripted side, he has been responsible for identifying two new hit Korean dramas now optioned at WBTV. In 2020, he acquired the rights to a French-Canadian comedy now being developed by WB in Belgium, and a short-form digital series from Canada, which became a long-form ratings hit in 2021 from WB Sweden for Discovery +. For WB, he oversees the successful WB/CBC Canada Format Incubator which produced the series, Under New Management with two seasons in 2018. In 2020, the second WB/CBC format incubator resulted in the competition reality format, YOU GOT THIS!. Quickly commissioned to series by TVNZ in New Zealand receiving top ratings, it will soon be adapted as a primetime series in Europe. He was instrumental in managing the multi-year TV Asahi co-development deal, and also helped develop and adapt the RTE Format Farm winner, “The Hit”, which sold to seven territories including Netherlands, China, Russia, and Scandinavia

Anaheim University is excited to announce that we will be hosting Producer and Film Consultant, Kathryn Arnold, Friday, September 24th from 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm California time. She will be speaking on Global Film and the Changing Film-Value Chain Sales and Markets Entrepreneurs and Investors in the Film Industry We welcome Anaheim University students and alumni 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. Click here to RSVP for Kathryn Arnold: Professional Experience Kathryn Arnold has over 20 years of hands on experience in the film development, production, finance and distribution arenas. Having produced and/or directed over 6 feature films, Live streaming television, dozens of commercials, corporate videos and events, as well as working in both the studio and independent film environment in film and television, Ms. Arnold understands the inner workings of the entertainment industry, its hiring practices, business development, financing/distribution and the economic complexities and nuances involved in a world that very few understand. Working closely with each client, she brings the full benefit of this valuable experience to bear on the client. Legal Experience & Services Ms. Arnold has been retained as an expert witness and consultant on over 6 dozen cases, with plaintiffs and defendants, such as producers, production companies, studios, media companies, investors, actors, writers, directors, on-air personalities, spokespersons, production crew, and other entertainment related personnel. She has provided expert testimony, reporting, consultation, financial forecasting and referrals for clients on cases regarding economic damage and lost wages from copyright infringement, breach of contract, film and television financing, sales and distribution, disfigurement, personal injury, wrongful death, and economic downturn. Ms. Arnold has prepared expert reports and provided deposition and trial testimony in matters before state and federal courts and in arbitration. Clients include Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Jackson Walker; Jenner & Block, Haynes & Boone; Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Dummit, Buchholz & Trapp; Hosp, Gilbert, Bergsten & Hough among others. BIO Kathryn Arnold’s career has straddled the Studio system and Independent Film worlds, as well as Corporate Sponsorship Programs. Starting out as an assistant at ICM Talent Partners and then as a script reader for the William Morris Agency, Arnold learned the inner workings of the talent agency system and the processes of managing and packaging talent and scripted material for motion pictures and television. She then became an executive at The Maltese Companies, where she developed and produced television and feature projects financed by Wall Street ad agencies. She oversaw the production of “Pound Puppies”;, an animated feature produced with Kushner Locke, and was an Associate Producer on “Manhunt Live”;, a reality-based crime show for ABC. At The Guber-Peters Entertainment Co. Ms. Arnold was involved in the development of feature films and television shows, with the company that produced “Rain Man” and “Batman.” She was the Assoc. Producer on; “Pizza Man” written and directed by Jonathan Lawton of “Pretty Woman” fame, and procured the financing and co-produced “The Webers & Fifteen Minutes” with Jennifer Tilly and David Arquette. Arnold then began her partnership with Louis Venosta. Venosta wrote and co-produced the Mel Gibson romantic comedy, “Bird on a Wire” as well as the Tri-Star release “The Last Dragon.” Their company Secondary Modern Motion Pictures was based at Universal studios where they developed projects for Venosta to write and produce. Arnold was directly involved in the writing of both studio and independent feature scripts with Venosta. They launched Venosta’s directing career, with the highly acclaimed featurette “The Coriolis Effect” which won the 1994 Venice Film Festival in its category. Arnold went on to produce “Nevada” starring Amy Brenneman, Gabrielle Anwar, Kirstie Alley and Angus Macfadyen, and as head of Production at Cineville Films, Inc, was the Executive Producer on “Façade” starring Eric Roberts and Angus Macfadyen, and “The Velocity of Gary” with Vincent D’Onofrio, Salma Hayek, Thomas Jane, and Ethan Hawke among many others. She was instrumental in launching Cineville International’s foreign sales division in Cannes of 1997, and handled financing, foreign and domestic sales, and acquisitions, in addition to packaging, development and production responsibilities for Cineville’s slate of pictures. Arnold then produced “Cowboys and Angels” starring Adam Trese, Mia Kirshner and Radha Mitchell, which won the Crystal Heart Award. The highlight of 2000 was writing and directing “Shining Stars: The Official Story of Earth, Wind & Fire,” a documentary film based on the electric and legendary band, released on DVD and Television Internationally in 2001. Arnold went on to be a consultant and then Head of Production at Monte Cristo Entertainment, an international sales and production company, which has a library of over 50 films. At Monte Cristo, Arnold oversaw script development, talent packaging, co-production/financing agreements, and US and international distribution deals in conjunction with the Directors of the Company. Arnold worked with Internet Studios, an online film sales company, and raised close to US $500,000 in a 6-week period for the Sundance Online Film Festival. She then went on to work with Infinnity, Inc, producing infomercials, corporate videos and marketing events for National Corporations. And woven in through that period, Arnold produced and production managed commercials for well-known brands such as Certs. Arnold produced the live streaming show Secrets of the Red Carpet: Style From the Inside Out, on www.empowerme.tv/secrets, which reached the top of the Itunes charts and nominated for 2 Streamy Awards in its first season and maintained its top 5 status in Fashion and Arts during its tenure. Currently Arnold consults with several investment/production companies on international sales, financing and packaging film and television projects. She has written a series of entertainment industry-related articles and have served as an entertainment media consultant to Bloomberg News, MSNBC, CCTV, NPR, and Associated Press International, NPR, The Market on the topics of entertainment standard and practices and business development. Arnold graduated from UCLA with a BA in Economics, speaks French,