Movie Mentors

Tina Huang is an actor and creative known for her work on Rizzoli & Isles, Arrow, Grey's Anatomy, The Bold and the Beautiful, Shameless, The Office, Scandal, Days of Our Lives, CSI, Law & Order, Kroll Show & more. 

Todd Fjelsted is the Emmy-winning production designer of GLOW, Looking, Helstrom, Now Apocalypse, Kaboom, The Adderall Diaries, and the upcoming series First Ladies. 

James V. Hart is the screenwriter behind some of our most beloved films including Hook, Dracula, Contact, Muppet Treasure Island, Tuck Everlasting, Crossbones, The Hot Zone, August Rush and more.

Susan Shopmaker is the Artios Award-winning casting director behind Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Afterschool, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Goat, James White, Enchanted, Beach Rats, Random Acts of Flyness & more.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is the Emmy-nominated director of American Horror Story, Glee, Hunters, Me & Earl & the Dying Girl, The Current War, Red Band Society, Chambers, and The Town that Dreaded Sundown.

Dan Jinks is the Oscar-winning producer of American Beauty, Milk, Big Fish, Pushing Daisies, The Bone Collector, Nothing to Lose & more.

Leigh Kilton-Smith is a master acting teacher and Hollywood's go-to on-set coach working with Jennifer Aniston, Sam Rockwell, Diane Lane, Gabrielle Union, John Leguizamo, Zac Efron, and directors like Alfonso Cuarón, Joss Whedon, Jon Favreau, & Guy Ritchie.

Mark Goldblatt is the Oscar-nominated editor of Terminator 1 & 2, Starship Troopers, X-Men: Last Stand, Showgirls, True Lies, Piranha, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys 2, Rise of the Planet of the Apes & more.

Wendy Calhoun is the Peabody award-winning writer and producer of such shows as Empire, Nashville, Hell's Kitchen, Justified, Station 19, Life, Prodigal Son & more.

Allan Arkush is the Emmy-winning director / producer of over 200 episodes of television including: Nashville, Heroes, CSI, Ally McBeal, Fame, Crossing Jordan, Switched at Birth, The Temptations, St. Elsewhere & many more. 

Mollye Asher is the Oscar-winning producer of such indie hits as The Rider (Cannes), Fort Tilden (SXSW), Songs My Brothers Taught Me (Sundance), Swallow (Tribeca), and the upcoming film Nomadland starring Frances McDormand.

Frank Coraci is the director of such comedy hits as The Waterboy, The Wedding Singer, Click, Zookeeper, Here Comes the Boom, Around the World in 80 Days, Blended, The Ridiculous 6, and more.