Guest Blogs
Tom Benedek wrote the screenplays for Cocoon, Free Willy, Zeus and Roxanne, The Adventures of Pinocchio and other films. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he received a Bachelors Degree with Individual Concentration in Film mentored by the photographer Jerome Liebling.
He studied photography with the painter Jerrold Maddox at Amherst College, art history at the Ecole du Louvre, film history, cinematography, directing, film aesthetics and structure (with the film theoretician Noel Burch) at L’Institut de Formation Cinematographique in Paris and is a graduate of the director’s program at the American Film Institute.
He has written and rewritten screenplays for Robert Zemeckis, Lawrence Kasdan, Lili Fini Zanuck & Richard Zanuck, David Brown, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Sydney Pollack, Richard Rush, Harold Ramis, Lauren Schuler Donner & Richard Donner, Ray Stark, Brian Grazer, Working Title, Jersey Film, Chris Blackwell and many others. He is a member of Writers Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
He teaches screenwriting at the University of Southern California and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where he is a James Gindin Visiting Artist.
Roberta Marie Munroe is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, entrepreneur, international film festival programmer, and consultant. From 2001-2006, she programmed short films at The Sundance Film Festival. Her new book "How Not To Make A Short Film, Secrets From a Sundance Programmer" (Hyperion) is out this month. www.robertamunroe.com
Howard Rosenberg is the Pulitzer Prize-winning former television critic for the Los Angeles Times, where his column was distributed nationally and read by decision makers in the media for 25 years. He now writes a monthly column on news media for The Times and teaches at the University of Southern California in both the Annenberg School of Communication and the School of Cinematic Arts. His latest book, written with Charles S. Feldman, is “No Time to Think: The Menace of Media Speed and the 24-hour News Cycle.”
