Friday, May 13, 2005

SEE BARB IN DC

Artists for a Renewed Society and Act One present,


ARE YOU MISSING THE REVOLUTION?
HOLLYWOOD ONE YEAR AFTER THE PASSION



a discussion with Barbara R. Nicolosi,
screenwriter and Executive Director, Act One, Inc.


Topics to be covered:

- The new openness in the entertainment industry to spiritual themes. What will it look like on the screen, and will it last?

- Some cool projects in the works...

- Talking to the MSM about God-stuff. What we're doing right. What we're doing wrong.

- What Hollywood needs today from the People of God.


Saturday, May 21, 10:00am – 11:30am

St. John Parish Hall
6422 Linway Terrace
McLean, VA 22101



Ms. Nicolosi is a screenwriter and the Executive Director of Act One, Inc., a training and mentoring program for Christian writers and executives in Hollywood. She has an M.A. in Television and Film from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, and has been a script consultant on numerous film, television and video productions. She wrote The Work, a screenplay on the Spanish Civil War, for IMMI pictures of Beverly Hills. She is on the board of Catholics in Media Associates and on the Executive Committee for the City of the Angels Film Festival. She has been a judge for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Humanitas Prize, the Angelus Student Film Awards, and the Gabriel Awards. The author of a monthly column on media in the National Catholic Register, Ms. Nicolosi has appeared on CNN, CBS, PAX, EWTN,CBN, and in the New York Times, Daily Variety, USA Today and the Chicago Tribune.


A free-will offering to support the work of Act One will be taken up after the presentation. For more information, call 323-464-0815, or email Elizabeth@actoneprogram.com.

Act One, Inc., 2690 Beachwood Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90068 www.actoneprogram.com
ARS, 6203 Queens Chapel Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782 http://www.catholicartists.org/

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