People who can greenlight your project, who can star in it, who can help it reach an audience of millions. Work the room with some of the alumni who’ve earned Cardinal-carpet treatment.
From left: Stephen Gilula, ’72, COO, Fox Searchlight Pictures; Tom Pollock, ’64, former chair, Universal, Vice-chair, American Film Institute; Micheline Chau, MBA ’76, President and COO, Lucasfilm; Samuel Dickerman, ’88, production executive, The Perfect Storm, Troy; Andre Braugher, ’84, actor, Glory, Homicide.
From left: Jack Palance, ’49 (1919-2006), actor, Shane, City Slickers; Edith Head, MA ’20 (1897-1981), costume design, Roman Holiday, The Sting.
From left: Ray Dolby, ’57, audio innovator, founder and chair, Dolby Laboratories; Caldecot Chubb, ’71, Producer, Hoffa, Eve’s Bayou; Alvy Ray Smith, MS ’66, PhD ’70, visual effects, co-founder, Pixar; Brad Krevoy, ’78, theater chain owner, Producer, Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin.
From left: Jeffrey Bewkes, MBA ’77, President and COO, Time Warner; Edward Pressman, ’65, Producer, Conan the Barbarian, Wall Street; David Brown, ’36, Producer, Jaws, Driving Miss Daisy; Jordan Kerner, ’72, Producer, Fried Green Tomatoes, Charlotte’s Web; Clark Peterson, ’88, Producer, The Watcher, Monster; Carl Rosendahl, ’79, visual effects, founded Pacific Data Images (now PDI/DreamWorks).
From left: Roger Corman, ’47, Director, “King of B Movies”; Gale Anne Hurd, ’77, Producer, The Terminator, Aliens; Richard D. Zanuck, ’56, Producer, Jaws, The Sting; Todd McCarthy, ’72, Variety movie critic.
From left: Alexander Payne, ’83, Director, screenwriter, About Schmidt, Sideways; Reed Hastings, MS ’88, Founder and CEO, Netflix; Michael Tollin, ’77, Producer, Coach Carter, Radio; Jeff Skoll, MBA ’95, Producer, Syriana, An Inconvenient Truth.
From left: Cathy Yuspa, ’92, Screenwriter, What Women Want, 13 Going On 30; Ted Danson, ’70, actor, Three Men and a Baby, Cheers; Jennifer Connelly, ’96, actor, A Beautiful Mind, Blood Diamond.
