Happy Holidays from Inner-City Filmmakers

Some highlights from 2015. It was a very good year!

Top Photos L-R: (1) Craig Zobel, Director, “Z is for Zachariah”, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, with ICF alumni who were sponsored to attend Sundance by Creative Artists Agency. (2) Luigi Ventura (ICF’06), is a member of IATSE Local 600 and works on the TV series, “Aquarius”, starring David Duchovny. (3) Chrisko Morales (ICF’07), is an EMMY Award Winning 3D Camera Technician. He worked with the camera crew on “Southpaw”, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and on “Concussion”, starring Will Smith.

Middle Photos L-R: (1) Enrique Garcia (ICF’12), at the Maine Media Workshop. He is currently working as a camera PA on the TV Series, “Aquarius”.

(2) The ICF Class of 2015 prior to commencement, which was held in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, courtesy of AMPAS. (3) Chris Carmona (ICF’14) was one of six AMPAS “TEAM OSCAR®” 2015 video competition winners selected by Channing Tatum and the producers of the 2015 Academy Awards, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, which was announced on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Justin Floyd (ICF’13) was also a “TEAM OSCAR” winner.

Bottom Photos L-R: (1) F. Gary Gray, Director, “Straight Outta Compton”, met with ICF alumni at CAA. (2) Miguel Orozco’s film, “A Fool’s Gold” was one of the three Friars Charitable Foundation Martin Roth Student Screenwriting Scholarship winners, which also included Johnathan Gutierrez, “Father Time” and Richard De Angelis, “Bully”. (3) Fred Heinrich and Stephania Lipner, ICF Founders, with Summer Program Commencement Host Reginald Hudlin, Co-Producer of the 2016 Oscars® and the first President of Entertainment for B.E.T. Networks. Reginald is a Writer, Producer, Director, and received a Best Picture nomination from AMPAS for producing Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained”. Special Guest Panelists include - Joe Lazarov, Director | Producer, “Gossip Girl”; Terrence “J” Jenkins, Actor, Philanthropist, Author and Co-Anchor of the popular pop culture entertainment news show, E! News. His box office hits include “Think Like a Man and “Think Like a Man Too”; and, Cory Hardrict, Actor, “American Sniper”.

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