About Us
Alumni
Patricia Cardoso
- 1996 Angelus Winner “The Water Carrier”
- 1996 Student Academy Award Winner “The Water Carrier”
- 2002 Sundance Film Festival “Real Women Have Curves”
- 2010 Director “Nappily Ever After” - starring Halle Barry
"Real Women Have Curves is enormously entertaining for moviegoers of any age."
Roger Ebert - Chicago-Sun Times
"But what enlivens this film, beyond the astute direction of Cardoso and beautifully detailed performances by all of the actors, is a note of defiance over social dictates."
Kirk Honeycutt - Hollywood Reporter
Tony Bui
- 1996 Angelus Winner “Yellow Lotus”
- 1999 Sundance Film Festival “Three Seasons” Grand Jury Prize Winner & Best Cinematography
- 2001 Producer & Screenwriter “Green Dragon” starring Patrick Swazye
"With sweeping directorial vision and a powerful poetic narrative, Tony Bui has created an enormously impressive feature debut about the 'new' Vietnam."
Geoffrey Gilmore - on "Three Seasons"
1999 Sundance Film Festival Website
Greg Marcks
- 2001 Angelus Winner "Lector"
- 2001 Student Academy Award Winner "Lector"
- 2002 Director & Screenwriter "11:14" Executive Producer, featuring Academy Award winner Hillary Swank
- 2008 Director "The Gift" w/ Ving Rhames
"...first time writer-director Greg Marcks will begin production on his Memento-like drama 11:14 in July, with Oscar winner Hilary Swank and Rachael Leigh Cook set to star. (Swank will Executive Produce with Beau Flynn producing). The $3 million indie, which begins with a body flying off a bridge into a moving car and then is told in flashbacks, centers on four different plotlines all taking place around the same time in a onestoplight town. Pretty Swank indeed."
Rebecca Ascher-Walsh - Entertainment Magazine/ReelWorld
Sabrina Dhawan
- 2001 Angelus Winner “Saanjh-As Night Falls”
- 2001 Screenwriter “Monsoon Wedding” Directed by Mira Nair
- 2001 Venice Film Festival “Monsoon Wedding” Golden Lion Award - Best Film
- 2002 Writer 11-09-01 September 11”
"Monsoon Wedding is one of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human nature."
Roger Ebert - Chicago-Sun Times
"Monsoon Wedding works as a comedy, a melodrama, a giddy romance and a dance film. It's a wonder to behold."
Richard Roeper - Ebert & Roeper
Hilla Medalia
- 2004 Angelus Winner "Daughters of Abraham"
- 2005 Senior Producer "39 Pounds of Love"
- 2007 Director "To Die in Jerusalem"
- 2008 Director "After the Storm"
Barbara Stepansky
- 2006 Angelus Winner "The Trojan Cow"
- 2008 Director/Writer "Hurt"
- 2008 Director "Hysteria"
Jessica Sharzer
- 2002 Angelus Winner “Wormhole”
- 2004 Sundance Film Festival “Speak”
Barbara Schock
- 1999 Angelus Winner “My Mother Dreams Satans Disciples in New York”
- 1999 Academy Award winner “ My Mother Dreams Satans Disciples in New York”
Sejong Park
- 2004 Angelus Outstanding Animation Winner “Birthday Boy”
- 2005 Academy Award Nominee “Birthday Boy”
Jason Ensler
- 1997 Angelus finalist - "Dust and Other Particles of Attraction"
- Director - "Martha, Inc," starring Cybil Shepard
- Director - "Grilled," starring Ray Romano
Jason Ensler has also directed episodes of "Scrubs," "Ed," and "West Wing."
Sean Overbeeke
- 2005 Triumph of the Human Spirit Award Winner for “Christmas Wish List”
- 2006 Student Academy Award Gold Winner
Ham Tran
- 2003 Honorable Mention “The Anniversary”
- 2006 “Journey from the Fall” premiered at Sundance

