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Alum Nick Acosta Wins Big At Film Fest!

Film grad Nick Acosta’s short film Riddance, starring True Blood‘s Jim Parrack won Best Short Film Grand Jury, Best Actor Grand Jury and Best Actress Audience Choice at The Playhouse West Film Festival. Another film he entered Friend…

Recording Alum Jaziel Sommers Working at Will Smith’s Recording Studio

Los Angeles Film School Recording Arts alum Jaziel Sommers has been seeing a lot of success as of late, and he’s only been a graduate of the program for five months. The first month out of the program he landed an internship at Will Smith’s…

Film Alums & Students Working on “Hollywood Hitmen”

Los Angeles Film School grads Chris Boulos, Peter Mares, and student Matthew Purkis are working on a new web series titled Hollywood Hitmen a comedy starring Enver Gjokaj, Dichen Lachman, Max Osinski,Jessy Schram, Oded Fehr, and Cerina Vincent.…

Grads Working On Film Starring Al Pacino

Photo via Just Jared Some of our film grads have been working in the art department on Imagine, a feature film starring Al Pacino and Jennifer Garner. They’ve been shooting at the Ivar theater the past few days. Congratulations to: Candace…

Film Alum Jonathan Drake’s “Gamer Age” Documentary Feature

Film Alum Jonathan Drake has been working on his feature film documentary Game Age for the past four years, and is now in the running to have it screened at the ArcLight Hollywood this coming October. Gamer Age documents the gaming culture with…

ANIMATION GRAD NEIKO NAGY’S COMPOSITING WORK ON “42”, “WOLVERINE” AND OTHER FEATURE FILMS

Computer Animation grad Neiko Nagy currently works at Shade VFX, the visual effects company with partners such as DreamWorks, Sony, Fox, Disney, and Universal, as a compositor and 2D artist. Neiko starting working there right before graduation,…
Paula Joseph

Recording Alum Paula Joseph’s Music and Production Company

"Find a way or make one; self-made or never made," is a quote from Orison Swett Marden and accurately describes Los Angeles Recording School alum Paula Joseph, who graduated back in September of 2011 and has since founded her own production…

Recording Alum Ellie Vainshtok’s Nickelodeon Show Wins An Emmy

Los Angeles Recording School grad Ellie Vainshtok is the Music Coordinator for a Nick Jr. show called The Fresh Beat Band, which recently won a 2013 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition! Having worked…

Film Alum Katie Byron’s Show Wins An Emmy Award

Congratulations to Film alum Katie Byron, as she was the Production Designer on "The Beauty Inside", a web-based mini-series that just won an Emmy! The award was “Outstanding new approaches: Original daytime program or series.”