By: Brittany McGowan Today was jam-packed and full of excitement and learning. I started the day off at Hollywood Production Center along with my classmate Ben meeting with Hofstra alum Mike Boord, an assistant editor on the Starz show Vida. Though Ben and I are both film and TV majors and Mike was just film…
Tag: Networking
A Stroll Down New York Street
By: Kristen Krupski Who would’ve thought that I would have started my day on a golf cart getting a personal tour of the CBS Radford lot with the VP of daytime programming? I didn’t, but surely I was wrong. Today, we were split into groups for individual on-site networking meetings. I was paired with three…
Networking, Netflix & aNimation
By: Izzy Falkovich As hard as I thought it was going to be to top our first day our in LA, day two certainly did not disappoint. The day started differently than the days that preceded, as we started the mornings in pairs to network with specific professionals working within a field of our interest….
Learning the Ropes
By: Sophie Kabel I have been looking forward to this day since we got the itinerary for the trip. The first meeting on the list was with Ray Paolantonio the VP of Daytime Programming for CBS. Kristen, Ben, Sara and I headed over to CBS to have a meeting with the VP. Having a small…
City of Stars
Day 1: Edelman, Paramount and Magical Elves
Be the Go-To Person
By: Brittany McGowan Just a hop, skip, limo, and a six-hour flight, and we hit the ground running in Los Angeles. Today was our first day of meetings, and already it’s been incredibly insightful in various areas of entertainment and representation. Our first stop was Edelman, an international marketing and public relations firm. I quickly…
LA: Our First Sights
By: Sara Whitman I am finally in California! After telling my dad since freshman year of college that I am considering moving to Los Angeles one day, I have made it. This of course is for a school trip, but it’s a start. I hopped off the plane at LAX (did anyone else sing it…
West Coast Bound
By: Emalia Hinden Hi! I’m Emalia Hinden, a senior film studies and production major at Hofstra University. I’m from a small island just off Seattle called Vashon Island. I was homeschooled most of my life and enjoyed growing up around nature – I probably read thousands of books in all my free time. During those…
The Time My Mom Kickstarted My Film Career
By: Cassie Passantino The first time I heard about the Hofstra in L.A. program was in a text from my mom. It contained the link to the website and a message that read, and I quote, “YOU HAVE TO DO THIS!!!” I opened the page right away and was instantly hooked. Since my first year…
The Other Shining Sea
“Absorbing media, particularly news, is now my world. There are few places where I can absorb that better than Los Angeles.”
Hofstra in LA 2019 