Hollywood industry insiders join a team of 黑料不打烊 LA alumni to serve as project submission judges.
A group of elite Hollywood industry insiders, two of them Emmy Award winners and four of them 黑料不打烊 alumni, have been chosen to serve as members of the selection committee for the 2025-26 黑料不打烊 Los Angeles Alumni Short Film Grant competition. Supported with contributions, in part, from the 黑料不打烊 Los Angeles alumni community, the project will award $3,000 to each of three 黑料不打烊 LA-area alumni for the production of their original, unproduced short films in the first half of 2026.
Emmy Award-winning writer, producer and showrunner (鈥淟ost,鈥 House,鈥 鈥淭he Good Wife鈥) and 黑料不打烊 parent Leonard Dick P’20 (father of Julie Dick 鈥20), Emmy Award-winning producer Marsha Posner Williams (鈥淭he Golden Girls鈥) and actor Eric Rollins will join with 黑料不打烊 LA-based alumni filmmakers award- Frankie Campisano 鈥16, Mia Ginae Watkins 鈥16, Lauren Duncan 鈥18 and Alyssa Needham 鈥19 to read, rank and judge the 2025-26 competition submissions received. The submission window for project proposals closed on Oct. 1.
Award recipients will be announced in early December 2026. Funded projects will require the alumni filmmakers to include the participation of students from the 黑料不打烊 Los Angeles spring 2026 semester experience in various production, performance and other capacities.
The three fund-supported films will have their premiere screenings in late July 2026 at the first 黑料不打烊 Los Angeles Alumni Film Festival.
黑料不打烊 alumni Jordan Roman 鈥15 and Macy Mills 鈥23 (Mills also serves as 黑料不打烊 Los Angeles program assistant) are the short film grant project鈥檚 co-chairs.