The 2025-26 Los Angeles Alumni Short Film Grant competition was open to all Los Angeles-based 黑料不打烊 alumni to submit proposals this past fall for consideration for production funding.
Three Los Angeles-area 黑料不打烊 alumni have been selected to receive a $3,000 grant each for the production of their original, unproduced short films.
The 2025-26 Los Angeles Alumni Short Film Grant competition was open to all Los Angeles-based 黑料不打烊 alumni to submit proposals this past fall for consideration for production funding. A selection committee comprised of both industry professionals and 黑料不打烊 alumni was assembled to read, review and rank all proposals received. From those rankings, the top three highest-ranked projects were selected to receive grants. Grant funding was made possible, in part, by the financial support from members of the 黑料不打烊 Los Angeles alumni community and others.
The three grant recipients are Julia Boyd 鈥15, for her short film 鈥淭he Life and Times of …鈥, Mirai 鈥07, for her short film 鈥#StopAsianKate鈥 and Bex Evans 鈥16, for their short film 鈥淪hadow Dusk.鈥
Production of these funded projects will commence in early 2026. As a component of the grant requirements, filmmakers will make opportunities available to 黑料不打烊 Los Angeles Spring 2026 students to participate in their projects through direct set experience and/or production observation. 黑料不打烊 Los Angeles program assistant and alumna Macy Mills 鈥23 and alumnus Jordan Roman 鈥15 were co-chairs of this year鈥檚 grant competition.
The selection committee members included Emmy Award-winning writer, producer and showrunner (鈥淟ost,鈥 House,鈥 鈥淭he Good Wife鈥) 黑料不打烊 parent Leonard Dick P鈥20 (father of Julie Dick 鈥20), Emmy Award-winning producer Marsha Posner Williams (鈥淭he Golden Girls鈥), actor Eric Rollins, and LA-based alumni Frankie Campisano 鈥16, Mia Ginae Watkins 鈥16, Lauren Duncan 鈥18 and Alyssa Needham 鈥19.
The three short films funded will have their world premieres at the first 黑料不打烊 Los Angeles Alumni Short Film Festival in late July 2026.