Join CCAS for the next installment in the series Five Questions with GW Alumni, featuring GW English Major Jason Filardi, CCAS BA’93. Jason Filardi will share insights on being a Hollywood screenwriter, as well as reflect on how his GW experiences influenced his career. Filardi will be interviewed by Patricia Phalen, Assistant Director and Associate Professor at GW’s School of Media and Public Affairs.
Filardi made his debut in Hollywood with the box office hit Bringing Down the House, which starred Steve Martin and Queen Latifah. That film went on to become one of the highest grossing comedies of 2003, grossing over $130 million in the United States alone.
Since then, Filardi has become one of the industry’s go-to screenwriters. He has worked on a variety of high-profile projects including Beverly Hills Chihuahua, the ensemble comedy Wild Hogs starring Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, and John Travolta, The Pacifier, starring Vin Diesel, Eight Below starring Paul Walker and The Proposal starring Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock. In 2018, Jason wrote Status Update starring teen heartthrob Ross Lynch.
Currently, Jason and his brother, Peter Filardi, adapted Stephen King’s short story Jerusalem’s Lot for television. The 10-episode series stars Academy Award winner Adrien Brody and will air on Epix Entertainment in August 2021.
The George Washington University’s bicentennial is an incredible, historic milestone. With 27,000+ students from more than 135 countries, a worldwide community of 300,000+ living alumni, and thousands of faculty and staff, the GW community is coming together to celebrate 200 years of phenomenal growth.
A reminder that this Monday evening the English Department will be sponsoring a panel discussion, FICTION AND SURVIVAL: IMAGINATION, MIGRATION, AND DIASPORA, featuring Nadeem Aslam, H. G. Carrillo, and Joanne Leedom-Ackerman. Nadeem Aslam is our inaugural British Council U.K. Writer in Residence; H. G. Carrillo teaches Creative Writing here at GW; Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a…
This coming Wednesday: an important panel and audience discussion sponsored by the Africana Studies Program and the Multicultural Student Services Center. Share on Facebook Tweet
The English Department and the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences are proud to announce that this year’s World Literature Residency is being held by South African writer Nokuthula Mazibuko. The World Literature Residency brings writers from across the globe to GW to lecture, read from their works, and visit undergraduate classes. Writers typically remain…
Some of the students in English 3980 on a rainy day in Prague Students in Professor Robert McRuer’s English 3980, “Transnational Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures,” had the opportunity this semester to participate in one of the department’s most unique offerings. The course was taught all semester here at GW while another version of it…
If you, like me, forgot to turn your television to the News Hour on Valentine’s Day to listen to poet and GW faculty member Jane Shore read Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” — despair not! You can watch the entire performance via streaming video here. And, for your enjoyment, the poem itself. One Art The…