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.
Next month, Margaret Soltan will lead a discussion on the subject of trust, using the story “Trust Me” by John Updike, for a class organized through Books@Work, a non-profit which “brings professor-led seminars to workplaces and community settings.” In March and April, she’ll give a series of public lectures on poetry at the Georgetown Library. Here’s the…
Our next Jenny McKean Moore reading is Thursday, March 4th at 6:30 pm. It will be a special evening, featuring the daughter of Jenny McKean Moore, Honor Moore, reading, from her memoir, about her mother. Virginia Hartman will be introducing and moderating the evening. Join Our Event: https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/j/97827956788?pwd=Vis1a3lwREl0a0dEWFNYb28wTExMdz09 Meeting ID: 978 2795 6788 Passcode:…
TRANSVISCERAL The George Washington University February 6, 2015 Paper Proposal Deadline: December 12, 2014 Keynote speaker: Sharon P. Holland, Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Raising the Dead: Reading of Death and (Black) Subjectitivity (2000) and, most recently, The Erotic Life of Racism (2012). In…
Looking for some serious English Department nerd action this weekend? Look no further — The National Book Festival is upon us. Check out the incredible line up of authors that includes Henry Louis Gates, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Barbara Kingsolver, Sigrid Nunez, and many dozens more. Find your favorite author, discover news ones, and generally…
The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series Presents: Laura van den Berg Join us on Thursday, April 28th at 7:30PM in Corcoran 111 for the next installment of The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series featuring Laura van den Berg, who will read from her new novel, Find Me. Find Me, “a gripping, imaginative, darkly funny…
The English Department was one of the primary sponsors for “Accessing Alliances: Disability Studies across the Curriculum,” held in the Marvin Center February 22-23, 2007. The event opened with a selection of disability film shorts from around the world hosted by prominent disability studies scholars and filmmakers David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder of the University…