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.
The Writer’s Center presents a FREE virtual chat about the craft of fiction! We’re joined by novelists Virginia Hartman (The Marsh Queen) and Annie Liontas (Let Me Explain You) for a discussion of their books and writing.
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Instruction and Reference Librarian Tolonda Henderson has sent us the following entry about her upcoming workshop on Harry Potter, this Tuesday at 4 PM in Gelman: One of the most basic ways we organize books is by fiction and non-fiction. My detective novels and sci-fi fantasy books live across my apartment from my textbooks from…
An interactive session on fighting anti-Asian racism through film, led by Alexa Alice Joubin, on Friday May 21 at 3 pm eastern time. The event is free and open to the public. Sign up here. Direct Zoom link. To mark the AAPI (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) Heritage Month, Fulbright Alumni Ambassador and GW English professor…
Feed your mind and body. See the English Department in action. Meet famous novelists. Learn about the future of literature. Eat something sweet. Mingle with students, faculty, alumni. LITERATURE IN A GLOBAL AGE: PANEL DISCUSSION & RECEPTION Featuring the British Council Writer in Residence Suhayl Saadi “Literature in a Global Age” is about the past…
Dear Faculty and Graduate Students: Don’t forget to mark your calendars for the 2016 EGSA Student Symposium, Border Crossings! Friday, February 12th from 9 AM- 6:30 PM Gelman 219 This year’s symposium features a cross-disciplinary smorgasbord of border crossings, from Historical and Economic exchanges to Crip/Queer crossings, Genre and Intertextual blending, and the power…
This week’s edition of Stay Lit is all about film! Reel Affirmations is DC’s International LGBTQ Film Festival and it starts tonight and goes until Sunday. Held at the Gala Hispanic Theatre this festival will feature documentaries, shorts, and feature films. It starts tonight at 7pm with the feature film Signature Move, which won top…