Join established Hollywood and international film and television industry professionals to learn about the four major stages of a film’s lifecycle: from writing the script, to producing and packaging it, directing, releasing and marketing. Hosted by Entertainment Executive and FMS alum Paul Davidson, and Director-Producer-Writer and former FMS Professor, Fatimah Tobing Rony, this series is open to UCI students, faculty, and staff.
Join us for the fourth event in this series, where we discuss directing a feature film with Patrick Brice (Creep, The Overnight, Corporate Animals, There’s Someone Inside Your House).
UCI students who register and participate in all five events will be eligible for a special alumni gift and will receive a certificate for completing the workshop, “From Script to Screen.”
About Patrick Brice:
Patrick Brice was born and raised in Grass Valley, California. He graduated with a BFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) School of Film & Video in 2011. CREEP, his first feature-film as director/writer/actor (co-starring Mark Duplass) was produced by Blumhouse Productions, premiered at SXSW 2014 and was released through Netflix. His second feature as director/writer, THE OVERNIGHT (with Adam Scott, Taylor Schilling and Jason Schwartzman) premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically by The Orchard. He also co-wrote and directed CREEP 2 starring Duplass and Desiree Akhavan which was released in 2017 through Netflix. His fourth feature, CORPORATE ANIMALS starring Ed Helms and Demi Moore, premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically by Screen Media Films. THERE'S SOMEONE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE, an original feature he directed for Netflix and produced by Shawn Levy and James Wan, was named by Variety as one of the “Best Horror Films of 2021” and spent its debut week as the #1 film on Netflix. He recently released THE CREEP TAPES, an episodic spinoff of the CREEP franchise, on AMC+ and Shudder. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
About Paul Davidson:
Paul Davidson (1995) is an Entertainment executive who has over twenty years working in Film and TV development, production, acquisition, distribution and marketing. Most recently, Davidson led IDW Entertainment’s TV & Film division, producing series like Netflix’s Locke & Key, Apple TV+’s Surfside Girls and CBC’s Essex County. Prior to that, Davidson ran The Orchard’s film and TV division, growing the company into a robust independent film distribution studio. Under his leadership, The Orchard netted multiple Oscar nominations (Life, Animated and Cartel Land) and released well-known favorites like What We Do in the Shadows, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, American Animals, The Overnight and more. Prior to The Orchard, Paul ran Microsoft’s global digital entertainment service — Xbox Video. Paul is also the author of four books, including Company of Foos (2023), The Small Stuff (2022), Consumer Joe and The Lost Blogs.
About Fatimah Tobing Rony:
Fatimah Tobing Rony was a Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine for 26 years. She left teaching in June of 2024, to focus on producing, directing, and writing her feature animation film La Javanaise (in English: Ananda) in France with the producer Sébastien Onomo of Special Touch Studios and the producer Nia Dinata of Indonesia. Fatimah is the producer, director, and writer of the award-winning short film Annah la Javanaise (2020), an Official Selection of the Annecy Film Festival in June of 2020, and winner of fifteen international film awards including Best Short Film at the 2021 Anifilm Festival (Liberec, Czech Republic) and the 2021 Pixelatl Festival of Animation (Cuernavaca, Mexico). She received her Master of Fine Arts in Film (Directing/Production) from UCLA and her PhD in the History of Art from Yale University. She has directed and written several films, including the short On Cannibalism and the feature film Perempuan Punya Cerita (Chants of Lotus), which she co-directed with Nia Dinata, Upi, and Lasya Susatyo, and which was produced by Nia Dinata. She is the author of two books: The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle and How Do We Look ? Resisting Visual Biopolitics. The latter book tells the story of Annah la Javanaise, upon which her current film project is based.