Guest Speakers in the David Lynch Graduate School of Cinematic Arts

The David Lynch Graduate School of Cinematic Arts draws on industry experts, academics, and professionals from all areas of film production and distribution. Visiting lecturers from past years have included:

BILL BORDEN

Producer of Mission Impossible 3, High School Musical, An Officer and a Gentleman, and many others

DUWAYNE DUNHAM

Director and editor of films and TV shows such as, Twin Peaks, JAG, 7th Heaven, Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet and many others.

PETER FARRELLY

Writer/Director of films, including Dumb & Dumber, There’s Something About Mary, and Shallow Hal

JEREMY KAGEN

Director of Heroes (film), The Big Fix, The Chosen, and many others

LEIGH BADGLEY

Award-winning documentary filmmaker for A&E, CBC, Canada’s National Film

LOUISE LEVISON

Author of Variety Presents: Filmmakers and Financing—Business Plans for Independents

JOHN RAATZ

Marketing and promotional expert, has represented Jim Carrey, Eckhart Tolle, Madonna, and many others

LISA WILSON

Veteran international film distributor who has handled titles such as Crash, Hugo, The Tourist, and Arbitrage, presently serving on the board of IFTA

JIM CARREY

Four-time Golden Globe Award nominee, actor

KIM SWARTZ

Entertainment attorney

ELLEN SANDLER

Emmy-nominated, Co-Executive Producer CBS hit series Everybody Loves Raymond & author of The TV Writer’s Workbook.

MICHAEL RAUCH

Creator and executive producer of Royal Pains and Beautiful People, has written and directed numerous projects in both film and television.

SUSAN SEIDELMAN

Writer/Director/Producer of films including Smithereens, the first American independent feature to be screened in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival and Desperately Seeing Susan, among others.

E. MAX FRY

Writer/producer/director of films, including the 1986 movie Something Wild, HBO’s Band of Brothers and in 2015, received an Academy Award nomination for co-writing the original screenplay Foxcatcher.

KATE PURDY

A writer/producer known for BoJack Horseman, Cougar Town and The McCarthys.

Kim Hudson

Author of The Virgin’s Promise: Writing Stories of Feminine Creative, Spiritual and Sexual Awakening

Kelly Edwards

Writer, Producer, Entertainment Executive, Pipeline Program Consultant

Matthew Weiner

Writer, Director, Producer, Creator of Mad Men, The Romanoffffs. Writer/Executive Producer of The Sopranos. Won Multiple Emmy and Golden Globes.

John Truby

Internationally influential screenplay theorist, author of Anatomy of Story

Pen Desham

Film and television producer, writer, and director of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, and Moll Flanders

KATRINA O'GILVIE

Wrote NAACP Image Award nominated Behind the Movement, a film about Rosa Parks. Story editor Apple TV’s Swagger. Assistant to Aaron Sorkin on Sports Night

RUTH ATKINSON

A Los Angeles-based script consultant and story editor who has been helping writers, directors, and producers tell their stories for over 25 years