The 2025-26 Los Angeles Alumni Short Film Grant competition was open to all Los Angeles-based Ƶ alumni to submit proposals this past fall for consideration for production funding.
Three Los Angeles-area Ƶ alumni have been selected to receive a $3,000 grant each for the production of their original, unproduced short films.
The 2025-26 Los Angeles Alumni Short Film Grant competition was open to all Los Angeles-based Ƶ alumni to submit proposals this past fall for consideration for production funding. A selection committee comprised of both industry professionals and Ƶ alumni was assembled to read, review and rank all proposals received. From those rankings, the top three highest-ranked projects were selected to receive grants. Grant funding was made possible, in part, by the financial support from members of the Ƶ Los Angeles alumni community and others.
The three grant recipients are Julia Boyd ’15, for her short film “The Life and Times of …”, Mirai ’07, for her short film “#StopAsianKate” and Bex Evans ’16, for their short film “Shadow Dusk.”
Production of these funded projects will commence in early 2026. As a component of the grant requirements, filmmakers will make opportunities available to Ƶ Los Angeles Spring 2026 students to participate in their projects through direct set experience and/or production observation. Ƶ Los Angeles program assistant and alumna Macy Mills ’23 and alumnus Jordan Roman ’15 were co-chairs of this year’s grant competition.
The selection committee members included Emmy Award-winning writer, producer and showrunner (“Lost,” House,” “The Good Wife”) Ƶ parent Leonard Dick P’20 (father of Julie Dick ’20), Emmy Award-winning producer Marsha Posner Williams (“The Golden Girls”), actor Eric Rollins, and LA-based alumni Frankie Campisano ’16, Mia Ginae Watkins ’16, Lauren Duncan ’18 and Alyssa Needham ’19.
The three short films funded will have their world premieres at the first Ƶ Los Angeles Alumni Short Film Festival in late July 2026.