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Yale in Hollywood page is for Yale alumni and students to share their talent, performances, shows, experiences etc.

with the broad entertainment community and general audiences. (Yale alumni and students can connect on our separate FB group.)

12/01/2025

Yale in Hollywood Fest, our 6th global virtual film festival, streams free films and panels worldwide December 4 to 6, 2025 at yihfest.com.

Yalies Jennifer Beals (Flashdance, L Word, Book of Boba Fett) and Roshan Sethi (A Nice Indian Boy, The Resident) will receive special awards in a virtual ceremony on Saturday December 6.

The fest showcases features and short films that include at least one Yale student, alum or current staff in the starring, producing, writing or directing chair.

All films and panels are virtual except for our Launch Party / Holiday Party on Thursday Dec 4 at .social in Los Angeles with and other schools. This is a separate ticketed event - get tix at link in flyer.

Congrats all filmmakers on your amazing films and thank you for sharing your stories!

AGENDA

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4
4p. Comedy Shorts: Filmmaker Panel (Virtual)
7p. Launch Party at Hyperion Social, LA

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5
10a. Virtual Panel with Story-boards.ai tools
3p. Virtual Panel: Monetizing Content w VEEEU
4p. Dramatic Shorts: Filmmaker Panel (Virtual)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6
2p. Doc. & Experimental: Film Panel (Virtual)
3p. Awards Livestream & Q&A (Virtual)
Career Achievement & Q***r Voice Awards

Yale in Hollywood Fest has received a Yale Alumni Association Excellence Award for connecting alumni.

YiH Fest Director Quentin Lee founded the festival to help alums share their stories online during pandemic in 2020.
Yale in Hollywood President:

Get YiH fest merch online to show support!

02/13/2025

Yalies in the cast of Cobra Kai attended its sixth and final season premiere Feb 12 at Netflix' Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Griffin Santopietro (first-year) plays Anthony LaRusso, and CS Lee plays Master Kim. The entire final season is available now on Netflix.

12/05/2024

Watch films by Yalie filmmakers at our 5th Yale in Hollywood Fest streaming FREE worldwide December 5-7, 2024 at yihfest.com. The online event includes several film blocks: Animation & Dramatic Shorts, Comedy Shorts and Romantic Comedy Shorts, and free virtual Q&As with filmmakers.
Opening feature: Midas, Dec 5.
Closing Awards: Dec 7 presenting Visionary of the Year to Robinne Lee, and Career Achievement Award to CS Lee

Yale in Hollywood Fest showcases features and short films that include at least one Yale student, alum or staff in the starring, producing, writing or directing chair. Program below.
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THURSDAY 12/5

Opening Feature: MIDAS
Written and directed by Yale in Hollywood Fest 2020 winner TJ Noel-Sullivan, Midas is a dramatic feature about a charismatic college dropout lying his way into a job at an insurance juggernaut and recruiting his two best friends for a plot to steal thousands to save his mother.

At 5 pm PT / 8 pm ET, join the livestream Q&A with filmmaker TJ Noel-Sullivan to discuss Midas.

At 7 pm PT, join the opening party celebrating Yale in Hollywood Fest 2024 sponsored by and taking place at St. Felix Hollywood in Los Angeles:

RSVP now for the Los Angeles event!
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FRIDAY 12/6

Animation & Dramatic Shorts

The selection includes two spriteful animation shorts “La La La” and “Bright College Years” from Eunice Kiang. “Key of Genius” is a delightful short story exploring the relationship between a music teacher and child prodigy. “Evergreen” revisits an old relationship. “BRETT WAS A F*CK” is a masterful edge-of-your-seat thriller about a reunion of four secret society friends.

At 5 pm PT / 8 pm ET, join the livestream Q&A with filmmakers of Animation & Dramatic Shorts!

Romantic Comedy Shorts

The selection opens with Nathaniel Dolquist’s fan fiction short “Hulking and Wiccan: Love is Power.” “2008” is a delightful experimental short about two le***an parents’ relationship seen through the eyes of their child in 2008. “Tutto Peppe” is a bitter-sweet romantic comedy set in an Italian restaurant. “At Capacity” and “Stand Off” are two unexpected romantic comedies with a genre twist.

At 6 pm PT / 9 pm ET, join the livestream Q&A with filmmakers of Romantic Comedy Shorts!
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SATURDAY 12/7

Comedy Shorts

The selection opens with “Sequin,” a cutely comedic short about a young girl bonding over a small gift with a stranger despite her grandmother’s disapproval. “The Folly of Paris, or, The Or…” is Yale in Hollywood Fest 2023 winner Laura Lionetta’s second short film cheekily reinterpreting a classic legend. “Knead” is an unexpected and hilarious comedy about an “alien invasion.” “White Wash” is a q***r horror comedy. “The Girls at the Painted Bird” tells the comical story of a group of “fallen women” in the Old West getting rich quick when they discover the true gold rush – charging men for their emotional labor.

At 3 pm PT / 6 pm ET, watch the livestream Q&A with filmmakers of Comedy Shorts and Closing Awards:
Visionary of the Year: Robinne Lee
Career Achievement Award: CS Lee

Thx to fest organizers Quentin Lee, Melissa Dawn Johnson, Hannah, Kevin Winston.

09/18/2024

Cheer on several Yalies who work on Agatha All Along at our premiere Watch Party on Wed Sep 18, 6:30p at Scum and Villainy Cantina in Hollywood. Free to attend, no RSVP, just show up! Food and drink on your own. 21+ after 8p.

We wil cheer on Yalies when their faces / credits appear on the show:
- Kathryn Hahn stars as Agatha
- Ali Ahn plays Alice
- Bobby Lopez, composer, Agatha All Along theme song
- Chris Beck, composer
- Sarah Finn, casting director

08/13/2024

You can still register for our Meet the Emmys Nominees panel with nominees from X-men 97, Ahsoka and Amazing Race on Thursday Aug 15, 6:30p at Emerson LA in Hollywood. Register http://meetnomimees.eventbrite.com

Join us for our panel featuring talent on Emmy nominated shows including X-Men '97, Ahsoka, Amazing Race and more. Speakers will share their paths into the entertainment industry, their experience working on these hit shows, and some industry tips. Get ready to be inspired by their stories, insights, and experiences. Light snacks will be available.

SCHEDULED SPEAKERS (more to be added)
- Jake Castorena, X-Men '97, Supervising Producer
- Lenore Zann, X-Men '97, voice of Rogue. Lenore voiced popular fan-favorite superhero Rogue in X-Men '97 and the original X-Men: The Animated Series. X-Men '97 is nominated for Animated Program, episode 5, in which she plays a major role. Lenore is an accomplished voice and on-screen actress with dozens of credits in movies, TV shows, and video games, including Bratz, My Little Pony, TMNT, Law and Order and more,
- Gui Agustini, X-Men '97, voice of Sunspot
Elissa Alcala, Ahsoka, Assistant Costume Designer. Elissa helped design the costumes on Ahsoka, nominated for Fantasy / SciFi Costumes.
- Kevin Johnson, Amazing Race, nominated in the Outstanding Cinematography For A Reality Program. An Emerson alum, Kevin is a 3x Emmy nominee and drone photographer.
- David Bianchi, creator of RZR, cyber tech digital series for which Mena Suvari is Emmy nominated for Outstanding Performer In A Short Form Comedy Or Drama Series
- Kevin Winston, Digital LA, moderator

05/29/2024

Yalie Jodie Foster is on the cover of the Hollywood Reporter in its Emmys Drama Actress THR Roundtable feature with Sofia Vergara, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Aniston, Naomi Watts, Anna Sawai
and Brie Larson
Article: http://thr.cm/o4z0KP1

05/14/2024

Just confirmed for tonite's X-Men 97 live midnight Watch Party: creator and showrunner and Sunspot's Mom Nina Da Costa voice actress will do a quick Q&A at 11:45p!! Yay! This is our FINALE ninth X-Men '97 Watch Party starting Tuesday May 14, 11:30p with LIVE viewing at midnight at . Wear your X-men shirts / gear and watch the final episode 10 with fellow X-men fans. With . Find out what happened to Wolverine and Jean? Where is Bishop? What's gonna happennnn? What are you gonna wear? Muito legal!
Free to attend! 21+. Food drink for purchase. Recommend arrive 10:30p-11p to get a seat (food required) otherwise standing room only.

04/02/2024

👻❄️Yalie Ernie Hudson stars in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, along with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Paul Rudd. In his fourth film in the franchise, his Winston is a wealthy businessman who runs a ghost research facility. He's excited to return in a larger role https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/ernie-hudson-interview-ghostbusters-frozen-empire-proton-packs-supernatural-spirits/

At 78, he drew attention for his fit appearance at the film's red carpet. He responded it's thanks to working out an hour three times a week, 10,000 steps every day, eating between 12-7 p.m., drinking plenty of water, and following a strict skincare routine consisting of Vitamin C, moisturizer, and sunscreen. https://www.yahoo.com/news/age-buster-ernie-hudson-reveals-125502508.html

If you saw Frozen Empire, what do you think of it?

03/14/2024

Congrats Oscar-winner Da'Vine Joy Randolph is on the cover of Variety with a feature story. Excepts:

Variety: You and Lupita went to Yale drama school together, and you started to cry when she was speaking about you. What were you feeling?

Da'Vine: It just felt like a very surreal full-circle moment, because I met her as I was becoming an actor. The emotion came because at that point I had already won for myself. I didn’t care whose name they said. I had already won because I was there.

Variety: Over time, there have been over 3,300 Oscar statuettes awarded. But you are the only the 19th Black woman to win one...

Da'Vine: I don’t want to just do Black movies. I will always pay tribute to, honor, uplift and be a part of Black storytelling, but I need to infiltrate and get in the spaces where we’re not. I want to be in a Wes Anderson movie just ’cause. I want to be in a David O. Russell movie just ’cause. Coen brothers. I’ve never seen us there. Because that’s when I think we can really bring about educating and creating real change. If we just stay over by ourselves, nothing is going to change.

Variety: You also thanked your acting teacher from Yale, Ron Van Lieu. What did he do?

Da'Vine: We used to do scenes and text analysis, and we’d do, like, “A Doll’s House.” Everybody got to play Nora, but I’d be the only one in the class playing, what’s her name — Miss Schmidt or whatever? And I’m like, “Why? Who’s choosing this? Who gets to decide what stories I get to tell?” One time I got fed up, and he was like, “Well, who is it that you want to be?” And I realized I don’t want to be anyone; I just want to be myself. And he said, “Great. You know who else is themselves? Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, De Niro. There wasn’t a them before them. So you’re gonna have to have patience and resilience, because you’re essentially forging your own path. There’s no blueprint for you.” So he just understood me.

Full article https://wp.me/pc8uak-1lDSt3

02/12/2024

🏈🚿Finally: A Yalie at the Super Bowl! Jennifer Beals appears in T-Mobile's Flashdance themed ad with Scrubs stars Zack Braff, Donald Faison and Jason Momoa! She acted with Faison in L-Word. Watch it https://youtu.be/YVeCwSWNLrM
It's the second Flashdance theme SB ad.

Jennifer graduated Yale with a B.A. in American Literature in 1987. She was in Morse. She deferred a term so she could star in Flashdance. She recently appeared in Star Wars show Book of Boba Fett as a cantina owner.

She discusses doing the ad cuz Faison was in it https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/Ad-Meter/2024/02/05/jennifer-beals-flashdance-tmobile-super-bowl-commercial/72464043007/

02/08/2024

Yalie Lupita Nyong'o stars in A Quiet Place: Day One, a prequel to the silent thriller scifi series. She plays a everywoman New Yorker when aliens attack. Watch trailer

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