Lia Lenart and Bobbie Lucas will conduct a workshop exclusive to University of Tampa students. They’ll cover topics like forging relationships across filmmaking disciplines, navigating the early stages of your career without the bubble of school, and general best practices from page to screen.
Afterwards, Bobbie and Lia will host feedback sessions for five selected students whose short scripts, feature excerpts, or short film cuts were previously selected for feedback submission. To submit your work for potential feedback, please GO HERE. You will be notified a week before the workshop if your piece was chosen. Deadline for Submissions is Monday, 2/6/2023 by 11:59pm.
Bobbie Lucas is a producer originally from New Jersey. She has produced multiple short films and consulted on a feature that is now in pre-production. She is a graduate of Vassar College and received her MFA in Film, Television and Digital Media Producing from UCLA. During Lucas' college and graduate school days, she interned at Made Up Stories and Color Force, where she saw firsthand the inner workings of the successful female driven production company. After graduation, Lucas lives in Los Angeles where she has worked as a Development Assistant in both features and drama television development. Her creative pursuits and producorial efforts center on female focused narratives (both in front of and behind the camera) that reflect the true range of the human experience, particularly those with intergenerational stories.
Lia believes that stories give us a structure to help us understand our experiences, values, identity and place in history. She is drawn towards complex stories that challenge stereotypes and avoid simple conclusions. Originally from Cambridge, MA, Lia graduated with honors from Harvard. As a Directing MFA at UCLA’s School of Theater Film and Television, she was a UCLA TFT/Telluride FilmLAB Fellow, and received the Streisand Sony Fellowship and Jim Morrison Film Award. Her thesis, Cassandra, won the Women in Film Verna Fields Memorial Fellowship, Lynn Weston Fellowship in Film, Adrienne Shelley Award, and Caucus Foundation Grant. Her final year in the program, she was selected to direct one of three UCLA Theater-Film collaboration films. She is currently an Associate Editor on the upcoming feature doc "Would You Hide Me?" and an Instructor at UCLA Film School Summer Sessions.
