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A conversation with the creative team behind the Sundance selection,  "Call Jane."

Join us for a conversation with producer, Kevin McKeon '07, and writer, Haley Schore, from the film, <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7461272/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Call Jane</a>, moderated by <a href="https://www.emerson.edu/faculty-staff-directory/cristina-kotz-cornejo" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cristina Kotz Cornejo</a>, professor and VMA Chair.

Panelists:Kevin McKeon '07 (Producer) is the Vice President of Production at Mattel Films, shepherding feature projects through development and production based on the company's storied collection of intellectual property including Barbie with Warner Bros. starring Margot Robbie, Masters of The Universe with Sony and Netflix, Hot Wheels with Warner Bros., American Girl with Julia Roberts’s Red Om Pictures and Magic 8 Ball at Universal. He is also serving as a producer on A Taste of Power, with Gugu Mbatha-Raw attached to star, and The Housewife, with Naomi Watts attached.Previously, McKeon worked as VP and then SVP of Production in the film department at entertainment conglomerate, The Firm. There, he served as an Executive Producer on IFC's coming-of-age film THE TRIBES OF PALOS VERDES with Jennifer Garner, and the redemption drama BURDEN, starring Garrett Hedlund and Forest Whitaker, which won the Sundance Film Festival's US Dramatic Audience Award in 2018. Prior to joining The Firm, McKeon served as a Creative Executive at Relativity Media's independent label, Relativity Squared or R2, where he helped develop and oversee a slate of filmmaker-driven and independent-minded content including both production and acquisitions for the indie label. He also worked at Oliver Stone's production shingle, Ixtlan, Inc, during the production of Universal’s SAVAGES and has served as an executive assistant for Drew Barrymore and Robbie Brenner. He started his career in physical production on such films as VALENTINE'S DAY, EDGE OF DARKNESS, and SEVEN POUNDS.Hayley Schore (Writer) Hayley graduated from U.C. Berkeley with degrees in Creative Writing and Fine Art. She worked in regional theater for such renowned companies as the Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Berkeley Shakespeare Festival. After moving back to Los Angeles, she worked in television, feature film and new media development for numerous companies, including Steven Bochco Productions, Universal Pictures and Fox Broadcasting Company.Hayley co-created THE RESIDENT on FOX, currently in its 5th season. She previously wrote for TV dramas CODE BLACK (CBS) and BLACK BOX (ABC). Along with cowriter Roshan Sethi, Hayley had two scripts on the Black List, including CALL JANE -- which premiered at Sundance, 2022. She cowrote THE SPOILS -- a socially-conscious heist movie for Lionsgate; and THE INFINITY OF HOPE -- the true story of a young black man who rose from the projects of New Orleans to become one of NASA’s top astrophysicists -- for Working Title/Universal. Hayley has several feature films and television series in development, including: OCEAN FRONT -- a mother-daughter story inspired by her childhood growing up in a political collective in Venice Beach; THE SECRET OF LIFE -- the story of Rosalind Franklin whose groundbreaking work on DNA was stolen by two young men from Cambridge who went on to win the Nobel Prize, with Ursula Macfarlane (“Untouchable”) attached to direct; SALLY RIDE, a mini-series on the life of astronaut Sally Ride, with Evan Rachel Wood attached to star; HOT, an original series inspired by the true story of the trailblazing young women who arrived in Palm Springs at the beginning of the 20th Century and transformed the scorching barren desert into the iconic Shangri-La we know today; and JIMMY -- the true story of the man who invented chemotherapy at a time when there was no hope for kids with cancer and changed the course of medicine.Moderated by:<a href="http://www.emerson.edu/faculty-staff-directory/cristina-kotz-cornejo" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cristina Kotz Cornejo</a> is an independent filmmaker, professor, and Chair of the Visual Media Arts department at Emerson College.

This event is presented in partnership with the <a href="https://www.emerson.edu/academics/schools-labs-and-centers/school-arts" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Emerson School of the Arts</a>.

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