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Memberships are being accepted for the 2009-2010 year
Barbara Nicolosi - February 11th, 2010
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Please register online for the February 11th breakfast with Barbara Nicolosi . The breakfast begins, as always, at 7 am at the Silver Legacy.
The title of Barbara's talk is:
Five Things the Church Can Do to Fix the Culture Fast
A screen writer, production company executive and mentor for countless young people in Hollywood will talk will look at effective strategies to see our worldview represented in the marketplace of ideas.”
Barbara Nicolosi Harrington: Originally from Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Barbara Nicolosi is a screenwriter and the Founder of Act One, Inc., a nonprofit program to train and mentor Christians for careers as Hollywood writers and executives. She is a member of the WGA of America-West and has written several screenplays for various Hollywood production companies. Her most recent credit is as a co-writer with Benedict Fitzgerald (writer,The Passion of the Christ) on the 2011 Aloe Entertainment/Lionsgate release, Mary, Mother of the Christ. She also recently completed Polosuasion, a contemporary resetting of Jane Austen’s Persuasion for IMMI Pictures of Beverly Hills. Her next project is Fatima: Message and Miracle about the events that that took place in Fatima, Portugal in 1917, for Origin Entertainment of Manhattan Beach, CA.
Barbara has a Masters in Film and Television from Northwestern University, and a B.A. from the Great Books program at Magdalen College in Warner, NH. She has taken suplementary courses in documentary production and animation at UCLA. She has been a script analyst, and production company executive, and has consulted on scores of entertainment projects. Barbara has been a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, a reader for the Humanitas Prize, a judge for the Angelus Awards Student Film Festival and has appeared as a cultural commentator on ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR and in the pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Premiere magazine, among many others. She has produced several award-winning plays at the Actors Co-op Theater in Hollywood, and is currently completing her first play based on the life of the poet Emily Dickinson.
Barbara is an adjunct professor of cinema at Pepperdine University and is a guest lecturer at the Los Angeles Film Study Center, and the Catholic University of Milan. She won Catholic Press Awards in 2001 and 2002 for her contributions to various Catholic magazines, and is the co-editor with Spencer Lewerenz of the Baker Books 2006 release, Behind the Screen: Hollywood Insiders on Faith and Culture.
Barbara serves on the Board of Directors of the Magis Institute, a non-profit to promote authentic Catholic culture and spirituality. She is also on the board of New Ethos, an effort to foster dialogue and cooperation between the Christian community and Hollywood.
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