Prodigy Camp

People

Former Students

Rikke Heineke

Prodigy Camp alumnus Rikke Heineke's short films have received numerous major awards. Following her graduation from the Ballard High Film Program in 2011, she was accepted to USC's highly-selective Film School. You can view more of her films on her Vimeo Profile.

Faculty

Stewart Stern

Stewart Stern's credits feature Rebel Without A Cause, Teresa (Academy Award nomination), Rachel, Rachel (Academy Award nomination) and the Oscar-winning documentary Benjy, which he wrote. Stern was nominated four times for the Writers Guild Award in Motion Picture and Television Writing, including The Ugly American, and won for the Peabody Award film, Sybil and A Christmas to Remember. Sybil also earned Stewart an Emmy for best-written Television Drama of its year.



Tom Skerritt

While in his last year at UCLA, Tom Skerritt debuted as a film actor in War Hunt, an independent 1962 anti-war film that also featured New York theater actors Robert Redford and Sydney Pollack. Since then, Skerritt has appeared in more than 35 feature films, including Robert Altman’s MASH, A River Runs Through It, Harold and Maude, The Turning Point, Alien, Top Gun, Steel Magnolias and Contact. He is a winner of an Emmy Award for Best Actor for his role in CBS’s Picket Fences and has directed many episodic and long-form television productions.



Advisory Board

Christopher McQuarrie

Christopher McQuarrie is well known for his collaboration with Bryan Singer on The Usual Suspects, which won him both the Oscar and the BAFTA Award. Christopher began his successful screenwriting career as co-writer of the screenplay for Public Access (1993), which was named co-winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival.



Robert Redford

Redford won an Academy Award®, a Golden Globe Award and a Directors Guild of America Award, for his feature film directorial debut on the emotionally shattering family drama "Ordinary People (1980)." He went on to both direct and produce "Quiz Show (1994)," earning dual Oscar® nominations for Best Picture and Best Director and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Director; and, most recently, "The Horse Whisperer (1998)," which brought him his fourth Golden Globe nod for Best Director.



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