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Writer/Director Whedon ’87 Shasha Seminar Keynote

Olivia DrakeJune 4, 20094min
How Movies and TV Get Made."
Joss Whedon '87, Academy Award-nominated and Hugo Award-winning writer, a director, an executive producer, was the keynote speaker at the 2009 Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns. The three-day seminar focused on "Defining American Culture: How Movies and TV Get Made."
Whedon spoke to members of the audience following his talk May 30. He was the writer, director, and executive producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly. His latest creative project is the new TV series Dollhouse.
Whedon spoke to members of the audience following his talk May 30. He was the writer, director, and executive producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly. His latest creative project is the new TV series Dollhouse.
Pictured in center, Jeanine Basinger, the Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, curator of the Wesleyan Cinema Archives, chair of the Film Studies Department, was the Shasha Seminar's facilitator.
Pictured in center, Jeanine Basinger, the Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, curator of the Wesleyan Cinema Archives, chair of the Film Studies Department, was the Shasha Seminar's facilitator.
Wheadon and Basinger spoke to Shasha Seminar attendees and Wesleyan students at a pre-address dinner May 30. (Photos by Bill Burkhart, university photographer)
Whedon and Basinger spoke to Shasha Seminar attendees and Wesleyan students at a pre-address dinner May 30. (Photos by Bill Burkhart, university photographer)

Other presenters at the Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns included author Mark Harris; Mark I. Bomback ’93, screenwriter, whose credits include Race to Witch Mountain, Live Free or Die Hard, and Deception; Miguel Arteta, film and television director of Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl, Six Feet Under and Youth in Revolt.

Also Liz Garcia ’99, producer, editor and writer of Cold Case; Evan Katz ’83, screenwriter and the executive producer of the television series 24; David Kendall ’79, director of several television series, including Jonas, Hannah Montana and Growing Pains; Dan Shotz ’99, producer, editor and writer, Jericho, and the new show Harper’s Island; Matthew Greenfield ’90, vice president of production, Fox Searchlight Pictures; Dylan Leiner ’93, executive vice president, acquisitions and production, Sony Pictures Classics; Jason Zolov ’94, market researcher at Home Box Office and Jeffrey S. Lane ’76, five-time Emmy Award-winner and television writer of Mad About You and Cagney and Lacy.

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