Visual & Media Arts Faculty
Diane LakeAssistant Professor (2006) B.F.A., Drake University; M.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst On Leave http://www.dianelake.com Diane Lake, who previously taught screenwriting for UCLA's acclaimed Writer's Program, has been a working screenwriter since 1993 when she sold her first story idea. Since then, she has been commissioned to write screenplays for Columbia, Disney, Miramax and Paramount, as well as numerous independent producers. Projects currently in active development include Distance, the story of the French Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot, under option by Blue Collar Films; Chandler, a film noir set in 1930s Los Angeles, being packaged by Roth/Arnold Productions; and A Thousand Cranes, an epic love story set against the backdrop of the bombing of Hiroshima in WWII, being packaged by Digital Domain Studios. Diane's film, Frida, opened the Venice Film Festival in 2002, and was named one of the 10 best films of the year by numerous top 10 lists, including The National Board of Review and the American Film Institute. Frida was also nominated for 6 Academy Awards in 2003. |
