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Media Services establishes funds for UCLA and NYU Producer Programs PDF Print E-mail
Written by Steve Cha   
(L-R) Greg Pickert, Media Services CEO; Barbara Boyle, Chair of the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media; and Peter Heller, Executive Director of Development & Industry Relations of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Photo provided by Media Services.Media Services -- providers of accounting, payroll services and software -- has established a fellowship for UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television and an endowment for New York University's (NYU) Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts. Each worth $100,000, the fellowship and the endowment will support each school's program in producing..

Designed to nurture students towards professionalism and to support the realization of recipients’ feature film project, the Media Services Fellowship in Producing will aid students in the graduate Producers Program at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. The Producers Program addresses and encourages both commercial genre-driven projects as well as independent projects. 

(L-R): Steve Bizenov, Vice President, Sales, Media Services; John Tintori, chair of the Graduate Film Division in the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television; Greg Pickert, CEO of Media Services; and Fred Bush, Director of Development and Alumni Relations, Tisch School Of The Arts, NYU. Photo provided by Media Services.The Robert Oberman, Greg Pickert, Media Services Graduate Film Production Fund is an endowment earmarked for students in the Dual MBA/MFA Degree Program in Producing.  A partnership between NYU’s Stern School of Business and Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at the Tisch School of the Arts, the Dual Degree Program aims to bridge the gap between the creative and business aspects of the industry.

The fellowship and endowerment were respectively.announced at Media Services' retail and production centers in Los Angeles and New York.

 
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