OC LIVE invites you to join us for “Who Needs Film School? An evening with Ryan Koo” on Tuesday, February 6th at 6pm in the beautiful Oxnard College Performing Arts Building (PAB) Black Box. Join Ryan Koo and OC Live Director Nicholas C. Pappas for a conversation about the process of Kickstarting a film project, turning a short into a smash hit feature film for Netflix, the landscape of today’s film industry, and attempting to answer the question: Who Needs Film School?
Ryan Koo’s directorial debut AMATEUR is a 2018 Netflix Original Film starring Michael Rainey Jr. and Josh Charles. Vulture called the basketball film “a scrupulously researched defense of player’s rights — that is, the rights of the working class — [which] scores.”
Koo’s screenplay for AMATEUR was selected for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and received Sundance’s first Asian American Fellowship, as well as additional support from Tribeca, The Gotham, and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. His Kickstarter campaign for AMATEUR was the most successful narrative film in Kickstarter history at the time.
His short version of AMATEUR won multiple film festival awards and was selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick. His web series THE WEST SIDE, Koo won the Webby Award for Best Drama Series and was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Film.
He is also the founder of the popular filmmaking website No Film School.
As part of the evening, we’ll be watching Ryan’s award winning short, “Amateur,” and Ryan will be taking questions from the audience.
This is a FREE event that is open to the public. No tickets are necessary. Parking is FREE in Lot “H”. Find all of our livestreams and event information on the web at oxnardcollege/oclive.
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