His passion for performance led him, while he was a student, to the La Mama theatre company in New York City. “At Sarah Lawrence, instead of learning to distrust your impulses, you were told, see where they go, where they lead,” Avnet says. The fit between me and Sarah Lawrence was natural.” What interested me was doing things in ways no one had ever done before. “It’s the ability to process lots of input and come up with a decision, as opposed to simply knowing how others have done it. Jon Avnet says Sarah Lawrence helped him hone the most important skill for anyone trying to create high-quality work in film: original thinking. He also co-created, produced, and wrote for the science fiction series, Fringe.Ībrams wrote and directed Mission: Impossible III, produced and directed Star Trek and its sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, and, most recently, wrote, produced, and directed Star Wars: The Force Awakens. For the former series, Abrams also co-wrote the theme song for the latter, he composed theme music. Since then, he has written such films as Regarding Henry, Forever Young, Armageddon, and Joy Ride and served as co-creator and executive producer of the TV series Felicity and creator and executive producer of the series Alias and Lost. Abrams collaborated with a friend to write a feature film treatment, which became 1990’s Taking Care of Business. In his final year at Sarah Lawrence, J.J. (creator, executive producer, screenwriter, director) Courses in the history, aesthetics, and rhetoric of film build on strong backgrounds in the liberal arts, producing students with broad cultural awareness, refined critical judgment, and highly developed creative ability-ideal for careers in the film industry, where they work as independent filmmakers, producers, directors, screenwriters, and casting agents. The visual arts, storytelling, drama-for many Sarah Lawrence students, these combine in a passion for the art of cinema.
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