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Catholics and Hollywood
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Date: September 23rd
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Moderator: Matthew Haas, Syndicate Pictures
Speakers:Mark Bonocore, Category 5
Dr. John Haas, IIC & NCBC
Barbara Nicolosi, Act One Programming
Christine O'Donnell, The Salt
Costs: $5/person
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Join us for a panel discussion with Barbara Nicolosi, Dr. John M. Haas, and Mark Bonocore on the role of TV and Film makers in today's world.
Barbara Nicolosi
Barbara Nicolosi, the Director of ACT One, has an MA in Film from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. She has been a director of development, a reader for the Humanitas Prize, and a consultant on many film and television projects. Her feature screenplay, Select Society, is being developed by Reel Life Women Productions, Bel Air. She writes a media column for Ligourian magazine, is on the executive committee of the City of the Angels Film Festival, the board of CIMA and frequently addresses writer's conferences on screenwriting and the arts.
Christine O'Donnell
Christine O'Donnell has been described as sassy, stubborn and sweet, and by those who disagree with her as "the girl you hate to love." This young woman who National Review Magazine says "blends the flare of the King James Bible with Cosmopolitan," Christine O'Donnell, shatters the stereotype about her generation. Her weekly television appearances include ABC's Politically Incorrect, MTV, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, CNBC, Leeza, ABC's Extra, and CBN's 700 Club. Her writings have been published in the Washington Post and Cultural Dissident, to name just a few. She is regularly quoted in print media such as USA Today, Glamour Magazine, the Associated Press and others.
See www.thesalt.org for more on her organization.
Dr. John Haas
John M. Haas is the President of the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Boston, Massachusetts. The Center was established in 1972 to research problems in medical ethics and to apply the teachings of the Catholic Church to specific medical issues emerging from advances in medicine, the life sciences and civil law. Dr. Haas received his Ph.D. in Moral Theology from the Catholic University of America and his S.T.L. in Moral Theology from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Before assuming the Presidency of The National Catholic Bioethics Center, Dr. Haas was the John Cardinal Krol Professor of Moral Theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia and Adjunct Professor at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies in Marriage and the Family, Washington, D.C. For a number of years he produced and hosted an national television program known as The St. Charles Forum which was carried on the Catholic network EWTN.
Mark Bonocore
Mark Bonocore is a veteran of the Los Angeles motion picture industry, where
he worked as a writer-producer for several major studios, including Columbia
Pictures-Tristar, Warner Bros., and Walt Disney TV Animation. A graduate of
Temple University film school, Mark went on to work under Jon Peters and
Anton Furst at Columbia Pictures-Tri-Star, where he wrote and developed
several studio projects, including the ill-fated Midknight with Michael
Jackson. As a staff producer for O Pictures and Ridley Scott's RSA/USA,
Mark wrote and co-produced the TV pilot Horizon, as well as the science
fiction feature, Psion Framer. He later went on to develop and co-write
several projects for Walt Disney TV Animation, including Beowulf and The
Count of Monte Cristo, as well as working as a development consultant for a
number of Hollywood production companies and agencies, such as
Simpson-Brukheimer, Carolco, Arnold Copelson Productions, ICM, Paradigm,
Gersh, and Sanford Skouras Gross & Associates. As co-founder and Creative
Director for the Philadelphia-based Category 5 Entertainment, Mark is
currently engaged in producing the 3D animated fantasy-adventure epic, Sons
of Heaven.
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WHERE:
Ivy Hall, 6331 Lancaster Ave., Philadelphia 19151 [click here for directions]
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