{"id":14399,"date":"2019-08-09T14:44:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T21:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/dodge\/2019\/08\/09\/bill-gerber-selected-as-distinguished-artist\/"},"modified":"2019-08-09T14:44:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T21:44:11","slug":"bill-gerber-selected-as-distinguished-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/2019\/08\/09\/bill-gerber-selected-as-distinguished-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Producer Bill Gerber Selected as Fall 2019 Marion Knott Distinguished Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Producer Bill Gerber<\/a> (\u201cA Star is Born,\u201d \u201cGran Torino,\u201d \u201cA Very Long Engagement\u201d) will join the Dodge College faculty as the fall 2019 Marion Knott Distinguished Artist.<\/p>\n

Academy Award nominee Bill Gerber has spent over 30 years in the film business in several positions including President of Production at Warner Brothers Pictures and as Producer on such films as “A Star is Born”, “Gran Torino”, “A Very Long Engagement” and “Grudge Match”. He has had a hand in dozens of movies including: “LA Confidential”, “JFK”, “Heat”, “You\u2019ve Got Mail”, “The Perfect Storm”, “Three Kings”, and the “Harry Potter” Series. He has also an Emmy nomination for Executive Producing the TV movie “James Dean”.<\/p>\n

Before joining Warner Brothers, Gerber was a partner at Lookout Management, a premier Music Management Company that has over the years represented such Classic Rock Artists as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Tom Petty, The Cars and Devo. Gerber attended Beverly Hills High School and the University of California, Santa Cruz where he studied music and environmental science.<\/p>\n

Gerber serves on the boards of the Environmental Media Association, Center for Early Education, and Los Angeles 2024.<\/p>\n

Every semester, Dodge College hosts expert filmmakers to meet with and counsel selected scholars, as part of its Distinguished Artists program. This popular program includes regular, bi-weekly meetings with the filmmaker in a one-on-one setting where the student and mentor have the opportunity to develop a specific creative project throughout the semester. In addition, the filmmakers interact with the larger Chapman community at weekly dinners open to students and screenings of the filmmaker\u2019s films followed by an in-class Q&A. As an artist-in-residence, Gerber will share the creative thinking and processes behind producing some of the biggest blockbusters over the last 30 years.<\/p>\n

Past Filmmakers-in-Residence at Chapman have included writer, producer and director Dean Devlin<\/strong> (\u201cIndependence Day,\u201d \u201cGodzilla\u201d, \u201cIndependence Day: Resurgence\u201d); Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs<\/strong>; Academy Award winning Visual Effects supervisor Richard Edlund<\/strong> (\u201cStar Wars: A New Hope,\u201d \u201cStar Wars: The Empire Strikes Back,\u201d \u201cRaiders of the Lost Ark,\u201d \u201cStar Wars: The Return of the Jedi\u201d); award-winning director, writer and producer Michael Apted<\/strong> (\u201cUp\u201d series, \u201cGorillas in the Midst,\u201d \u201cCoal Miner\u2019s Daughter,\u201d \u201cThe World is Not Enough\u201d); Rob Cohen<\/strong>, the renowned filmmaker behind such blockbuster hits as \u201cThe Fast and the Furious,\u201d \u201cThe Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor\u201d and \u201cxXx\u201d; Academy Award\u00ae-winning producer Cathy Schulman<\/strong> (\u201cCrash,\u201d \u201cThe Illusionist,\u201d \u201cSalvation Boulevard\u201d); Academy Award\u00ae-nominated producer JoAnne Sellar<\/strong> (\u201cThere Will Be Blood,\u201d \u201cBoogie Nights,\u201d \u201cMagnolia\u201d), award-winning director Donald Petrie<\/strong> (\u201cMiss Congeniality,\u201d \u201cHow to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,\u201d \u201cGrumpy Old Men,\u201d \u201cMystic Pizza\u201d); Hollywood producer Cathleen Summers<\/strong> (\u201cThe Sandlot,\u201d \u201cStakeout,\u201d \u201cAnother Stakeout\u201d); director and producer Betty Thomas<\/strong> (\u201cDr. Doolittle,\u201d \u201cPrivate Parts,\u201d \u201cBrady Bunch Movie,\u201d \u201cI Spy\u201d); screenwriter and producer Leslie Dixon<\/strong> (\u201cMrs. Doubtfire,\u201d \u201cHairspray,\u201d \u201cLimitless\u201d); director and producer Jonathan Sanger<\/strong> (\u201cVanilla Sky,\u201d \u201cThe Elephant Man,\u201d \u201cThe Producers\u201d); director Sheldon Epps (\u201cFriends,\u201d \u201cFrasier\u201d), producer Michael Phillips<\/strong> (\u201cTaxi Driver,\u201d \u201cClose Encounters of the Third Kind\u201d); director Martha Coolidge<\/strong> (\u201cReal Genius,\u201d \u201cRambling Rose,\u201d \u201cValley Girl\u201d); and film and TV producer Gary Foster<\/strong> (\u201cDaredevil,\u201d \u201cSleepless in Seattle,\u201d \u201cGhost Rider\u201d).<\/p>\n

*Fall 2019 Course Offering:<\/strong>
\nFTV 310\/510 Industry Insiders with Bill Gerber<\/a><\/strong>
\nMondays, 7-9:45 p.m. | Folino Theater<\/strong>
\nInstructor: Alex Rose<\/strong><\/p>\n

*Open to all students<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Known for \u201cA Star is Born,\u201d \u201cGran Torino,\u201d and \u201cA Very Long Engagement\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"featured_media":14434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[911,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/dodge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}