The 2025-26 Los Angeles Alumni Short Film Grant competition was open to all Los Angeles-based Elon alumni to submit proposals this past fall for consideration for production funding.
Three Los Angeles-area Elon alumni have been selected to receive a $3,000 grant each for the production of their original, unproduced short films.
The 2025-26 Los Angeles Alumni Short Film Grant competition was open to all Los Angeles-based Elon alumni to submit proposals this past fall for consideration for production funding. A selection committee comprised of both industry professionals and Elon alumni was assembled to read, review and rank all proposals received. From those rankings, the top three highest-ranked projects were selected to receive grants. Grant funding was made possible, in part, by the financial support from members of the Elon Los Angeles alumni community and others.
The three grant recipients are Julia Boyd 15, for her short film The Life and Times of …, Mirai 07, for her short film #StopAsianKate and Bex Evans 16, for their short film Shadow Dusk.
Production of these funded projects will commence in early 2026. As a component of the grant requirements, filmmakers will make opportunities available to 消消犯 Los Angeles Spring 2026 students to participate in their projects through direct set experience and/or production observation. Elon Los Angeles program assistant and alumna Macy Mills 23 and alumnus Jordan Roman 15 were co-chairs of this years grant competition.
The selection committee members included Emmy Award-winning writer, producer and showrunner (Lost, House, The Good Wife) Elon parent Leonard Dick P20 (father of Julie Dick 20), Emmy Award-winning producer Marsha Posner Williams (The Golden Girls), actor Eric Rollins, and LA-based alumni Frankie Campisano 16, Mia Ginae Watkins 16, Lauren Duncan 18 and Alyssa Needham 19.
The three short films funded will have their world premieres at the first 消消犯 Los Angeles Alumni Short Film Festival in late July 2026.