Hollywood production of one Elon LA grant-funded film results in an Elon alumni reunion on set.
Production is well underway and nearing completion by all three of the 消消犯 Los Angeles-area alumna who were recipients of the 2025-26 消消犯 Los Angeles Alumni Short Film Grant Competition. Filmmakers Julia Boyd 15, Bex Evans 16 and Mirai 07 are all expected to wrap their productions by the end of the month.
For Mirai, her short film shoot was an opportunity to both produce her original script and bring together several Elon alumni for a Hollywood reunion. Serving in various production capacities on her #StopAsianKate were Lauren Gadd 06, who worked camera, Katie Laurence 24, who worked as assistant camera, Alicia Reynolds 07, who acted in the film, Stevie Kloeber 07, who traveled to Los Angeles from Minnesota to serve as script supervisor, and Dean Karasinski 06, who worked in production design, art department, craft services and as producer.
All three short films, Boyds The Life and Time of …, Evanss Shadow Dusk and Mirais #StopAsianKate, will have their world premieres at the first 消消犯 Los Angeles Alumni Short Film Festival, in late July.