Hollywood industry insiders join a team of Elon LA alumni to serve as project submission judges.
A group of elite Hollywood industry insiders, two of them Emmy Award winners and four of them Elon alumni, have been chosen to serve as members of the selection committee for the 2025-26 Elon University Los Angeles Alumni Short Film Grant competition. Supported with contributions, in part, from the Elon Los Angeles alumni community, the project will award $3,000 to each of three Elon LA-area alumni for the production of their original, unproduced short films in the first half of 2026.
Emmy Award-winning writer, producer and showrunner (“Lost,” House,” “The Good Wife”) and Elon parent Leonard Dick P’20 (father of Julie Dick ’20), Emmy Award-winning producer Marsha Posner Williams (“The Golden Girls”) and actor Eric Rollins will join with Elon LA-based alumni filmmakers award- Frankie Campisano ’16, Mia Ginae Watkins ’16, Lauren Duncan ’18 and Alyssa Needham ’19 to read, rank and judge the 2025-26 competition submissions received. The submission window for project proposals closed on Oct. 1.
Award recipients will be announced in early December 2026. Funded projects will require the alumni filmmakers to include the participation of students from the Elon University Los Angeles spring 2026 semester experience in various production, performance and other capacities.
The three fund-supported films will have their premiere screenings in late July 2026 at the first Elon University Los Angeles Alumni Film Festival.
Elon alumni Jordan Roman ‘15 and Macy Mills ‘23 (Mills also serves as Elon University Los Angeles program assistant) are the short film grant project’s co-chairs.