Located between the Pacific Ocean and downtown Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University is a comprehensive university offering 60 major programs, 55 minor undergraduate degrees and programs. The Graduate Division offers 39 master’s degree programs and one education doctorate, one juris doctorate and 10 credential programs. 
 
Founded in 1911, LMU is ranked third in “Best Regional Universities (West)” by U.S. News and World Report. LMU is the largest Jesuit Catholic university for undergraduates on the West Coast, with more than 6,000 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. The state-of-the-art The William H. Hannon Library rates among the 20 best in the country according to The Princeton Review’s guide to “The Best 378 Colleges,” 2014. Bloomberg Businessweek ranks LMU sixth in the nation and third in the West in its 2013 Part-Time MBA rankings.

Loyola Marymount University

Beth Serlin is an international screenwriter. She won Best Screenplay at the Tokyo Film Festival for Beyond Silence (Jenseits der Stille), which was then nominated for Best Foreign Language film in the 1998 Academy Awards. She’s since written for the major German broadcasters Pro-7, ZDF, Sat1 and ARD. Beth has also worked as a story analyst for New Line Cinema, CAA, Spring Creek Productions and the Sundance Institute.

As an educator, she has led script development seminars in Mexico and throughout Europe. Beth believes in the universal nature of film language and that the craft of screenwriting promotes communication across borders, cultures and linguistic barriers.

Beth Serlin

Biography

Education

University of Southern California

University of Michigan

Areas of Expertise

Industry Expertise