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Screenwriter/Producer/Director Tom Musca Named 2006-2007
Moseley Fellow in Creative Writing at Pomona College
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Tom Musca, award-winning screenwriter, producer and
director, has been named the 2006-2007 Moseley Fellow in
Creative Writing at Pomona College. As the Moseley Fellow,
Musca will teach a screenwriting course at Pomona College in
fall 2006.
 Musca first captured attention as the producer and co-writer
of Stand and Deliver, a film about dedicated calculus
teacher, Jaime Escalante, inspiring his dropout-prone
students at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. This
movie garnered outstanding reviews and nabbed many awards,
including six Independent Spirit Awards, among them Best
Picture and Best Screenplay. It was recognized on many of
Top-10 lists and remains a perennial favorite on television.
Musca is currently scripting Bringing the Heat, a
high school chess drama that is scheduled to shoot this
year. Tortilla Soup, his most recently produced
screenplay, won numerous accolades and is the third highest
selling Latino-themed DVD in history. His most recent
teleplay is the school dance extravaganza Gotta Kick it
Up! – a Disney Channel presentation that was the No. 1
cable show of 2003 among pre-teen girls.
The Moseley Fellowship is made possible through funding from
the Louisa and Francis Moseley Memorial Instruction Fund.
The Fund was created in 1985 from an estate gift from
Francis and Louisa Moseley and is used primarily "to support
efforts of the English Department of the College to improve
writing of students."
The fellowship is in its sixth year. Previous Pomona College
Moseley Fellows include: Paula L. Woods, award-winning
mystery author; Verlyn Klinkenborg, an acclaimed essayist,
author and a regular contributor to the New York Times;
Salvador Carrasco, writer and director of the feature film
The Other Conquest; poet B.H. Fairchild, author of
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest; and
Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander.
Pomona College, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
colleges, provides its students with a challenging
curriculum in the humanities, natural sciences, social
sciences, and fine arts, and an unsurpassed environment for
intellectual inquiry and growth. Its hallmarks include small
classes, close relationships between students and faculty,
and a range of opportunities for student research. For more
information on Pomona College, visit www.pomona.edu. |
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