Special Guests

Bernard is pleased to welcome many top industry professionals to his classes. He would like to thank the artists below who have shared their time and insights with his students.

 

Partial List:

EDWARD ZWICK - Academy Award winning Director & Producer-                      "Shakespeare in Love, Traffic, The Last Samurai & Legends of the Fall"

JANE JENKINS - Casting Director- "Angels and Demons, Frost/Nixon,                                     A Beautiful Mind, Transformers, The Da Vinci Code"

SIMON BEAUFOY - Academy Award winning screenwriter-                                                              "Slumdog Millionaire, Full Monty"

STEPHEN FREARS - Two Time Academy Award Nominee- Director "The Queen"
                                                                                                         “& Dangerous Liaisons"

PETER GALLAGHER - Actor - "Sex, Lies and Videotape,
                                                                American Beauty,The O.C."

VINCE CIRRINCIONE - Manager - "Halle Berry"

JAMES HORNER - 10 time Academy Award Nominated Composer-
                                            "Avatar, Titanic (Original Song, My Heart Will Go On)"

A.R. RAHMAN - 2 time Oscar winning Composer - BAFTA
                                 and Golden Globe winner - "Slumdog Millionaire"

BRETT RATNER - Director- "Rush Hour, Red Dragon, X-Men 3"


BRIAN GRAZER - Oscar Winning Producer- "The Da Vinci Code,
                                   Angels & Demons, A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon"

GUY RIEDEL - Executive Producer- "Wedding Crashers, Cloverfield
                                                and New Harrison Ford film"

JUNIE LOWRY-JOHNSON - 6 time Emmy Winning Casting Director-
                                 "Desperate Housewives, Trueblood, Bruce Almighty"


ERWIN STOFF - Executive Producer- "Water for Elephants, I Am Legend, The Matrix, Austin Powers 2"


ANDY TENNANT - Director- "Hitch, Bounty Hunter"

JOE ROTH - Chairman of "The Walt Disney Studios & 20th Century Fox"

PETER GUBER - Academy Award Winner-Producer "Rain Man, Batman
                                                                                                         “& The Color Purple"

MARK HARRIS - Academy Award Winner-Producer "Crash"

BOBBY MORESCO - Academy Award Winner-Writer "Crash"

DAVID WARD - Academy Award Winner- Writer "The Sting"

JACKIE EARLE HALEY - Academy Award- Supporting Actor Nominee
                                                                                “Little Children” & Watchmen”

EMILIO RIVERA - Actor-
              "Sons of Anarchy, Oscar winning Traffic, Bruce Almighty"

ED LACHMAN - DP -Academy Award Nominee- "Far From Heaven"

MICHEAL OHOVEN - Academy Award Nominee- Producer "Capote"

DENISE CHAMIAN - Casting Director- "Saving Private Ryan"

APRIL WEBSTER - Emmy Award Winning Casting Director- "Super 8, Star Trek, Mission Impossible"

RANDY HILLER - Casting Director- "Crash, Iron Man & Iron Man 2"

DEBRA AQUILA - Casting Director- "Shawshank Redemption"

GARRY MARSHALL - Director- "Pretty Woman, Valentines Day"

Several agents from CAA, Innovative Artists, Metropolitan Talent Agency, 3 Arts Management and many more.