Beth Serlin

Title: Assistant Professor
Education: BA, University of Michigan / MFA, USC
Areas of Specialization: Short and Feature Film Writing, Adaptation
Program Track: Screenwriting
Phone: 310-258-4675
E-mail:bserlin@lmu.edu

Beth Serlin is an international screenwriter, winning Best Screenplay at the Tokyo Film Festival for “Beyond Silence”, which was then nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in the 1998 Academy Awards. She’s since written for Pro-7, ZDF, Sat1 and ARD, all major German broadcasters. Her feature script “Melting” is casting for production in 2008 and she’s currently adapting the Japanese mini-series “Pure Soul” for the American market.

Serlin has also worked as a story analyst for New Line Cinema, CAA, Spring Creek Productions and the Sundance Institute. Her production experience spans an array of New York-based projects including four feature films.

As an educator she has led script development seminars in Germany, Holland, Denmark, England, Ireland and Mexico. During 2003/2004 she was invited to the University of Michigan as the ‘Peter and Barbara Benedek Artist-in-Residence’ and was an adjunct lecturer at USC’s School of Cinema-Television. Beth believes in the universal nature of film language and how the craft of screenwriting promotes communication across borders, cultures and linguistic barriers.