Lane Doc Fest

Lifetime Achievement Award Recepient – Michael A. Schultz

Michael Schultz’s career spans five decades in theater, film and television. He was a founding member of the world-famous Negro Ensemble Company, the renowned off-Broadway theater group that was the training ground for Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights and countless actors of quality. His first off-Broadway production, Song of the Lusitanian Bogey, earned him an OBIE Award for Best Director. His first play on Broadway, Does A Tiger Wear A Necktie? earned him a Tony nomination and a Tony Award for its star, Al Pacino.

This recognition led to his first feature film directing assignment on the acclaimed To be Young, Gifted, and Black. As a feature filmmaker, Schultz helmed the 1970s classics Cooley High, Car Wash, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Last Dragon, Krush Groove and many more. Car Wash won two awards at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, for Best Music and the Jury Prize for Exceptional Technique. The 1980s saw him discovering talents like Denzel Washington, LL Cool J and Blair Underwood.

In the 1990s, Schultz directed many network telefilms and several two-hour movies for George Lucas’ Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. His episodic series credits include Picket Fences, The Practice, Boston Public, Ally McBeal, Touched By An Angel, JAG, The Gilmore Girls, and The O.C. More recently, he has directed episodes of Lincoln Heights, October Road, Brothers & Sisters, Dirty, Sexy Money, and Women’s Murder Club. Schultz also produced and directed the Warner Bros. series Everwood. His most recent feature film, Woman Thou Art Loosed, won the Best Film award from The American Black Film Festival and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, as well as a directing honor from The Black Reel Awards.

A DGA member since 1973, Michael Schultz has served as a co-chair of the Guild’s African American Steering Committee and was an alternate on the Western Directors Council from 1993-94.

Festival director Paul Rivas(right) and Lane College President Dr. Hampton(left). We are very excited to be hosting our very first film festival at Lane College. Thank you to all film submitters for helping our dreams come true!

A group of friends aged 69 to 99 refuse to hang up their skates and give up on fun.
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Jennifer ‘JP’ Piper is a multidisciplinary storyteller who loves messing with the boundaries of artform. In 2019, JP created ‘The Representation Hour’ for Triple Bi-Pass on JOYFM Melbourne, exploring q***r representation in pop culture. Her stageplays A Scandal in the Weimar and That Time Everything Went Well And We Were Totally Fine are published via Australian Plays and her short films, Facing the Future, At Home with Anne Zieté, skate. and Breakfast Tea – all created in isolation during Melbourne lockdown – have enjoyed official selection at various film festivals.
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Ben, a young filmmaker at a small college, comes toe to toe with an identity crisis when he investigates a group of 36 students who share one thing in common: his name.
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Ben Greenly, Benjamin Swift, and B(erg)en Hoff are three lovely boys who have gotten so tall since you last saw them. Some consider these filmmakers groomsman at the wedding of comedy and philosophy. Some take them for frauds and dilettantes. Others see them as an embodiment of the holy trinity: Harry, Hermione, and Ron. Greenly is Harry, because he is brave, charismatic, and the face of the company. Swift is Hermione because he is smart and organized. Hoff is Ron, because Dumbledore would only trust him to play with lights.
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