This office acts as our students' lifeline to the entertainment industry. We actively manage student industry opportunities through a comprehensive set of programs, including:

• Career advisement and active connection to key internships
• Pairing students with highly regarded and celebrated industry mentors
• Connection to key SFTV alumni
• Assistance in developing professional portfolios, including DVDs, reels, scripts and other key materials
• Connections to agents, managers, guilds and associations, including DGA, WGA, PGA, SAG, FILM & TVACADEMY, IATSE and SIGGRAPH.
  

Our goal is to first help you develop as a complete artist, and second, to enable you to step confidently into the industry, with significant, credible and relevant experience already under your belt.

WHAT THE OFFICE OF INDUSTRY RELATIONS DOES:

The Office of Industry Relations (OIR) will put into practice many opportunities for SFTV students to get the most out of their career and creative goals.

We will :

• Help students identify, achieve and manage their goal for working within the entertainment (mainstream and independent) and emerging media industries and communities.
• Help students maximize their opportunities, including:
• Making full use of the film festival circuit for highest possible profile exposure and reward
• Helping students create a working career roadmap over the course of their undergrad and graduate years,
• Offering industry networking opportunities in all five of our programs: film and television, animation, screenwriting and recording arts, and
• Creating real-experience outreach to the film and television industries by way of internships, mentorships, special lecture series, workshops and festival field trips.
• Strategizing screenplay and teleplay competitions for maximum benefit,
• Producing the LMU SFTV “Film Outside the Frame” annual student film festival,
• Establishing a global reach for SFTV students in both documentary and narrative filmmaking,
• Managing the Transition After Graduation Program (TAG™), offering film finishing funds, targeted access to key industry leaders and full support for selected top students as they transition into the entertainment and emerging media industries

HOW TO USE THE OFFICE OF INDUSTRY RELATIONS:

Office of Industry Relations 
Office location: St. Roberts Hall #201 (second-floor annex)
Office Phone: 310.258.7200
Office hours (hours are posted or by appointment):

Students should bring with them:
- Key questions
- Samples of their work, including their latest project

WHAT THE OFFICE OF INDUSTRY RELATIONS DOESN'T DO:
- We are not a job placement service
- We do not provide coverage or critical analysis of your work