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With Open Arms

At the end of 2022, you hopefully read all about filmmaker Victoria Bullock and her longtime support of MPTF including The Grey Quill Society. This year her wife, Maria C. Rodriguez, a Partner at McDermott Will & Emery, played her part for MPTF by asking her...

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Conversations with the Artist: Ron Howard

MPTF Studios' Jennifer Clymer interviews Director Ron Howard about the creative process making his new film, Thirteen Lives. Presented live on MPTF Studios’ Creative Chaos on January 5, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3H51RIf1e0

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Lights, Camera, Take Action!

Aired live on Los Angeles' KTLA 5 on December 10, 2022, MPTF's first live telethon is hosted by Yvette Nicole Brown and Tom Bergeron, and produced by Phil Rosenthal and David Wild. Thank you to our presenting sponsors, City National Bank and UCLA Health. To donate...

Tom Bergeron and Yvette Nicole Brown

The Magic of Radio

Bringing you “Radio You Can See” to raise funds for MPTF, the Hollywood Radio Players deliver delightful hybrid Zoom productions reimagining Golden Age radio plays with today’s actors for a new audience each month. These shows are produced by actors and radio...

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Tom Bergeron on KTLA

Tom Bergeron appears on KTLA on December 6, 2022 to talk about his career including hosting MPTF's "Lights, Camera, Take Action!" telethon. Read more at KTLA....

Tom Bergeron on KTLA

James Burrows

Hawk Koch welcomes James Burrows, director of more than 1,000 episodes of sitcom television and recipient of 11 Emmy Awards and 5 Directors Guild of America Awards. His five-decade career began in theater from building sets to stage managing to his masterful...

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Stephen Galloway

Hawk Koch welcomes Stephen Galloway, Emmy Award-winning journalist, producer, and current dean of Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the...

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NextGen’s Monica Macer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iTgf71Sn0A Encouraged by a mentor in New Jersey while assistant directing a stage play, Monica Macer decided to follow her dreams and move to L.A. with her future husband. Starting as an assistant at Nickelodeon Movies on the...

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