ABOUT ARLENE
email Arlene  Arlene Bogna is an award-winning writer/director. She has won the Platinum Aurora Award for Best of Show. a Telly Award, a Remi Award, and a Davey Award for the PSA "Canvas" which is currently airing on broadcast television and screening as an official entry in independent film festivals. "Canvas" was produced by the prestigious Women In Film (WIF) PSA Program and co-funded by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. The PSA describes and benefits the charity A Window Between Worlds, a national nonprofit organization that uses art workshops as a means to heal mothers and children who have experienced domestic violence. Bogna's feature screenplay "Earth Kids", which she co-wrote with Nicole Schubert, won 1st Place for "Best Feature Screenplay" at the 2007 KIDS FIRST! Film Festival Awards as well as the Sponsor Award. Arlene began her entertainment career in motion graphic design and visual effects. In 2002 she was nominated for a Golden Trailer Award in Best Art Direction for her work on the trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's "Signs". As an art director in motion picture advertising, she worked on projects for Disney, Paramount, Warner Bros, Pandora, Universal, and Dreamworks. Ms. Bogna seems to have been born a director. Even as a small child, she would hike out to the Angeles Forest, where she staged and photographed scenes with her casts of dolls and stuffed animals. In high school she became an art major and learned how to film events. She then majored in film and literature at UCLA and spent a year studying cinema and mass media at the Universita di Bologna, Italy. Her first directorial project is the narrative short "Patriot Johnny" which she wrote and co-produced about an Iraq war veteran who comes home to find his world has changed. Currently she is working on a comedy she wrote called "Whoa Nellie!" in which a young woman starts a different life after receiving some dire news. In 2007 she launched Vista Point Pictures, a post production business that provides creative services in title design, key art, and visual effects for the Indie Filmmaker. ART GALLERY Arlene's Fine Art Portfolio Besides her film directing career, Arlene is an emerging painter and photographer and exhibiting in Los Angeles. She is an artist member of the Los Angeles Art Association and is exhibitng her solo show SAFARI AMERICANA: SCENES OF DELIGHT at Gallery 825 June 21 - July 18, 2008. For more info about Arlene's Fine Art, click here. Check out her blog rockstar friggin' awesome.	The REEL Click here to see the Directing Reel. The NEWS Director Wins "Best of Show" Award Read the article in MOVING PICTURES Screenplay gets 1st Prize AND Sponsor Award WRITING Written by Arlene Bogna
AWARDS 2007 "Platinum Best of Show" Aurora Award for CANVAS 2007 Telly Award for CANVAS 2007 Davey Award for CANVAS NOMINATIONS 2002 - Golden Trailer Awards Best Art Direction for "SIGNS" Trailer 2008 Remi Award for CANVAS 2007 - KIDS FIRST! Best Screenplay Award for EARTH KIDS 2007 - KIDS FIRST! Sponsor Award for EARTH KIDS	NARRATIVE WORK Canvas - TV spot (PSA) Patriot Johnny (trailer)
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