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New Century Connects Alumnus to
Production Funding

Connecticut based New Century Writer Awards annual not-for-profit writing competition, as operated by New
Century Cinema Group, has connected 1998 award alumnus Lisa Kors to investor financing for her independent feature DINNER AND A MOVIE.

Kors, a graduate of the University of Southern California with an MFA in Film Production won a Golden Plaque from the Chicago International Film Festival, and Best of Festival awards from the Atlanta and New England Film Festivals for her first film, SHAYNA MAIDENS: ORTHODOX JEWISH TEENAGE GIRLS. She has created
and written television specials for Lifetime Television and NBC.

Kors makes her debut as a feature director with DINNER, best described as “Woody Allen on estrogen,” which chronicles an idealistic documentary filmmaker named Katie as she’s coerced into making a PBS piece on dating. Principal photography began September 8th in Massachusetts.

The cast includes Paul Bartel (EATING RAOUL), Anita Gillette (MOONSTRUCK), Tony Award winner Lynne Thipen, and up-and-comers Maryann Hagan (FRIENDS, LAW&ORDER), Mike Dooley (SEX IN THE CITY, LAW&ORDER), and Dave Gibbs (SEINFELD, BEVERLY HILLS 90210). Production information available at the film’s Web site at hippiechickflix.com

New Century, headed by Jason Marchi and Mike Timm, is
supported by Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope All Story and American Zoetrope, and Anthony Michael Hall’s AMH
Entertainment Group. The financing partner is start-up Fortuna Films, headed by Alice Thompson, founder and former director of Film Fest New Haven.