Cheryl Boone-Isaacs: Last News

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentCheryl Boone Isaacs has been named founding director of the newly established Sidney Poitier New American Film School at Arizona State U. Boone Isaacs will be director of the three-campus film school starting Jan. 1.

BreAnna Bell Hollywood veterans Cheryl Boone Isaacs and Peter Murrieta are optimistic that “so much is possible” in the future as Hollywood and the entertainment industry at large expands by making room for more diverse stories and perspectives across the board. Murrieta and Boone Isaacs spoke Thursday at an event to herald the recent launch of Arizona State University’s Sidney Poitier New American Film School, a program that launched earlier this year in downtown Los Angeles in the famed former Los Angeles Herald Examiner building at Broadway and 11th streets. Boone Isaacs is founding director of the Poitier school while Murrieta serves as deputy director and professor of practice, The two joined several other faculty members to discuss how Hollywood can grow its business and audience base by making strides on inclusion and representation during a panel on the future of film education.

Veteran Marketing and Public Relations executive and former President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Cheryl Boone Isaacs has been named to serve as Founding Director of The Sidney Poitier New American Film School. Boone Isaacs who is currently an adjunct professor at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts will begin as director the new three-campus  film school at ASU  starting on January 1, 2022. She plans to lead both from the ASU California Center in Los Angeles as well as from Tempe and Mesa where the state-of-the-art 118,000-square foot campus is located.