Arlene Bogna
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Arlene Bogna is an award-winning director with a passion for storytelling. She won a 2009 Davey Award for "Beauty World," a :30 spot which mashes together humor and the world of beauty for Almay Pure Blends. "Beauty World" is airing nationally.
Ms. Bogna has won the Platinum Aurora Award for Best of Show, a Telly Award, a Remi Award, and a Davey Award for the PSA "Canvas," airing on national 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. Shot like a narrative film, 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. Bogna and Schubert are currently writing a female action buddy comedy.
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. Arlene is well-traveled and speaks three languages.
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 western melodrama feature project.
Besides her film directing career, Arlene is a painter and photographer exhibiting in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in ArtScene, Metromix, Los Angeles Times, MutualArt, SCWCA, & ExperienceLA.
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