IGNITE featuring Gale Anne Hurd
Award-winning Executive Producer
12:30 pm –
1:50 pm
Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts
Target Audiences:
1300 Q Street
Lincoln Ne 68588-0205
Lincoln Ne 68588-0205
Contact:
Megan McMasters, (402) 472-9307, megan.mcmasters@unl.edu
Join us for a special Ignite featuring a conversation with award-winning executive producer Gale Anne Hurd.
Hurd is the founder of Valhalla Entertainment, most recently known for the global cultural phenomenon, Emmy-winning and record-shattering TV series, “The Walking Dead,” and its multiple spin-offs, including “Fear the Walking Dead,” “The Walking Dead: Dead City,” “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” and the “The Ones Who Live.”
Hurd’s extensive producing credits include a range of Academy Award-winning films, with “Aliens” notably earning seven nominations and two wins. Her additional Academy Award-winning works include “The Abyss,” “The Ghost and the Darkness,” “Armageddon,” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” which was recently added to the National Film Registry by the U.S. Library of Congress. Hurd produced and co-wrote “The Terminator.” Some of her additional studio credits include “Tremors,” “The Relic,” “Aeon Flux,” Ang Lee’s “Hulk,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “Alien Nation,” and Sundance Audience Award winner “The Waterdance,” among many others.
Additional Valhalla TV credits include Amazon Prime Video’s “Lore,” SYFY’s limited series “Hunters” and two seasons of “Falling Water” on the USA Network.
On the film side, Valhalla produced the feature film “Hellfest” for Lionsgate, which is currently streaming on Netflix, and “Mankiller,” which chronicles the life of the late Wilma Mankiller, the first woman elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Most recently, Valhalla produced Tribeca Film Festival’s Spotlight Documentary “The YouTube Effect,” which shines light on the spread of misinformation and the algorithms that manipulate public perception.
Her honors include the 2022 Locarno Film Festival’s Best Independent Producer Award, the Cartier Award from the Deauville American Film Festival, Women in Film’s Crystal Award, the Producer’s Guild’s David O. Selznick Best Feature Film Producer Award, the Visual Effect Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and, most recently, the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Online Film Critics Association.
For more on Hurd, visit https://valhallaentertainment.com/about/.
Hurd’s visit is presented by the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts and The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center.
This event is free and open to the public.
Hurd is the founder of Valhalla Entertainment, most recently known for the global cultural phenomenon, Emmy-winning and record-shattering TV series, “The Walking Dead,” and its multiple spin-offs, including “Fear the Walking Dead,” “The Walking Dead: Dead City,” “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” and the “The Ones Who Live.”
Hurd’s extensive producing credits include a range of Academy Award-winning films, with “Aliens” notably earning seven nominations and two wins. Her additional Academy Award-winning works include “The Abyss,” “The Ghost and the Darkness,” “Armageddon,” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” which was recently added to the National Film Registry by the U.S. Library of Congress. Hurd produced and co-wrote “The Terminator.” Some of her additional studio credits include “Tremors,” “The Relic,” “Aeon Flux,” Ang Lee’s “Hulk,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “Alien Nation,” and Sundance Audience Award winner “The Waterdance,” among many others.
Additional Valhalla TV credits include Amazon Prime Video’s “Lore,” SYFY’s limited series “Hunters” and two seasons of “Falling Water” on the USA Network.
On the film side, Valhalla produced the feature film “Hellfest” for Lionsgate, which is currently streaming on Netflix, and “Mankiller,” which chronicles the life of the late Wilma Mankiller, the first woman elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Most recently, Valhalla produced Tribeca Film Festival’s Spotlight Documentary “The YouTube Effect,” which shines light on the spread of misinformation and the algorithms that manipulate public perception.
Her honors include the 2022 Locarno Film Festival’s Best Independent Producer Award, the Cartier Award from the Deauville American Film Festival, Women in Film’s Crystal Award, the Producer’s Guild’s David O. Selznick Best Feature Film Producer Award, the Visual Effect Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and, most recently, the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Online Film Critics Association.
For more on Hurd, visit https://valhallaentertainment.com/about/.
Hurd’s visit is presented by the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts and The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center.
This event is free and open to the public.
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