Babycat/Villainess Productions

About Me

I came back to UCLA from another career (legal) and initially thought all I wanted to do was write. So following that thought, I Completed the UCLA Extension Screenwriters Program, the UCLA Writers Program, and the Television Writing Program, and was admitted (after full script submissions and selection) to advanced screenwriting (twice).

Because I wanted to direct, I went on to earn the UCLA Extension Certificate in Film and Television. My emphasis was in Producing/Directing. I have also earned the Global Entertainment Marketplace Producers certificate (during this program I went to Cannes and had the good fortune to have Amotz for an instructor), and the Portable Auteur Program Certificate.

To learn as I worked I Interned, for California Film Commission Dir. Amy Lemish. Presently I Intern, at Gold Circle Films, where I read and cover bad scripts along with an occasional gem.

As a writer, over the past few years, I wrote six spec film scripts (thrillers, an action adventure, and buddy/romantic comedies), plus one buddy comedy with a co-writer. I also wrote Spec scripts for one hour dramas (legal only), cartoons. I also conceived and wrote Feng Shui, Inc. (signing a world famous Feng Shui Master as the talent) and two other original lifestyle shows. For these shows I wrote the treatments, episode plans, and shooting formats.

I was selected and participated as a producer, Rutger Hauer FilmFactory 2008 in Rotterdam, NL. I was the Producer of a FilmFactory short, “The Ties That Bind”, and we showed it at the Rotterdam Film Festival (and had a crazy private after party). I was also the Producer of a Station Indent. “Thriller” for NBC/Universal 13th Street (Europe) while I was at FilmFactory. We made that 60 second spot within thirty hours. My team wrote the story collaboratively, and we shot it on location within three hours (including a complicated stunt) and had it edited and showed it to NBC by the following afternoon. A slightly tightened version is now showing on that channel.

During my time there, I enjoyed a working friendship with Rutger (who is amazing, and I am now helping him bring his teaching method and a version of his program to the US. I am hopeful that he will be able to teach a class or a program sometime in the next six months.

As a writer I am working on two more original lifestyle shows and I am developing ideas for three sports related shows for a known sports figure. I am polishing a feature script for festivals, and as part of the Entertainment Studies program, I am Writing, Developing and Producing “ In The Middle” as a festival short.

Recently my short script Stand Off was selected for an open reading durin the Giffon Film Festival. This month the same script moved into the First Round (One of the One Hundred remaining Finalists) of the American Gem Competition.

Vivian Lee Arber-Moore
8033 Sunset Blvd. #576
Los Angeles, California 90046
E-mail: Babycatproductions@mac.com

Objective: As a writer/director, I am seeking to expand my filmic vision and realize ever greater potential by sharpening my craft through experience.

Relevant Education
January 2008, Selected and participated as a producer, Rutger Hauer FilmFactory, ROTTERDAM, NL

2005-2007 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA EXTENSION LOS ANGELES, CA
Area of Emphasis: Film and Television
• Completed the UCLA Extension Screenwriters Program
• After selection from my screenplay submission, I completed Advanced Screenwriting.
• Completed the UCLA Writers Program
• Completed UCLA Extension Television Writing Program
• Completed UCLA Extension Certificate in Film and Television, Emphasis in Producing/Directing
• Completed UCLA Extension Global Entertainment Producers Program at Cannes
• Completed UCLA Extension Portable Auteur Digital Filmmaking Program
• Completed UCLA Extension Apple Authorized Final Cut Pro Training

Entertainment Internships
Presently Intern, Gold Circle Development LOS ANGELES, CA
• Read and wrote coverage of script submissions.

April - Nov. 2006 - Intern, California Film Commission Dir. Amy Lemish LOS ANGELES, CA
• Special Projects, co-authorship of location trending for twenty years of the top earning movies and Oscar winners, and found Art and Design school to design new advertising and publicity materials for the California Film Commission.

Film Experience
Currently writing, producing, and directing “ In The Middle” a festival short. Writing, developing and producing “Feng Shui, Inc.” a lifestyle television series.
January 2008, Producer, FilmFactory short, “The Ties That Bind,” 2008 Rotterdam Film Festival
January 2008-, Producer of Station Ident. “Thriller” for NBC/Universal 13th Street (Europe)
December 2007, Producer Short “Answered Prayers”
October 2007, Producer Webisodes “Who Killed Summer?”
March 2007, “Kara’s File” First Assistant Director
October 2006, “Bonnie and Clyde-The Myth Ends” First Assistant Director
July 2006, Crossed Bone -Writer/Director/Producer
July 2006, Devil’s in the Detail’s-Writer/Director/ Producer,
June 2006 - Day Dreams of Valentino Script advisor.

Writing Experience
Since completing the writers programs at UCLA, I regularly write film scripts with the hope that one day I will have the opportunity to work on my own films as a writer/director.

Other Skills and Experience
1990 to Present, Legal/Technical writing letters, settlements, speeches, openings, closings, depositions, interrogatory questions, demands, and contracts. Evaluations of depositions, interrogatories, and testimony. Case strategy, litigation prevention, evaluation/prediction of opposition. Analysis of opposition strategies. Emphasis on contracts, and litigation. I attended Law School, and was top of limy second year class (I am not an attorney).

Experience with Computer Programs, and other Film Related Skills
Fluent with Personal Computers, Word, Word Perfect, Final Draft, and Schedule. Basic Apple skills. I completed Apple certified Final Cut Pro Training Level I. Library, Internet, and Legal research.

Proficient with Mac and PC; Microsoft Office applications Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Final Cut Pro, and Final Draft. Office Skills, administration, copying, document preparation, assembly, mailing, filing, management, and organization. Library/Internet research.

Additional References and/or educational information supplied upon request.

Goal

Working, writing, and producing entertaining stories, as I learn and expand my abilities and contacts within the industry.

Professional Experience

Screenwriter
Baby Cat Productions
February 2006 - Present

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