What do Destin Daniel Cretton, Bekah Macias, Brad Kester, Jared Callahan and Hollywood veteran Kathleen Kennedy have in common?
All are filmmakers who attended college in San Diego and just this week, all have been honored for their work in film.
Kennedy, who co-produced “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” was celebrating Thursday after the movie dominated the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards.
“This never gets old,” Kennedy told the San Diego Union-Tribune Thursday from her office in Santa Monica. She graduated from SDSU in 1975 with a degree in telecommunications, the paper reported.
Destin Daniel Cretton, Bekah Macias, Brad Kester, Jared Callahan are all Point Loma Nazarene University alumni who won the U.S. Jury Prize for short films at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival Tuesday for their film “Short Term 12.”
There were 96 films in the category accepted to the festival out of 5,632 submissions.
