My Hollywood Career

Speaker: 
Corey Moss
 
12 Nov 2009
 
7:00 PM
 
Great Hall, Memorial Union

Corey Moss codirected, wrote and produced a 78-minute feature documentary Dear Jack about the Jack's Mannequin/Something Corporate singer Andrew McMahon and his bout with leukemia at the age of 22. He is an executive producer at Yahoo! Originals, where he created "Primetime in No Time," the highest-rated show on the Web. He has also written and directed short films starring Jackie Chan, Brett Ratner and Jamie Kennedy. debuted in front of the cameras on MTV and was their resident American Idol expert for several year. He later appeared on Fuse's "Videos that Rocked the World," "10 Great Reasons" and "Live Through This." Moss, who graduated from Iowa State with a journalism degree, is also an entertainment journalist who has been published in Spin, Rolling Stone and Vibe.
A screening of DEAR JACK will follow at 8 p.m.