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Loyola Marymount University is a top-ranked national university by U.S. News and World Report, which places LMU among the top six Jesuit universities in the country and in the top six private universities in California. Founded in 1911, LMU is a Catholic, Jesuit, and Marymount university with more than 7,100 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. LMU offers 56 undergraduate majors and 56 minor programs, along with 46 master’s degree programs, three doctorate programs and 12 credential/authorization programs. LMU’s intercollegiate athletics teams compete in the West Coast Conference with 14 Division I varsity sports.

LMU news and events are found at: www.lmu.edu/news.

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After graduating from Yale University, Frederick Ayeroff’s fiction writing gained him admission to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where he won a Teaching/Writing Fellowship, earned his MFA in Creative Writing and also teamed up with his long-time, Oscar-nominated writing partner, Robert Nelson Jacobs. With and without his partner and friend, Frederick went on to write feature screenplays for many prominent studios and production companies.
 
As a member of both the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada, Frederick has written feature screenplays for Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, Kathleen Kennedy, Robert DeNiro’s Tribeca Films, Tri-Star Pictures, Universal Studios, Peace Arch Films, Reader’s Digest Family Films, Alan Landsburg Productions, Anchor Bay Films, ABC Television, Columbia Pictures Television, Bogner Entertainment, Martin Elfand, Dino De Laurentiis Productions and Twentieth Century Fox. 

Frederick’s produced feature film credits include the family action-drama Ace of Hearts starring Dean Cain (Twentieth Century Fox – 2008).  Ace of Hearts was recently honored as one of the Top Ten most notable releases by FoxFaith.  Frederick also wrote the original screenplay for the family comedy Soccer Mom, starring Missi Pyle (Anchor Bay Films – 2008).  Ace of Hearts and Soccer Mom both won Dove Awards as well as KIDS First! ‘Best’ Awards.  Both motion pictures began as original screenplays written on spec.  Frederick's most recent original feature screenplays are the suspense-thriller Home Fires Burning and the comedy-thriller Killer’s Workshop. In 2022 he associate produced the suspense-thriller Wired Shut, working closely with director Alexander Sharp and screenwriter Peter Malone Elliott to  maximize their screenplay's power and focus. Wired Shut was recently nominated for three prestigious Leo Awards, British Columbia's highest film and television honor, including 'Best Screenwriting for a Motion Picture."

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