Rex Sikes' Movie Beat

ALAN L. GANSBERG Dean of the College of Columbia College Hollywood, a fully accredited private college offering degrees in Cinema and Cinema/TV. While running the key areas of the College, Gansberg continues his career as a writer-producer and occasional director. He has written and/or produced more than 100 hours of television, created more than a dozen nationally-distributed documentaries, and directed several longform TV projects. Gansberg has been nominated for four Emmy Awards (two for writing, one for producing, and one for documentary writing), and is a part winner and long-time trustee of The Humanitas Prize, which Daily Variety has called “The Pulitzer Prize of television writing.” He has also been honored with two Ohio State Awards, and been nominated or won a host of other honors, including nominations for the Writers Guild of America Award and the NAACP Image Award. Among his credits are “My Past is My Own?” a CBS film starring Whoopi Goldberg, for which Gansberg won the Humanitas Prize, “Li