Professors Insure Palos Verdes to be Featured at the Los Angeles Film Festival By Kari H. Sayers
As part of the Los Angeles Film Festival, Bruce Schwartz’s movie JUSTICE FOR LIZZIE, much of which is shot in Palos Verdes, has been selected to play on September 5–Labor Day — at 5 pm at the Regal Cinemas, 1000 W. Olympic Blvd. in downtown Los Angeles.
Bruce Schwartz is a Hollywood filmmaker and a former professor at Marymount California University in Rancho Palos Verdes.
Producer and Director Bruce Schwartz with the two leads, Stephen Spear as sheriff Ed Cronin and Nancy Nazari as mystery writer and amateur sleuth Megan Viets
The movie is based on a novel by long-time Rancho Palos resident Kari H. Sayers and co-produced by Greg Levonian, also a professor at Marymount and a 50-year resident of Palos Verdes Estates. Justice for Lizzie is a feature-length film, a murder mystery, inspired by a true case and features Nancy Nazari as the amateur sleuth Megan Viets and Stephen Spear as her fiance Sheriff Cronin,
All are welcome to the screening.
Tickets are available online, or at the cinema complex before the showing. Click on the links below for photos and more information
Kari H. Sayers BIO
With a BA in English and an MA in linguistics from California State University, Long Beach, Kari Sayers went with her husband to Saudi Arabia, where she first worked as a music teacher at Riyadh International Community School and then as a journalist for the English newspapers the Saudi Gazette and the Arab News as well as in-flight magazines. When she returned to Southern California, she taught literature, college composition, and English as a Second Language at Marymount California University in Rancho Palos Verdes, while freelancing as a theater, classical concert, and opera reviewer for local newspapers and magazines in the Los Angeles area.. In addition to authoring the novels Roses Where Thorns Grow, Under the Linden Tree, and the soon-to-be-released Justice for Lizzie, all published by Melange Books in Minnesota, she is the developer and editor of the anthology Views and Values, published by Cengage. Now widowed,. Kari lives in the Los Angeles area.
