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Working with the Conference

The Biola Media Conference is sponsored by Biola University’s Cinema and Media Arts department. Media representatives covering the event, its speakers, or its workshops can reach the organizing team directly using the contacts below.

The Biola Media Conference is a gathering hosted by Biola University’s Cinema and Media Arts department, drawing together students, faculty, and professionals from across the film, television, and media industries. The event is designed as a place where emerging storytellers can encounter the working side of the craft, hearing candid accounts of how ideas move from the page to the screen and how careers in media take shape over time. Sessions, screenings, and conversations across the schedule create room for both wide-lens perspective and practical, close-up detail on the work behind the finished production.

Speakers at the conference are invited to talk openly about their experiences in the industry, sharing stories about the moments that changed their direction and the projects that revealed what they were truly called to do. The tone is reflective rather than promotional, offering attendees an honest look at the barriers, boundaries, and opportunities that shape a career in media. Feedback from these conversations tends to linger with students long after the closing session, encouraging them to reconsider their own sense of calling and to imagine the paths their own work might take.

For media representatives, the press page outlines how to approach the organizing team when covering the conference, its speakers, or its workshops. Requests for interviews with speakers, department leadership, or organizers are directed to the appropriate media contact, and announcements issued by the conference team — including the introduction of a new networking lunch format built around one-on-one access to leading industry professionals — are distributed through official press channels. Attendees, vendors, and guests are also asked to respect the terms set out for coverage and use of the premises.

The conference takes place on Biola University’s campus in La Mirada, California, and the broader schedule of screenings, panels, and workshops is published through the event website, including details on registration and venue access. Because Biola is among the nation’s largest Christian universities, the gathering carries a distinctive sensibility: a faith-informed perspective on storytelling, ethics, and purpose that sits alongside rigorous craft discussion. For students and young creatives, the event functions as a rare point of contact between aspiration and practice, and a chance to see how conviction and discipline combine in work that reaches audiences.

Media Contact

For all Biola Media Conference inquiries, contact the conference team:

Highlights from Past Conferences

Speakers and workshops named in previous conference materials include: