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Alumni Profile: Doug Crise

 
It sounds like the stuff of dreams. A young man, inspired by the movies, leaves the farm roads of his Pennsylvania hometown and sets his sights on California, dreaming. In his 20s, he walks away from his small-town job as a supermarket meat cutter, but he can’t yet imagine that, one day, he will stroll a red carpet at the Academy Awards.

Doug Crise (CGS ’90) began his Hollywood odyssey as a film studies major at Pitt, inspired by movies like E.T., Star Wars, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, which spun entire new worlds in the dark of neighborhood theaters. Initially, he attended the Greensburg campus, not far from his family’s home in rural Smithton. Later, he commuted to the Oakland campus, where he got hands-on filmmaking experience through the University’s partnership with Pittsburgh Filmmakers. As a student, he produced several short films.

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