“Two years ago, the Rev. Robert B. Lawton, the new Jesuit president of Loyola Marymount University, began an ambitious, and costly, effort to turn the small Roman Catholic school, located in a staid, middle-class neighborhood northwest of Los Angeles International Airport, into a haven for aspiring filmmakers. ‘I looked at the landscape, and I thought there should be one values-based institution in the world that’s strong in teaching how to make images that shape and reflect us’.”