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Cast member Alexandra Boyd directs.

Motion Picture Exchange (Mpx) is launching worldwide sales at AFM on Alexandra Boyd’s new behind-the-scenes documentary Ship Of Dreams: Titanic Movie Diaries featuring actors from James Cameron’s global smash Titanic.

The production from New Thirty Pictures, Cf/40 Entertainment, and Great View Productions film reveals anecdotes and tales of auditions, experiences and life on set with Cameron and Titanic leads Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.

In addition to Boyd herself, who appeared in the 1997 blockbuster, the film features Titanic cast members, Amy Gaipa, Liam Tuohy, Mark Capri, Rebecca Klinger, and Linda Kerns as they...

They say those who can't do, teach, but for many acting instructors at the college level, the doing is inseparable from the teaching."I honestly couldn't do one without the other," says Northwestern University professor Cindy Gold. "I cannot image anyone teaching something that they don't in some way practice." Gold is the head of the university's acting department, and during her 15 years at the school, she and her colleagues have reshaped the program so that tenure-track faculty are required to work outside the classroom. "We try to make what artists do comparable to what scholars do," she says. "Instead of publish or perish, it's produce or perish."Linda Kerns, a voice professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, says that her university follows the same model. "They're looking for you to always be doing research, if you will, in your field," she says, adding that the administration reviews her.