Reunion 2026

Marie Cantin is an award-winning producer and educator, with experience in both independent and studio film and television development and production. Notable projects include Collateral, Save the Last Dance, Dante’s Peak, Masked and Anonymous, Big Fat Liar, A Night at the Roxbury, Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead, and Torch Song Trilogy. With Gale Anne Hurd, Marie produced The Waterdance, winner of a Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and a Film Independent Spirit Award for best first feature. She also produced The Book of Stars, which won numerous festival awards, including best feature at the Stony Brook Film Festival.

Marie served on the producing faculty and was an associate dean at the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles, where she mentored 185 award-winning M.F.A. thesis films that garnered one Oscar nomination and 17 student Academy Awards. She received a B.A. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and did graduate studies in film and television production at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America, Women in Film, and Film Independent. Marie is also a long-time member of the Directors Guild of America and is the recipient of the 2017 Frank Capra Achievement Award in honor of her career and service to the industry and the guild. Marie currently serves on the board of trustees of the Directors Guild of America-Producer Pension & Health Plans.

A native of Québec, Marie speaks French, as well as Spanish and Italian. She and her husband, Michael Miner, a screenwriter who co-wrote the original Robocop, are avid photographers who enjoy swimming and scuba diving.

Marie has served as the 1970 Class Correspondent since 2005—her class credits her with keeping them connected and close—and was a member of the Alumnae Council from 2018–2020. She was a guest speaker at Journey Day as a member of the career perspectives panel, and offered her expertise in the entertainment industry on a career panel discussion for the Los Angeles Chapter in 2014.

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Laure L. Woods ’80 is a former clinical researcher whose experience included trials for treatment of cystic fibrosis, glaucoma, HIV/AIDS, cancer, and infant nutrition. She has held clinical research positions at several San Francisco Bay Area companies, including former Matrix Pharmaceutical and Genelabs Technologies. Early in her career, Laure founded Woods Consulting Inc. to advise companies that test the safety and efficacy of medical devices, diagnostics, and treatment regimens intended for human use.

Philanthropy has always been a part of Laure’s family culture. Her mother has her own private foundation and directed Laure’s grandfather’s LK Whittier Foundation, with Laure on the board. In 1995, Laure established the LaureL Foundation in order to formalize her charitable giving, mostly in the Bay Area, in the areas of education, health, and welfare of children and animals. In 2015, she established The LaureL STEM Fund, with a focus on STEM education (emphasizing girls in STEM) and medical research.

As someone struggling with late-stage Lyme disease, Laure co-founded the Bay Area Lyme Foundation to advance research aimed at making this tick-borne disease easy to diagnose and simple to cure. She currently serves as board chair of that organization. She also co-founded the Center for Lyme Action, a 501c4 dedicated to growing federal funding for Lyme disease, and continues to be on their advisory board. She holds a B.S. in animal science from the University of California, Davis.

In 2021, Laure and her daughter, Lexi, followed their dream and created Red Arrow Ranch, a quarter horse breeding farm in Hollister, CA. They breed their own horses, along with clients’ reining cow horses.

Laure served as an envision class agent for Santa Catalina’s 50-year anniversary. She also served as an alumnae mentor from 1990-1996. Through her foundation, Laure has given generous support to the Marine Ecology Research Program, the robotics program, and the Sister Carlotta Endowment for Educational Excellence.