Alumni Bulletin - Fall 2007 - (Page 27)

job offer from Price Waterhouse, but he decided he wasn’t quite ready for the corporate world. “I deferred my full-time offer at Price Waterhouse for a year, and I went to live with my sister Nicole in L.A. to feel out the ﬁlm industry and discovered that I loved it,” he says. But Hoven fulfilled his promise to Price Waterhouse and returned to New York to work for the Big Six accounting ﬁrm. He then transferred to Price Waterhouse in San Francisco and moved on to the dot-com industry to explore his interest in technology. “When the dot-com boom kind of boomed, I lost my job along with everyone else, and that’s when I went to L.A. and shot all the footage of Nicholas,” he says. Today, Hoven has cultivated the perfect marriage between his various interests. “I took my degree and have started doing accounting for the film industry,” he says. More specifically, he works for a company that provides accounting software to film and TV. “So my clients are all acThe experience has touched me in many countants and producways. For one, I got the chance to spend a ers on films—it’s still somewhat accountinglot of time with my nephew and my sister, and I focused, which makes got to see ﬁrsthand my sister’s devotion to my parents proud,” he Nicholas. says, laughing. Hoven says his Lehigh education prepared him for his work on Little Man as well. fore Nicholas was born—this is a part of life “As coproducer for Little Man, I had to take that most people don’t have to witness,” he on a lot of different duties, and I also have a says. “The experience has touched me in many little production company that does a lot of ways. For one, I got the chance to spend a lot specs and short films,” he says. “My Lehigh of time with my nephew and my sister, and I got education helped a ton because of the man- to see firsthand my sister’s devotion to agement, marketing, and other diverse Nicholas. I truly don’t think he would be here classes I took.” if it weren’t for her. Ultimately, Hoven says making Little Man “And beyond that, I learned a lot about ﬁlmgave him the opportunity to see a side of life he making and documentaries that will always be never before had a chance to see. with me. I have definitely been bitten by the LU “I didn’t even know what an NICU was be- ﬁlmmaking bug.” I truly don’t think he would be here if it weren’t for her. Nicholas shares a moment with his uncle, Brian Hoven ’96. fall 2007 27

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