Community Mourns Loss Of Aspiring Northridge Filmmaker

NORTHRIDGE — Friends and family are mourning the death of a 25-year-old Northridge, who died early Sunday morning when his car hit a dip in the road on and skidded out of control into a power pole.

Joshua Briggs, a 2016 CSUN graduate, died instantly at about 2 a.m. Sunday in the crash at Balboa Boulevard and Devonshire Street, the coroner's office reported Monday. Briggs had graduated with a B.A. in Cinema and Television Arts, The Sundial reported. Friend and family are planning a candlelight vigil for Briggs at 7 p.m. Friday at at 10235 Balboa Boulevard.

Briggs' fraternity brother Tyre Mills IV, told the Cal State Northridge paper he saw Briggs Sunday at birthday brunch for a friend.

“Josh was an amazing, loving, caring ambitious person; he was the funniest guy you’d ever know,” Mills told The Sundial. “He carried this comedic and positive energy with him everywhere he went. He could make anyone laugh and he would encourage you to live and enjoy life.”

Friends said Briggs was a screenplay writer with dreams of directing and starting a company to help up-and-coming writers network. His friends are seeking donations to start a scholarship fund in his honor.

“We’re getting donations for the family and will then convert the fund into a scholarship fund so we can give a scholarship out in Josh’s name,” said Brigg’s friend Bill Gluckman told The Sundial.

Before he died, Briggs had started a GoFundMe campaign to fund his vision: NuSpect Productions.

"There are big plans for NuSpect and we plan to help the masses with our talents and our stories," he wrote on his fundraising page.

In the meantime, police hope witnesses to the accident will come forward with information about what may have led to the crash. Anyone with information on the crash was urged to call the LAPD's Valley Traffic Division at (818) 644-8032.

City News Service contributed to this report. Photo courtesy of GoFundMe