Author Archives: Devon Dickau

Though blockbuster explosions and hot young bodies may draw the crowds to the theaters this summer, a different kind of action has recently taken over the silver screen: social action. As socially and politically relevant films increasingly continue to enter the mainstream, UCLA students are walking out of theaters with activism on their minds and […]

By the age of seven, Jennifer Middleton already had an agent. But with appearances on the television shows “Full House” and “NYPD Blue,” commercials for Mattel and Subway and dozens of stage plays under her belt before she entered high school, she decided to take a break from an early career in acting to pursue […]

When Amy Adrion decided to apply to film school, she gave it one shot. “I only applied to UCLA,” she said. “I didn’t apply anywhere else.” But it wasn’t the Hollywood lifestyle and L.A. skyline that first beckoned the New Jersey native to make the trip to Southern California. “I have always kind of been […]

From the triumph of love in the Antarctic to the tragic fall of Enron, documentary films have lately proved they can be just as dramatic and successful as Hollywood fare. “It is just the most amazing time right now for documentary film,” said Joan Churchill, who recently became the first pure documentary cinematographer inducted into […]

When Edward Monaghan was 11 years old, he wanted what most adolescent boys want more than anything: to kick some serious butt. “I began (martial arts) when I was a little guy,” said the UCLA theater professor of “Directing for Film & TV: Combat for Camera,” a new course open to all students. “I wanted […]

It is not every day that empty pizza boxes, a half-eaten chocolate cake and an Oscar statuette rest on the same table, much less the same classroom. But that was the scene before Professor Cathy Schulman’s Wednesday-night class last week, when graduate students, faculty and staff of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television […]