Expo gives amateur screenwriters a taste of the Hollywood machine

The Los Angeles Convention Center, normally populated by boats and cars, played host last weekend to aspiring screenwriters instead. The 2002 Screenwriting Expo brought together people from across the country to learn about, and then compete in, the art of screenwriting. Sponsored by Creative Screenwriting magazine, the event was the largest convention ever held for […]

Arab videos aim to incite new thought

In the short video “Upside Down,” an older woman makes makloubeh, a traditional Palestinian food dish. The last shot shows the completed product: separate and distinct layers of chicken, rice and vegetables piled on each other, but combined to form something bigger than its individual parts.  Similarly, the widely-varying world of Arab video shorts piles […]

Speak Out hopes to raise awareness with film

In an effort to promote political awareness, Speak Out, a socialist group on the UCLA campus, will sponsor a screening of the Oscar-winning documentary “The Panama Deception” tonight. Following the film, Speak Out will hold a discussion about the film, and its parallels to the United States’ potential war with Iraq. The discussion will be […]