AFI Fest, the longest-running international film festival in Los Angeles, has taken off at Hollywood Boulevard. From Thursday through the next week, directors from around the world, including new auteurs and renowned award-winners, will be making appearances at the TCL Chinese Theater, the Egyptian Theater and the Dolby Theatre to support their newest projects, with […]
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TFT alumna’s film seeks to shed light on child sex trafficking
Melody Miller wants to teach children about a subject matter that she can’t show them. It’s a subject that Miller said she has to hide behind imagery and vignettes – one that the children she reaches out to don’t often understand exists in their world. Miller’s subject is human trafficking, which affects more than 100,000 […]
Q&A: Alum Jesse Draper discusses TV show, ‘Women Breaking Barriers’ seminar
UCLA alumna Jesse Draper has played Barbies with Mattel CEO Robert Eckert, high-fived retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and rode Segways with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. It’s a typical year’s work for this web television talk show host. Draper began her talk show career after graduating from UCLA in 2006 with a bachelor’s […]
Up Next: ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ offers fresh look into lives of comics
The rise of original online programming has revolutionized the way we consume television. But are any of these new shows actually worth watching? Up Next highlights noteworthy original content from Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Studios and examines how the flexible online format functions within each show. All you need is a laptop and your friend’s […]
Movie Review: ‘Big Hero 6’
With each successive project, Walt Disney Animation Studios advances ahead of its cartoon-pioneering roots. Sure, Walt Disney’s legacy and imagination will never die, but a project such as “Big Hero 6” spurs ahead what the master created in his lifetime. That’s because “Big Hero 6” is a dazzling showcase of what Disney can do in […]
UCLA screenwriting student wins first prize at Samuel Goldwyn awards
The 2014 Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards were announced Monday at the UCLA Faculty Center. The awards, now in their 59th year, recognize screenplays, teleplays and stage plays and are open to submissions from all University of California students. For the sixth time in the past 15 years, all five finalists were students or alumni from […]
Movie Review: ‘Force Majeure’
There is a primal instinct that’s generally truer than the traditional fight-or-flight responses: panic. Unbridled, terrified panic. It usually manifests as screaming or, internally, a mind-numbing sense of lingering dread. That’s almost what “Force Majeure” is like – both in plot and experience. “Force Majeure” is an unconventional disaster movie, never letting its audience members […]