Category Archives: Film & TV

Somewhere in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York is a big white farmhouse surrounded by fields and patches of green grass.

Two years ago, when graduate film student Vanessa Yee began brainstorming ideas for her thesis film, her mother was diagnosed with pancreatitis. Afterward, Yee didn’t tell her friends or classmates.

When fourth-year nursing student Marie De Austria moved to Anaheim at the age of 13, it was a challenge for her to figure out what it means to be a Filipino American. She said people teased her about her broken English and her accent.

Successful films require more than just the talent of their creators; they require an audience, and since Melody Storm’s days as a student of public relations, she has tried bringing audiences and filmmakers together.

After graduating from UCLA’s Theater, Film and Television program in 2008, alumna Beth Behrs spent years working and auditioning for film and TV before landing her breakout role as Caroline Channing in the freshman CBS sitcom “2 Broke Girls.” Daily Bruin reporter Arit John talked to Behrs about the show, her time at UCLA and actually being a broke girl.

Daily Bruin: What was your time like at UCLA?

Aged by time, lonesomeness and a lifestyle limited by the bottom of a whiskey bottle, James Blackthorn sits on his horse comfortably, in a way that only a hardened bandit could manage.

From a slight cough to a tummy cramp, any sort of minor pain or ailment in the movie world always seems to have a fatalistic twist.