Since 1919
Funny faces and a 7-year-old were enough to inspire Justin Perkinson. Playing with his younger cousin while visiting family on the East Coast led to his short film “Spider Fang!”
Perkinson’s film is one of three master of fine arts students whose short films, which initially began as class projects, will be featured in the Newport Beach Film Festival this week.
Emile Ayoub and his friends discovered “The Room” last year, when another friend showed clips from what she described as a movie that is so bad it’s funny.
Screenwriter Jim Herzfeld is best known for the box office smash hits “Meet the Parents” and “Meet the Fockers,” which in total grossed close to a billion dollars at the box office.
“The dream of the ’90s is alive in Portland,” sings comedian Fred Armisen in the opening song to the Independent Film Channel’s television series “Portlandia.”
It’s amusing to think that if smartphones had existed in the 1950s, people probably would have used them to watch “I Love Lucy.”
He was behind the camera when Jason Biggs got it on with an apple dessert in the 1999 hit “American Pie.” He made sure Chris Rock was properly lit for his resurrection in the 2001 comedy “Down To Earth.” And this spring quarter, cinematographer Richard Crudo will pass on his know-how and tricks of the trade to UCLA students as the 2011 Kodak Cinematographer in Residence.
A man made of Legos is fishing. The filmmaker takes a picture. He changes the Lego man’s position just slightly.
