It’s common knowledge on campus that the undergraduate film major is nearly impossible to get into at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
Category Archives: Film & TV
UCLA alumna follows comedic talent to niche on ‘Saturday Night Live’
Nasim Pedrad recalled pumping gas in a “Dora the Explorer” outfit after a stint working a children’s birthday party as one of her first jobs out of college.
Q&A with Rhona Berens
When it comes to having a job that fulfills one’s dreams and interests, UCLA alumna and life coach Rhona Berens is one of the fortunate few who are able to wake up each day and love the career they have.
As NBC ‘Tonight Show’ ditches Conan O’Brien for Jay Leno, all is not lost for beloved Coco
Have the comedy gods been crying this week, shedding El Niño tears for the departure of Conan O’Brien from “The Tonight Show”? Or have they, as Quentin Tarantino suggested on Tuesday night, been “dancing an Irish jig”?
Film society to take moviegoers back into the past
During this winter quarter, UCLA students can take European and American film history courses to bone up on influential films, directors, film movements and filmmaking techniques.
Sundance Film Festival to screen UCLA-affiliated films
For 10 days every January, a small skiing town in the Rockies opens itself up to thousands of film-loving pilgrims seeking new and compelling movies. The ski slopes step out of the limelight as the town transforms itself into one of the largest cinema meccas of North America.
Q&A with Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer
Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer are L.A.-based comedians who form two-thirds of MTV’s “Human Giant,” a sketch comedy show which also stars Aziz Ansari from NBC’s “Parks and Recreation.”