USC and UCLA will combine forces Friday to coordinate the eighth annual Transforming Hollywood conference, held in the James Bridges Theater starting at 9 a.m. The event, which aims to educate attendees about the changing landscape of entertainment and technology, is co-directed by Denise Mann, co-head of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s […]
Category Archives: Film & TV
Professors consider effects Hollywood writers’ strike would have caused
Hollywood writers were poised to go on strike Tuesday, but they narrowly managed to make a deal just moments after their prior contract expired. The Writers Guild of America voted 96.3 percent in favor of a strike authorization April 24. The strike would have begun Tuesday, and would have been the first major WGA strike […]
Movie review: ‘The Circle’
“The Circle” imagines a world in which internet stardom is just a daily vlog away, and giant tech companies battle governments over privacy issues. Sound familiar? The latest offering from up-and-coming indie director James Ponsoldt, aims to be both a reflection on documenting one’s life online in the modern world of surveillance, as well as […]
Collecting Creatives: Film student Daniel Apodaca finds collaboration key to visual storytelling
Daniel Apodaca’s first brush with filmmaking involved filming his friends jumping over tennis nets and gliding down handrails on their skateboards. Growing up as a teenager in East Los Angeles, the third-year film student watched online tutorials to learn how to shoot and edit his skate videos. He later worked as a cameraman and visual […]
UCLA debate coach reflects on contribution to 1989 film ‘Listen to Me’
Roy Scheider was an actor, not a debate coach. So when the actor was cast to play a debate coach in “Listen to Me,” he sought help from UCLA senior lecturer and debate team coach Thomas Miller. In order to prepare for his role in the 1989 film, Scheider attended several of Miller’s lectures. UCLA’s […]
UCLA alumna premieres film shining light on story of Franca Viola
Marta Savina was browsing through a bookstore in Florence, Italy, when she came across the story of Franca Viola. The UCLA directing alumna picked up a book about women who changed history – a subject that already interested her – and randomly opened it to the story of Viola, a Sicilian woman who was the […]
International film festival explores themes of cultural identity, individuality
An annual film festival founded by the International Student Film Association screened 19 films from 15 countries on campus Sunday. UCLA students, staff and alumni helped organize the second annual Los Angeles International Culture Film Festival, which screened 15 original submissions and four acquisitions of films first screened at other festivals. The eight-hour festival, held […]