Wednesday, January 14

Film students explore benefits of interschool collaborations

Los Angeles is a goldmine of prestigious film schools. Colleges located in the homeland of cinematic showbiz have distinct teaching styles. However, some students choose to collaborate with those from other schools to make movies that combine the differing educational foundations of UCLA, USC and Chapman University. Read more...

Photo: Graduate student Nick Adams wrote the original screenplay “A Billion Dollars,” which he worked on with Chapman University producing student Xia Huang. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin staff)



Short film ‘The Spaceman’ brings UCLA creators to Cannes Film Festival

A cinematographer discreetly started filming as a child actor fiddled with a solar system mobile on the set of “The Spaceman.” The short film that carried second-year undeclared student Aman Adlakha, fourth-year English student Harit Muttreja and second-year communication studies student Will Greenberg to the 2017 Cannes Film Festival in May contains no dialogue. Read more...

Photo: Second-year undeclared student Aman Adlakha, fourth-year English student Harit Muttreja and second-year communication studies student Will Greenberg went to the 2017 Cannes Film Festival with their film “The Spaceman.”



‘The Good, the Plaid, and the Ugly’ showcases student-written plays

Three one-act plays will feature a support group for mystical creatures, a school for troubled girls and a dubious alien abduction. “The Good, the Plaid, and the Ugly,” premiering Friday, is the latest show produced by Lapu, the Coyote that Cares Theatre Company. Read more...

Photo: “Rialto, CA. 1993” is one of three one-act plays student members of Lapu, the Coyote that Cares Theatre Company will perform as part of “The Good, the Plaid, and the Ugly.” “Rialto, CA. 1993” is an original play written by third-year global studies student Cameron Coulter. (Courtesy of Simon Joo)


Five productions take home awards at 2017 Shorttakes film festival

The audience was suspended in stunned silence moments before bursting into applause at the culmination of the 23rd Annual Shorttakes Student Film Festival’s last film. The Audience Choice Award-winning film, “Ruby Locus,” directed by fourth-year political science student Alvaro Wong, tells the narrative of a young girl kidnapped while on a date with a man she met online who later takes part in sexually assaulting and murdering her. Read more...

Photo: (Habeba Mostafa/Daily Bruin)


Students bring friendship, campus life at UCLA to new web series

Four UCLA students filmed the first episode for their web series at Powell Library on Sunday afternoon. It took Armando Berumen at least five tries to catch a crumpled piece of paper – the paper will be edited to include Berumen’s name on it for the opening credits of the series, “Predominantly White Institution.” Giggles erupted from the cast and crew amid Powell Library’s book stacks each time the first-year undeclared student missed the paper ball. Read more...

Photo: Students Feven Negussie, Armando Berumen, Giselle Horta and Andres Esparza (left to right) filmed the first episode for their web series “Predominantly White Institution” at Powell Library on Sunday. (Andrew Arifin/Daily Bruin)



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