The UCLA Film & Television Archive is resurrecting the stories of incarcerated women. On Saturday, the Archive will screen a digitally restored version of “We’re Alive,” a 1974 documentary detailing the experiences of women at the California Institution for Women, a state prison for female inmates in Chino, California. Read more...

Photo: A group of women stand holding a variety of signs. “We’re Alive” was produced by three alumni. (Courtesy of “We’re Alive”)

Horror dives headfirst into the deep end in “Infinity Pool.” Screened in the Midnight category of the Sundance Film Festival, writer-director Brandon Cronenberg’s feature film chronicles the ill-fated beach vacation of James Foster (Alexander Skarsgård), who is introduced to a dangerous, opulent underworld of sex and violence by Gabi (Mia Goth). Read more...

Photo: Mia Goth speaks during an interview at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. The actor stars as Gabi in “Infinity Pool.” (Joseph Jimenez/Assistant Photo editor)

Just like their campers, the writers and directors of “Theater Camp” are a tight-knit unit. For their feature directorial debut, Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman collaborated with friends and writers Ben Platt and Noah Galvin on “Theater Camp.” Premiered in the U.S. Read more...

Photo: Noah Galvin (left) and Ben Platt (right) pose at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. The pair served as co-writers on “Theater Camp.” (Joseph Jimenez/Assistant Photo editor)

This post was updated Jan. 29 at 8:38 p.m. “The Starling Girl” hits close to home for writer-director Laurel Parmet. In her first feature film as a Sundance Institute Feature Film Program fellow, Parmet said she drew inspiration from her own experience dating an older man. Read more...

Photo: Laurel Parmet smiles off to the side. Her film “The Starling Girl” premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. (Joseph Jimenez/Assistant Photo editor)