Leaving El Paso, Texas, five years ago, Iliana Sosa knew she would one day return to her hometown. But what she did not know was she would return to produce an award-winning thesis film. Read more...
Photo: “Child of the Desert” follows a mother traveling to the final resting site of her military son, befriending a Spanish-speaking immigrant along the way.
The first time Dehanza Rogers saw her film in a theater she began to cry. Rogers, a UCLA master of fine arts candidate in directing and cinematography, said she was emotional because, after several months of strenuous work to create her short film, “Sweet, Sweet Country,” she could finally see her hard work in front of her. Read more...
Photo: “Sweet, Sweet Country” follows Ndizeye, a young girl who must support both herself and the family she left behind at a Kenyan refugee camp.
A teenage girl, a mentally disabled boy and a lost horse. Nicole Gordon, master of fine arts candidate in film production and directing at UCLA, wanted to save these characters for her final thesis, but she knew she could no longer wait to see them on screen. Read more...
Photo: “The Last Wild” is the story of a troubled teenage girl who searches for her lost horse with the help of a young boy.
The second and final day of this year’s FYF Fest had all the makings of the quintessential Los Angeles summer experience: hot summer sun, a slight breeze from the western beaches, food trucks galore and immense amounts of musical talent. Read more...
Photo: With the second day of FYF Fest complete, Los Angeles crowds were served energetic sets by artists, including !!! (vocalized “Chk Chk Chk”), across four stages.
Sunday, August 18th marked the Inaugural Geekie Awards at the Avalon in Hollywood, a new awards show organized in order to celebrate the geek genre and its most talented independent creators, artists and filmmakers. Read more...
In the last five years or so, the media has become fascinated with geeks. From CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory” to superhero-movie domination of the box office, Hollywood has decided that geek-oriented products are marketable and worth developing. Read more...
“The World’s End” has the most fitting movie title of the summer. After an apocalyptic “World War Z,” abysmal adventure flick “After Earth” and so many more of the same fictionally destructive caliber, a blatantly world-ending comedy seems like the kind of film to place squarely at the butt of it all. Read more...
