Sports broadcaster and television host Angela Sun has traveled to Midway Atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to see the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in person. Read more...
Photo: Sports broadcaster and television host Angela Sun’s documentary, “Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” will be the first film shown in the second annual “Green Screens Film Festival.” (Courtesy of Angela Sun)
Undergraduate student government officers added a post-film discussion to their Tuesday screening of “American Sniper” after dozens of students plastered its Facebook event page with concerns that the film promotes Islamophobia and glorifies war. Read more...
Photo: On the undergraduate government’s Campus Events Commission’s Facebook event page for Tuesday’s film screening of “American Sniper,” students protested the free showing of the controversial, Oscar-nominated film. In response, CEC added a discussion after the screening. (Warner Bros.)
As a screenwriter and producer, Allison Gryphon’s first instinct after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011 was to watch a movie that would provide an accessible account of the disease. Read more...
Photo: Screenwriter and producer Allison Gryphon will be on campus Saturday, screening her directorial debut, “What the F@#- is Cancer and Why Does Everybody Have It?” The documentary aims to inspire conversation among viewers. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)
“Child 44” is a melting pot of a film in which director Daniel Espinosa throws a dollop of murder mystery, a soupçon of spy thriller, a pinch of political drama and to top it off, a generous dose of gut-wrenching action. Read more...
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Disneynature’s eighth theatrical release, “Monkey Kingdom,” opens with a breathtaking view of a fog enveloping the jungles of South Asia at sunrise. Directed and produced by Mark Linfield and Alastair Fothergill, the movie premieres this spring and will join the ranks of Disney’s amusing and illuminative films about nature. Read more...
Photo: Disneynature’s eighth theatrical release, “Monkey Kingdom,” will have its opening week April 17-23, where the money from ticket revenue will be used for making donations to Conservation International. (Disneynature)
On Tuesday, dedicated fans waited for hours outside the Regency Bruin Theatre, fat raindrops pelting their heads, with hopes of seeing the season five premiere of HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” The Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Campus Events Commission hosted the screening of the popular show, a television adaptation of George R. Read more...
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On a 37-hour bus ride from New York to New Orleans, Garrett Bradley held interviews with fellow passengers around her age. The conversations she had during that drive eventually culminated in her first feature film, “Below Dreams.” The UCLA alumna said she began these interviews on the Greyhound buses while on a break from school, and that at the time, she didn’t know what she was going to do with the material she acquired or that she would eventually transcribe the recordings and turn them into a film script. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumna Garrett Bradley used interviews she had with passengers on Greyhound buses as the material for her film “Below Dreams.” The film will be screened in select L.A. theaters from Friday to Wednesday. (Courtesy of Milena Pastreich)
