Inspiration comes in strange forms, and the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards chose to validate an array of idiosyncratic ideas, from inept frontier doctors to spider private investigators. Read more...
Photo: The Samuel Goldwyn Screenwriting Awards celebrates young stage, film and television writers with cash awards. This year, first place and third place were awarded to UCLA students.
Hunched over her keyboard, Eleanor Infante contemplates the daunting task that sits on the computer screen in front her. With hours and hours of footage to go through, she knows the task will be a challenge, but awaits the feeling of satisfaction that washes over her after every film project she concludes. Read more...
Photo: Eleanor Infante is a UCLA Theater, Film and Television alumna that has been a part of every aspect of film editing.
With play adaptations, it’s often difficult to pinpoint the transitional liberties taken by the film’s screenwriter. In regard to either his own scripted dialogue or character placements, there serves a question as to what may have been taken directly from the staged version, transported effortlessly onto film. Read more...
UCLA alumna L.A. Ross entered James Franco’s film class with plans to produce a short film. Little did she know that a clip of her film would be screened at “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on Oct. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumna L.A. Ross’ short film, “Miss Famous,” a clip of which appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” was produced in a class taught by James Franco.
As Halloween comes to a close, the holidays finally turn their head, ready to embrace children with the joy of the season – at least, children who aren’t taken to see “Free Birds,” the animated debut feature by Reel FX, hoping to stuff some Thanksgiving into the hectic end-of-the-year movie schedule. Read more...
The poster for “Ender’s Game,” hoping to symbolize a science fiction story as representative of 1980s young adult interest in adventure and violence just as “The Hunger Games” is today, states in dramatically large design, “This Is Not a Game.” Not since “Pacific Rim” has a movie advertised such an amusingly ridiculous tagline. Read more...
To the surprise of many, Matthew McConaughey may turn out to be one of the better actors of his generation. He’s always had the charisma, but sometime in the last few years, some gear shifted in him – that charisma is now being used in much more multifaceted ways, and the effect is something like a revelation. Read more...
