Saturday, April 4

Video Production Crew draws fresh talent with training focus

To make it big in the multibillion-dollar film industry, sometimes it’s best to start small. UCLA’s Video Production Crew is a student-led organization that produces short films. Read more...

Photo: From left: First-year psychobiology student Elaine Lin, first-year undeclared student Alexander DeKoning and fourth-year linguistics student Julio Vega work on a shoot for UCLA’s Video Production Crew. Their project for winter quarter will be the group’s first thriller, filmed at Lucia’s Cafe in Westwood. In the film, a man brings a suitcase into a diner and tells a waitress there is a bomb inside.






Film’s premise makes up for predictability

Mixing the artful complexities of “Traffic,” the occasional wit of “Ocean’s Eleven,” and the medically thrilling tones of “Contagion,” “Side Effects” seems like an appropriate send-off of specialty techniques and styles for director Steven Soderbergh before going on his publicized, indefinite hiatus. Read more...


UCLA alumna Lena Khan fundraises for ‘The Tiger Hunter’

All the actors and crew were ready to shoot, but there was a problem: The cameraman was a no-show. Unable to track him down and assuming a catastrophic disaster had occurred, Lena Khan laughed it off with her cinematographer and instead managed to shoot her music video in half the time allotted. Read more...

Photo: Alumna Lena Khan (right) is currently fundraising for her film “The Tiger Hunter,” which follows a Muslim Indian immigrant dealing with culture shock after moving to Chicago in the 1970s.



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