A title like "Douchebag" wasn't one that some of the film's editors were thrilled about initially, but according to Marius Markevicius, the film's producer and a 2002 alumnus of the School of Theater, Film and Television, there was just no other way to describe one of the film's main characters. "One of the brothers is just this incredible jerk," said Markevicius. Read more...

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Ben York Jones, left, and Andrew Dickler, right, star in “Douchebag” a new film produced by 2002 UCLA Theater, Film and Television school graduate Marius Markevicius, which opens at the Nuart Theater on Friday, Oct. 8. The film was shot on a micro-budget.

PRODIGY PUBLIC RELATIONS

UCLA alumna to trailer park trash "“ actress and former Bruin, Christine Lakin, takes it all on in her new role as Kiki Hamilton in the movie "Screwball: The Ted Whitfield Story." Read more...

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UCLA alumna Christine Lakin as Kiki Hamilton in her upcoming film “Screwball: The Ted Whitfield Story,” a sports “mockumentary” about a Wiffle ball team.

CAMELOT FILMS

When a film made for around $50,000 about a male-prostitute-turned-political-radical earned almost $20 million dollars and became required viewing for the Black Panthers, Hollywood noticed. Read more...

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A still from “Cooley High,” a 1975 film that will be included in the UCLA Film and Television Archive series “Paint it Black: Revisiting Blaxploitation and African American Cinema of the 1970s.” The series begins tonight with a screening of “Super Fly.”

UCLA FILM AND TELEVISION ARCHIVE

September apparently brings 113-degree temperatures this year, but also the usual bounty of new TV shows. Read more...

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FOX

Within the world of cinema, only movies with the biggest names, biggest budgets and biggest studios behind them seem to be shown by our local theaters. Films coming from independent, foreign or experimental directors with just as much to offer oftentimes find no venue to share their artistic value. This is where second-year cinema and media studies graduate student Phil Coldiron comes in. Read more...

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Phil Coldiron, a second-year cinema and media studies graduate student, is the new director of Melnitz Movies, a series that screens films twice a week in the James Bridges Theater. He plans to combine popular films with more obscure choices.