Saturday, July 25

Film festival showcases productions and scripts of graduate students hoping to get signed by industry

Vanessa Knutsen, a graduate film student, recently traveled overseas to Israel, where she single-handedly put together a film crew and filmed a 15-minute short film titled "The Promised Land." Read more...

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Directing and production graduate student Richard Parkin’s film, “Contra el Mar,” will be featured in the Directors Spotlight at this year’s UCLA Festival of New Creative Work, which begins Friday. The film follows a deep-sea clam diver in Mexico who must decide between a job that could kill him and a job that could get him arrested.


Screen meets stage in The Coppola One Act Marathon

Cynthia Mersten was in hysterics. The second-year theater student threw props all over the floor, screaming and pounding the ground as Bill Barker, a graduate film student, watched in horror, unable to stop her. Read more...

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Graduate film student Bill Barker and second-year theater student Cynthia Mersten rehearse for “Kathleen Turner’s Ear.”



Dancing to the Venice beat at the drum circle

From the cardigan-clad woman ceremoniously dancing around the citation ticket she set on fire to the man in the tiki mask playing the bongos, it seemed that the wild spirit of the Venice Beach Drum Circle remains unbroken despite the prevalence of security. Read more...

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Participants sing and dance with the Venice Beach Drum Circle on Sunday. The event attracts music lovers of all ages and backgrounds.

courtesy of ALEXANDER GALLAGHERSOLTES




Sound Bite: My Morning Jacket

My Morning Jacket is not an easy band to listen to. There's so much going on in the music, it's hard for listeners to settle back and get comfortable. Read more...

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(Credit: Ato Records)