To discover the next frontier in digital filmmaking, one needn’t venture far ““ just take a look at your cellular phone. While plastic dinosaurs, yodeling custard, and garage bands may not seem like standard entertainment fare, Juliette Deinum, a UCLA alumna and cofounder of the “World’s Smallest Film Festival,” expects this new medium to explode in the United States as it has already in Asia and Europe. Read more...

Boasting a history as old and illustrious as that of Hollywood, it’s a shame that Mexican cinema has been in a funk since the mid-1950s. With the exception of some noteworthy peaks in the ’70s and early ’90s, south-of-the-border cinema rode through most of the second half of last century on trite themes like cowboys, slapstick comedies and masked wrestlers. Read more...

UCLA’s Fowler Museum Director Marla Berns describes the dizzying array of candles, statues and other ritualistic items that make up a re-creation of an authentic Los Angeles botanica as “visually seductive.” “Botanica Los Angeles: Latino popular religious art in the city of angels,” was created by visiting professor and curator, Patrick Polk. Read more...

Hollywood has always been known as the home of film, with such landmarks as the Hollywood sign and the Chinese Theatre concretely in place to maintain it’s star-studded reputation. Read more...

There are many UCLA logos. And while many people do not perceive this as a problem, it is. UCLA is one institution and should therefore be represented in one way. Read more...

With a new school year comes milestones for each returning or first-time student. For seniors it marks one last year of sleeping in and partying before the “real world” of full-time jobs. Read more...

Politics and Hollywood are two things that will forever go hand in hand. Sure, they may not seem like the best of friends, but, like any relationship with a lifelong friend, sometimes you’ve been together so long that you don’t even like each other anymore. Read more...