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UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Wed Jul 1, 2009 -- Backed by a memorably suggestive ad campiagn, the pilot episode of the new HBO comedy "Hung," directed by executive producer Alexander Payne MFA '90, was an immediate hit for the cable channel, quoth "Daily Variety:"HBO has reason to be pleased with the premiere of "Hung" (1.4/4...
Sandra
Sandra
Congratulations on your new HBO comedy "Hung"!!
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Today, Jul 1, 2009 -- The annual Festival of New Creative Work is a nine-day celebration of the newest work coming out of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Today, Jul 1, 2009 -- Screenwriting alumnus Matthew J. Reichl MFA '00 passed away on May 3, 2009 in Philadelphia, a result of multiple surgeries for a brain tumor. He was 44. Reichl graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with bachelors degrees in both psychology and film...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Tue Jun 30, 2009 -- Mandeville Films' David Hoberman ("The Proposal"), a Visiting Assistant Professor in the UCLA Producers Program, is supervising the production of David O. Russell's bio-pic about Irish boxer Mickey Ward (Mark Wahlberg)...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Tue Jun 23, 2009 -- Debuting This MonthTheaterThru-August 2: "Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara," Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at the Geffen PlayhouseThru-July 26: "Farragut North," West Coast Premiere starring Chris Noth, Chris Pine and, Olivia Thirlby. At the Geffen PlayhouseThru Sept...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Sat Jun 20, 2009 -- "For me personally, (Bob will) always be my most significant teacher, my mentor and a man who literally taught me how to think."--Geoffrey Gilmore View a slideshow of photographs by Juan Tallo from the May 29 tribute to Robert Rosen at the Bridges Theater A capacity crowd of...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Today, Jun 24, 2009 -- All of the defining events of the School's annual Festival of New Creative Work, from the Animation Prom to the Screenwriters Showcase, include a salute to an honored guest...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Mon Jun 22, 2009 -- Screenwriting alumna Laeta Kalogridis MFA '94 sold her first script, "an epic about Joan of Arc," while still a student at UCLA, reports the "Los Angeles Times." The paper named her one of ten talents to watch in the movie business in a recent Sunday survey article.When the...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Today, Jun 24, 2009 -- The University of California Board of Regents has approved the appointment of Teri Schwartz as dean of the renowned UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, effective July 1...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Fri Jun 19, 2009 -- "Screen Daily" is reporting that alumnus Alexander Payne MFA '90 will serve as a guest director at the 36th Telluride Film Festival.Festival co-directors Tom Luddy, Julie Huntsinger and Gary Meyer have invited Payne to select a series of films to show at the prestigious...
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Fri Jun 19, 2009 -- Filmmaker Anna Chi may well be the only student to come to the UCLA Producers Program from mainland China and a stint in the infamous Red Guards. During the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, Chi served as an enthusiatic traveling propagandist...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Mon Jun 15, 2009 -- Watch our video interview with Laura Gabbert at Sundance 2009 "Daily Variety" reports the sale of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival hit "No Impact Man" to Oscilloscope Laboratories, which will release the film theatrically on September 4...
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Sandra
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UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Today, Jun 15, 2009 -- The animated drama "Alice's Attic," by Robyn Yannoukos, was awarded a Gold Medal in its category, Alternative, at the Student Academy Awards ceremony on Saturday, June 13, in Los Angeles...
Delphine
Delphine
Bravo! TFT students rock!
Elle
Elle
Yay!
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Today, Jun 12, 2009 -- Two films that were Director's Spotlight winners in 2008 at the Festival of New Creative Work, Bradford Schmidt's "Welgunzer" and Julie Sagalowsky's "Lucy: A Period Piece," have been named finalists in the 2009 BAFTA/LA Student Film Awards competition...
Sandra
Sandra
Congratulations! You have always had the best instructors out of the TV industry to teach you film production at UCLA. I used to love acting in the UCLA films, and learning the techniques of film production.
May you go far in the film industry.
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Thu Jun 11, 2009 -- "Your only job is to get invited back. Don't try to win an Oscar; don't try to win an Emmy; just get invited back...
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UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Haskell Wexler, Ellen Geer honored and Oliver Stone delivers commencement address Friday, June 12 on campus. Congratulations to all the graduates! Best of luck and don't forget to keep us posted of all your succes.

Source: www.tft.ucla.edu
At UCLA the study of theater, film, television and digital media is integrated within a single professional school.
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Today, Jun 10, 2009 -- After taking the stage to accept the MTV Movie "Best Film" trophy for "Twilight," the vampire romance that was one of the biggest theatrical and DVD hits of the past year, alumna Catherine Hardwicke is going from strength to strength...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Today, Jun 5, 2009 -- Debuting This MonthFilm June 5: "Land of the Lost," directed by Brad Silberling MFA '87, co-starring Jorma Taccone '00June 5: "My Life in Ruins," co-executive producers Dean's Advisory Board Member Tom Hanks and Executive Board Member Rita WilsonJune 12: "Imagine That,"...
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Today, Jun 4, 2009 -- A screening of the 1986 thriller "Hunter's Blood" at LA's adventurous New Beverly Cinema, as part of a triple feature of genre films with a solid fan base, has turned into an impromptu reunion event for crew members -- whose ranks include two TFT faculty members...
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Thu May 21, 2009 -- UCLA alumnus David Silverman '79, MFA '83, director of numerous episodes of the hit show "The Simpsons," as well as the 2007 feature film based on the FOX series, will be honored as the first recipient of UCLA's Outstanding Contribution to Animation award on Saturday, June 6, at...
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Mon May 11, 2009 -- As part of an innovative release arrangement, Canadian metal stalwarts Anvil will perform live on May 13 at the Nuart Theater in Los Angeles, as part of a national comeback tour promoting the film...
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Thu May 7, 2009 -- Animator Joaquin Baldwin is a finalist at the Festival De Cannes, featured in the "Short Film Corner" online competition...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Today, May 6, 2009 -- Films by three current TFT students have been selected as finalists in the 36th Student Academy Awards, a nationwide competition organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Thu Apr 30, 2009 -- Debuting This MonthTheaterThru May 10: "The Caterer," written and directed by Brian Alan Lane '73, M.F.A...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Fri Apr 24, 2009 -- A well-reviewed film about racial profiling and injustice in a small town in Texas, which began a limited theatrical release on April 17, is the latest film edited by TFT alumna and faculty member Nancy Richardson MFA '96...
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Tue Apr 28, 2009 -- "The Daily Bruin" recently celebrated the accomplishments of MFA filmmaker Alex Jablonsky, whose film "Blue Boy" will screen at New York's Tribeca Film Festival two months before it is offered up as a contender in this year's Festival of New Creative Work...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Today, Apr 28, 2009 -- According to "The Hollywood Reporter," the Cartoon Network will continue its move into live-action feature production with "Reborn," a contemporary retelling of the legend of King Arthur written by Travis Wright MFA '01 ("Eagle Eye"):"[Project] is inspired by the legend of...
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Fri Apr 24, 2009 -- With a speaker event and discussion on April 22, and an ongoing series of video-game related films, the TFT student group LUDUS seeks to explore video gaming as an explosively evolving digital media art form for the 21st century...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Fri Apr 24, 2009 -- "You Again," a script co-written by Dave Johnson MFA '03 and Moe Jelline will be the next project directed by Andy Fickman, as a follow-up to his surprise hit "Race to Witch Mountain." "Daily Variety" reports that actress Kristen Bell will star, as "a girl who's horrified to...
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Today, Apr 27, 2009 -- Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC has been named Kodak Cinematographer in Residence for the Spring quarter at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Theater, Film and Television...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Thu Apr 9, 2009 -- Throughout the month of May the Turner Classic Movies film series "Race and Hollywood: Latino Images in Film" will be co-hosted by Robert Osborne and Cinema and Media Studies Professor Chon Noriega, director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Today, Apr 9, 2009 -- Christopher Gorham '96 stars as a groom-to-be, whose impending nuptials attract a diverse group of friends and relatives to a remote location on the mystery mini-series "Harper's Island," which debuts April 9 on CBS...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Wed Apr 8, 2009 -- "Daily Variety" reports thatAfter spending the better part of the last six years directing the "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy, which grossed $2.6 billion worldwide, Verbinski has informed Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer that he will not helm a fourth installment that's...
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Thu Apr 2, 2009 -- Following their very successful 2008 production of Lawrence Fishburn's Riff Raff, alumni Hezekiah Lewis(Director) and Theodore Perkins (Producer), have teamed up again for the West Coast premiere of writer/performer George Peters II's acclaimed one-man show "Any1Man." Peters...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Today, Apr 7, 2009 -- Debuting This MonthTheaterApril 9 - April 19: "Any1Man," produced by Theodore Perkins MFA '07 and directed by Hezekiah L. Lewis, III MFA '08, Alexia Robinson Studio, Los AngelesApril 10-May 10: "The Caterer," Written and directed by Brian Alan Lane '73, M.F.A...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Wed Mar 25, 2009 -- Current students and recent graduates picked up three prizes at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation's 30th College Television Awards. Awards were presented on Saturday, March 21, in Los Angeles, at a ceremony hosted by Tom Bergeron...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Tue Mar 31, 2009 -- Professor Emeritus Jorge Prelorán '61, an alumnus and lomng-time faculty member of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, died in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 28, after a ten year battle with prostate cancer...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Wed Mar 25, 2009 -- The writer-producer of "Sex and the City," one of the series that put HBO on the map as a hotbed of original series programming, has signed a new deal with the cable channel...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Wed Mar 25, 2009 -- Screenwriting alumnus Brian Alan Lane '73, a Hollywood veteran with multiple credits on hit TV shows such as "Remington Steele" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation," has now accomplished the almost unheard of...
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Wed Mar 25, 2009 -- The most professional, intensive and creative summer workshops for young people available anywhere are those offered each summer by the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Wed Mar 25, 2009 -- Alumna Catherine Hardwicke is likely to follow her mega-successful theatrical and DVD release Twilight with an adaptation of another popular Young Adult fantasy series, James Paterson's "Maximum Ride." Fellow TFT alumnus Don Payne '87 will be writing the screenplay...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Tue Mar 24, 2009 -- Miles and Jack will soon be adding a fluent command of Japanese to their celebrated literary, thespian and oenephlic accomplishments...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Wed Mar 11, 2009 -- Join writer, director and ex-Anvil roadie Sacha Gervasi at a special UCLA screening of "Anvil: The Story of Anvil" Watch our video interview with Gervasi Read our web coverage of "Anvil's" triumph at the Los Angeles Film Festival...
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Today, Mar 3, 2009 -- Alumnus Alexander Payne MFA '90 will co-write and direct, for Fox Searchlight, a sci-fi social satire called "Downsizing," about a world in which full-sized adults can pay to undergo minaturization...
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Wed Feb 25, 2009 -- Theater alum Hollace Star '96, MFA '99 will direct a revival production of Bill Barker's family ensemble comedy "Best Wishes," which ran for nine straight months when ir debuted in Los Angeles in 1986...
Rebecca
Rebecca
Plus another TFT Alum, Rebecca Davis MFA '03, is performing in the show.
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Today, Feb 26, 2009 -- Universal has announced that Gore Verbinski '87 ("The Ring") will produce and direct a new adaptation of the popular Parker Brothers board game "Clue," in which players turn detective and attempt to work out who killed Colonel Mustard in the library with a ball-peen hammer...
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Wed Feb 25, 2009 -- Novelist, screenwriter and television creator Dan Gordon '69 will pass another career milestone this year when he makes his debut as a Broadway playwright with "Irena's Vow." Gordon's screenplay credits include "Passenger 57" (1992), "Wyatt Earp" (1994) and "The Hurricane"...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Today, Feb 24, 2009 -- Read Professor María Elena de las Carreras' first-person reports from Berlinale 2009 The Berlin International Film Festival is one of the world's largest cinematic celebrations: 400 films, 20,000 accredited guests, 270,000 individual admissions...
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Today, Feb 24, 2009 -- Jim Morrison '65 and Ray Manzarek were studying film in 1965, in what was then called the Theater Arts Department at UCLA, when they brainstormed the radical concept for a "psychedelic" rock band that became The Doors...