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Alumni Spotlight: Raqi Syed '03
April xi, 2022
Raqi joins u.s.a. to talk nigh the development of her award-winning immersive experienceMINIMUM MASS and further talk over her experiences as an immersive media artist.
SCA Productions Go Green!
March 30, 2022
Sustainable filmmaking is underway at SCA and will exist required for all SCA productions beginning fall 2022.
SCA professor Ted Braun on Gustavo Dudamel documentary ¡Viva Maestro!
March xxx, 2022
The kickoff four notes. That's what Gustavo Dudamel focused on when he rehearsed Beethoven's 5th Symphony with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. That iconic ba ba ba BOMM motif also served every bit entry bespeak Viva Maestro!, Ted Braun's new documentary about Los Angeles Combo's charismatic Music and Artistic Director that opens April viii in L.A. and New York. Braun, who teaches screenwriting at Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts, says "The moving picture was initially intended to exist near the genius of Gustavo and the artistry of conducting. It'southward not merely some person with magic hands who imposes ideas upon a group of technicians in the orchestra. I wanted to capture this fluid dynamic that happens dorsum and forth between an orchestra and a conductor."
Alumni Spotlight: Mike Nicoll '12
Feb 7, 2022
Mike joins us to discuss his latest project, LYNCHPIN: Inside the Business of Basketball, and a career in sports filmmaking.
The Greenish Pic School Alliance Launches
January 19, 2022
SCA is amongst thirteen founding members of The Light-green Film School Alliance, a consortium of moving-picture show schools committed to sustainable moving-picture show production.
Defining Cinematic Enquiry
January 18, 2022
SCA's research labs are innovating creative, multidisciplinary approaches to problem-solving societal issues.
The Power of the Web Series
December three, 2021
The web series is an platonic format for storytellers interested in exploring identity and creative approaches to storytelling. While Hollywood continues to grapple with inclusion, the internet has allowed for more diverse narrative screen characters and stories equally multicultural, LGBTQIA+, indigenous, disabled, female person, and marginalized creators accept been empowered to create low-upkeep and successful web-based stories. On November 5thursday the SCA Council for Diversity and Inclusion held a discussion with creators of acclaimed web serial.
Vitória Vasconcellos Makes Mark in Horror
November 18, 2021
Vitória Vasconcellos, a recent graduate of the Bachelor of Arts in Cinema and Media Studies programme, is a prime number example of that very ethos. As an histrion-director, Vasconcellos flexes her expertise both in front of and behind the camera, capturing everything from conventional coming-of-historic period dramas to experimental horror films.
Ethan Lee
BA in Blitheness and Digital Arts '25
November 12, 2021
An interview with Animation and Digital Arts freshman Ethan Lee.
Layla Yun
Media Arts & Practise '23
November 12, 2021
An interview with Media Arts & Practise junior Layla Yun.
Ryan B Wilson
BA, IMGD '25
November 12, 2021
An interview with IMGD freshman Ryan Beltré Wilson.
Alumni Spotlight: Ken Kwapis
November 8, 2021
Ken joins usa to discuss his recent volume, But What I Really Desire To Practice is Direct,as well as the director'southward craft.
Voodoo MacBeth Makes a Splash
November iv, 2021
LEAVE YOUR EGO AT THE DOOR. That'due south the heading on the application to join USC'due south Characteristic Film Production class. Kinesthesia Counselor/Producer John Watson (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) was looking for a way to give more than of his students feature film feel and came up with the groundbreaking concept of uniting x directors for a single full length film. Similar a Tv series, where episodes are oftentimes assigned to different directors, Watson'due south directors are each assigned to a scene in the film. "We have consistent actors, a consistent DP, consistent production designers, consistent heads of departments across the lath. The element that changes is the director," says Watson.
Akkad Endowment Launched at SCA
Nov 1, 2021
Malek is the producer of the films that gave us Michael Myers, the horror genre'due south nearly enduring "boogeyman." The character has been terrifying audiences since Jamie Lee Curtis first took that fateful babysitting gig in 1978'southward Halloween. The original films were produced by Moustapha Akkad, Malek's father, who fueled his son's early dear of filmmaking by giving him odd jobs on his productions, including mopping up imitation claret on the fix of Halloween iv. Malek has produced the Halloween sequels for the last 20 years, including Halloween Kills which debuted atop the box office on October 17th.
Trojans Help Open the AMPAS Museum
September 29, 2021
Two Cinema & Media Studies graduates and ane current CAMS Ph.D student from the USC School of Cinematic Arts helped curate the new University of Movement Pictures Arts and Science Museum in Los Angeles. The contributions of Manouchka Labouba, Emily Rauber-Rodriguez and Sophia Serrano were invaluable in the groundbreaking new museum.
Freshman Brings Hong Kong Vision to Movie house & Media Studies Program
September 23, 2021
The Bachelor of Arts in Movie theater and Media Studies programme transforms students into skilled artists, media makers and leaders in their chosen fields with a unique, interdisciplinary learning experience. Throughout their studies, students are encouraged to bring their own productions to life through filming and editing, highlighting their distinct points of view and backgrounds.
Justin Accardi Foundation for the Arts Launched
September 8, 2021
Justin Accardi institute his joy in the arts. As a student in the Business of Cinematic Arts (BCA) plan, he was as much interested in what was happening on the phase or in front of the camera as what it took to make it all happen. Accardi, who died in 2019, was a talented performer himself. He sang acapella with UnderSCore and performed with sketch comedy while attending USC. He also enjoyed losing himself in a movie in any of the screening rooms at the School of Cinematic Arts.
New Podcast Explores Neuroscience and Art
FLOAT from Mary Sweeney and Jonas Kaplan Covers Narrative and Dreamscapes
September half-dozen, 2021
The USC School of Cinematic Arts and the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences share a long history of exploring consciousness and the human feel from different points of view. Commencement September 5th, the podcast FLOAT from Mary Sweeney, the Dino and Martha De Laurentiis Endowed Chair in American motion picture and Jonas Kaplan, from the Encephalon Inventiveness Institute and Co-Managing director of the Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center, will shine a light on how science and art are closer than many people would expect. The podcast is supported by a grant from the USC Provost's programme for Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Microsoft Contributes to Gerald A. Lawson Fund
August 9, 2021
Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios announced today that it will make a significant contribution to USC Games' Gerald A. Lawson Endowment Fund for Blackness and Indigenous Students, which was established in May with the goal of increasing inclusion and representation in the games and tech industries. The Fund, which is named for one of the first Black engineers in gaming, offers financial support to Black and Ethnic students pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees in USC'southward #1 ranked game design program. Students who receive support from the fund will exist known as Lawson Scholars.
Alumni Spotlight: Kaitlyn Yang '11
August 2, 2021
From founding her own visitor, Blastoff Studios, to beingness named as ane of Forbes "30 Under thirty in Hollywood & Entertainment," Kaitlyn Yang '11 has done it all at such a young historic period.
FIRST Await SPOTLIGHT: Cat Gensler
June 14, 2021
Cat Gensler, from Tustin, CA, is a 2020 Graduate in Flick and Television Production. They are the recipient of the First Look Faculty Award for Sound.
FIRST LOOK SPOTLIGHT: Claire Dundee
June 14, 2021
Claire Dundee Graduated with a BFA in Film & Television set Product in 2021. Dundee directed the film, Monsters of Mine, a pic about a lonely girl who uses loftier-tech glasses to make full her globe with imaginary monster friends, but when they break, she discovers the value of truthful human connexion.
Outset LOOK SPOTLIGHT: Connor Williams
June 14, 2021
Connor Williams Graduated with a BFA in Motion-picture show & TV Production in 2021. Williams produced the film, Monsters of Mine, a pic about a lonely daughter who uses high-tech glasses to fill up her globe with imaginary monster friends, simply when they suspension, she discovers the value of true human connection.
FIRST Await SPOTLIGHT: Liam Walsh
June 14, 2021
Liam Walsh Graduated with a BFA in Film and Goggle box Production in 2020. Walsh directed the motion-picture show, You Missed a Spot, near a mime living in a globe where everyone is a clown, and must discover his voice to salve the girl of his dreams. The film was the Start Look Industry Award Winner for Genre flick.
FIRST Expect SPOTLIGHT: Hannah Bang
June 9, 2021
Hannah Bang, from Gwangju, South korea is a 2020 graduate with and MFA in Picture show and Tv Production. They are the recipient of the First Look Kinesthesia Accolade for Screenwriting.
Alumni Spotlight: Vanessa Monterosa '14
June 1, 2021
Vanessa Monterosa 'xiv joins united states to talk about her experience working in education, her thoughts on using technology and social media to educate our youths, and her mission at Hack the Hood to support communities of color by spreading access of tech and data literacy programs to enable economic mobility.
Beginning LOOK SPOTLIGHT: Damon Laguna
May 20, 2021
Damon Laguna, from Thousand Oaks, CA is a 2020 graduate of the MFA programme in Film and Telly Production. He is the recipient of the First Look Faculty Award in Directing.
FIRST LOOK SPOTLIGHT: Queen Kim
May 20, 2021
Queen Kim (A.1000.A Kim Jonghee), from Seoul, South Korea, is a 2020 graduate of the MFA programme in Film and Television Production. He is the recipient of the First Await Kinesthesia Honor in Producing.
FIRST Wait SPOTLIGHT: Tara Jenkins
May 20, 2021
Tara Jenkins, from Phoenix, Arizona, is a 2021 graduate of the MFA program in Picture and Television Production. She is the recipient of the First Look Faculty Laurels in Cinematography.
FIRST LOOK SPOTLIGHT: Yucong Chen
May xx, 2021
Yucong Chen, from Qingdao, Red china, is a 2020 graduate of the MFA program in Film and Television Product. She is the recipient of the First Wait Faculty Award in Editing.
Joe Wallenstein Publishes Flynn and Miranda: Your Correct to Remain Silent
Director of Physical Product novelizes famous legal case and homo cost
May 10, 2021
Joe Wallenstein, the Director of Physical Production at the USC Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts, has worn too many hats to count during his career. His titles accept included, but are non limited to, screenwriter, director, producer, educator, speaker, and non-fiction writer. In March 2021, Wallenstein added "true crime author" to the list with his latest book Flynn and Miranda: Your Right to Remain Silent.
Alumni Spotlight: Clayvon Harris '93
May 3, 2021
Clayvon Harris '93 shares her journey from being a writer to substitute teacher, as well as her thoughts on the necessity of education reform not just in Philadelphia, only beyond our state.
Alumni Spotlight: Karl Baumann 'xviii
April half-dozen, 2021
Karl joins usa to talk about the ways that media tin can exist implemented to improve man lives, from urban planning to storytelling; his feel with new technologies such every bit augmented and virtual reality; and his contributions to fighting back confronting the COVID pandemic.
Gail Katz to Head the Division of Film & Tv set Production Division
Susan Arnold will presume new Vice Chair role
April 6, 2021
Gail Katz, producer and tenured professor at the Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts has agreed to atomic number 82 the Partitioning of Movie & Television Production. The partition, commonly known equally "Production" is mayhap the School's best known conclusion, considered to be amongst the world'due south best grooming plan in every aspect of the technical skills needed to make moving image media. The division is divided into the six tracks: Directing, Editing, Producing, Product Design, Cinematography and Sound.
SCA's Council for Diversity & Inclusion Keeps Pushing for Change
March 25, 2021
Last summer, a newly resurgent Blackness Lives Thing movement inspired a series of heated SCA town hall meetings. Council for Diverseness & Inclusion caput Evan Hughes recalls, "After the murders of George Floyd and Breanna Taylor, students wanted to brand certain their voices were being heard nigh the relationships they have with campus security, for example, how classes are discussing race, and how campus learning environments need to be thoughtful nigh showing images that tin can be traumatic for students. Understandably, at that place was a lot of hurt and anger from students enervating modify."
Three Scholars Champion the "Civic Imagination"
March xviii, 2021
In the summer of 2016, iii USC scholars gathered at an 18th-century castle in Austria to teach 70 higher students from around the globe how to dream about the future. The Salzburg Global Seminar likely qualifies as the most glamorous venue to host workshop leaders Henry Jenkins, Sangita Shresthova and Gabriel Peters-Lazaro, but information technology's only one of many places where the trio has championed the practice of "civic imagination" through world-building exercises. Additional to the workshops they've run over the past eight years, Jenkins, Shresthova and Peter-Lazaro have produced two recent books filled with fresh thinking most media activism.
Alumni Spotlight: Shaina Ghuraya '20
March 2, 2021
Shaina joins us to talk nigh her passion for filmmaking, her participation in the Easterseals Challenge, too as embracing the quirky.
Animator Yoo Lee Reflects on Project Involve
March ii, 2021
Belatedly-blooming animation auteur Yoo Lee MFA '22 spent 20 years in the fashion industry earlier the birth of her daughter Sky motivated a complete shift in priorities. Inspired by Coraline and The Nightmare Before Christmas, Lee started making DIY stop motion music videos to entertain her little girl. "They were fun, but I knew I needed to learn the fundamentals," Lee says. Moving from New York to Los Angeles with her kid and sound designer husband, she enrolled in 2019 at John C. Hench Segmentation of Animation + Digital Arts.
Alumni Spotlight: Leslie Lehr '82
March one, 2021
Leslie joins us to talk virtually her journey condign a writer, what writing means to her, and her thoughts on how her writing and filmmaking paths converge.
Alumni Spotlight: Carla Banks-Waddles '00
February 17, 2021
Carla shares her experience moving through the writer's room ranks, working through the pandemic, and beingness a office of an industry that brings stories to life on the television screen.
Alumni Spotlight: Robert Bahar '00
Dec 21, 2020
Emmy and Goya accolade-winner Robert Bahar '00 joins us to talk about his documentary The Silence of Others,the impact of having your work seen throughout the globe, and his advice to aspiring documentary filmmakers.
SCA Family Stories: Stu Pollard '95
The Producer of Rust Creek on his Time Inside and Outside of USC
Dec iii, 2020
Stu Pollard is a Trojan in more ways than one. The Trojan family is a alloy of students, faculty, staff, supporters, parents, and alumni who come together to brand one of the best film schools in the world (number one according to the Hollywood Reporter.) Pollard graduated with his MFA in 1995 and returned to his alma mater to teach motion-picture show product years after.
Alumni Spotlight: Patricio Ginelsa '99
November xx, 2020
Patricio tells u.s. how he arrived at his sequel project vii years in the making,Lumpia With A Vengeance, and how his customs played a huge role in bringing the movie to life. ?
Allison A. Waite wins Student Academy Award for The Dope Years
October 28, 2020
On October 21st, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held its starting time virtual award ceremony for the Student University Awards. Four Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts creators won awards. Allison A. Waite '20 took home the silverish award for the Documentary (Domestic Film Schools) category for her picture show The Dope Years (click for trailer).
Curry Sicong Tian wins Student University Accolade for Simulacra
Oct 28, 2020
On October 21st, the Academy of Motion Movie Arts and Sciences held its first virtual award ceremony for the Student Academy Awards. Four Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts creators won awards. Curry Sicong Tian '20 took dwelling house the gilt honour for the Alternative/Experimental (Domestic and International Moving picture Schools) category for Simulacra (click for more about Curry and her film).
Rommel Villa wins Student Academy Award for Sweet Potatoes
October 28, 2020
On Oct 21st, the Academy of Motion Film Arts and Sciences held its first virtual honor ceremony for the Pupil University Awards. Iv School of Cinematic Arts creators won awards. Recent graduate Rommel Villa '19 received the statuary award in the Narrative Movie (Domestic Schools) category for his film Sweetness Potatoes.
Yucong Chen wins Student Academy Honour for Unfinished Lives
Oct 28, 2020
On October 21st, the University of Motion Picture show Arts and Sciences held its outset virtual award ceremony for the Educatee Academy Awards. Four School of Cinematic Arts creators won awards. Yucong Chen '20 took home the aureate award for the Documentary (Domestic Film Schools) category for Unfinished Lives (click for trailer).
Alumni Spotlight: Hannah Blindside 'twenty and Margo Sawaya 'nineteen
October 15, 2020
Writer-directorsHannah Bang '20 andMargo Sawaya 'nineteen join u.s. to discuss their sci-fi shortRipple Effect, produced in collaboration with USC's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) during the ongoing COVID-xix crisis.
Global Exchange 2020
October 13, 2020
On September 25th, 2020, the USC Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts hosted a virtual screening of documentaries created the 2020 Global Substitution with Communication University of China in Beijing. Seven films, in full, made their debut.
LA SkinsFest
October 8, 2020
The annual festival that celebrates Native American filmmaking comes to the Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts on Oct. 12 to showcase some engaging short films
SCA Students Make Blitheness on Zoom
The Animation Division Collaborates to Brand Art on Video Meeting Platform
August 28, 2020
In the era of COVID-19, Zoom is everywhere. Zoom meetings. Zoom fatigue. Zoom classes. Now, thank you to the creativity of USC Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts students and faculty in the John C. Hench Sectionalisation of Animation + Digital Arts, Trojans can now add together Zoom Blitheness to the conversation.
ETC and Partners to Pilot Test Virtual Product Capabilities
Baronial 17, 2020
The Amusement Technology Center at USC has selected filmmakers Hannah Blindside, Margo Sawaya and Sabina Vajra?a to receive the 2020 Innovative Engineering science Honour for their virtual production-based project, "The Ripple Result." The trio developed the futuristic alive-action project with the aim of testing the limits of virtual product. "With Unreal Engine, we tin minimize on set crew and provide better controls for talent and staff," explained executive producer Erik Weaver. "We want to become people dorsum to piece of work while keeping cast and crews safe."
Alumni Spotlight: Caroline Friend 'sixteen
July 9, 2020
Caroline joins us to talk about double-majoring in Product at SCA and History at Dornsife, how she blends the two in her work, and the life irresolute journeying that began with a blackness and white photo she saw at Leavey Library.
#ShutDownAcademia
June ten, 2020
The USC Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts (SCA) supports #ShutDownAcademia, a grassroots movement that designates June 10, 2020, as the beginning of a "transition to a lifelong commitment of actions to eradicate anti-Black racism in Academia and STEM." The movement asks institutions within academia to utilise the day to focus on how Black academics and Black STEM professionals tin be better supported within our institutions.
Danny Bilson Discusses Spike Lee Joint Da v Bloods Which He Co-Wrote with the Tardily Paul DeMeo
June 7, 2020
USC Games director Danny Bilson says he'll be proud to see his writing credit appear on Da 5 Bloods when Fasten Lee's new Netflix flick starts streaming June 12. After all, he and longtime collaborator, the belatedly Paul DeMeo, came up with the film'southward premise: Vietnam vets reunite in present-day Ho Chi Minh City intent on retrieving gilt they'd left backside in the jungle decades earlier during the estrus of boxing.
Project Blindfold
June 5, 2020
Justine Sophia created and produced the music video Projection Blindfold, bringing awareness to the epidemic of homeless youth on Skid Row.
Alumni Spotlight: Adam Habib '09
May 29, 2020
Adam shares his post-SCA journey, his fourth dimension at Pixar, and how he defines the part of a cinematographer beyond the different formats of cinema in this alumni spotlight.
Outset Expect 2020: Breach of Trust
Winner of the Manufacture Award for Best Documentary
May 15, 2020
The Commencement Look Film Festival is the USC Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts' commemoration of the best advanced student films of the year. Presented past the Office of Industry Relations. This is one in a series of stories about the filmmakers' motivations behind their Commencement Wait projects: Breach of Trust, winner of the Industry Award for Documentary.
Alumni Spotlight: Merawi Gerima '18
May eleven, 2020
Merawi takes united states of america through the process of making his very personal characteristic film debutResidue and the importance of beingness authentic.
First Look 2020 Awardees Announced!
The USC School of Cinematic Arts Recognizes the Yr'due south Outstanding Educatee Films.
May 11, 2020
The USC School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) Office of Industry Relations today announced its Kickoff Look Awards for outstanding SCA pupil films. A jury of made upwardly of industry professionals chose winners in 6 categories: Animation, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Social Alter, Thriller/Sci-fi/Horror. Awards were besides given to individual students in vii specialties—Directing, Cinematography, Editing, Producing, Production Design, Screenwriting and Audio—with winners chosen past SCA faculty members.
Starting time Expect 2020: Become! Get!
Go! Go! Wins Industry Award for Blitheness
May 11, 2020
The First Look Picture Festival is the USC School of Cinematic Arts' celebration of the best advanced educatee films of the yr. Presented by the Office of Industry Relations. This is one in a series of stories about the filmmakers' motivations behind their Showtime Await projects: Become! Go!, winner of the Industry Award for Animation.
First Look 2020: Piggy Bank Proposition
Piggy Banking company Proffer Wins Manufacture Award for Comedy
May xi, 2020
The First Expect Film Festival is the USC School of Cinematic Arts' celebration of the best advanced pupil films of the year. Presented by the Office of Industry Relations. This is one in a series of stories about the filmmakers' motivations behind their First Expect projects: Piggy Depository financial institution Proposition, winner of the Industry Honour for Comedy.
Gameplay in a Bottle
May eight, 2020
Creative Director Brooke Jaffe tells us how a cancer diagnosis led to the artistic process of creating the game Bottles.
A Masterclass in Vertical Filmmaking
With Tribeca winner Girls Room, alumnus Ruben Contreras offers lessons in shooting for mobile
April 30, 2020
School of Cinematic Arts alumnus Cinematographer Ruben Contreras talks working on honour winning IGTV series, Daughter's Room.
A Warning well-nigh Life After COVID
School of Cinematic Arts graduate Julio Vincent Gambuto goes viral with a prescient essay
April 23, 2020
SCA Picture and Boob tube Production student Julio Vincent Gambuto warns that companies will try to position their products as the feel-good antidotes to all the trauma and inequities the quarantine uncovered.
Animation Alumnus Van Phan Premieres at Tribeca
His VR projection Upstander is bachelor online offset April 17
April 17, 2020
Van Phan has been making notable blithe films since graduation from the John C. Hench Division of Blitheness & Digital Arts with an MFA in 2000. Yet, he finally achieved ane of his career goals this year when his VR film Upstander, which challenges viewers to face bullying, was accepted into the 2020 Tribeca Movie Festival.
Alumni Spotlight: Edson Oda '15
Apr 7, 2020
Edson takes us through his journey writing 9 Days, how he's coping with COVID-19, and why he keeps returning to campus to write.
The Testify Will Keep! USC Games Expo 2020 Appear!
USC Games and Jam City Denote a Digital Event to Showcase the Future of Gaming
April 3, 2020
The USC Games Expo presented by Jam Metropolis is the largest University-sponsored gaming and esports event in the globe. It provides a glimpse into the nation's leading game pattern programme and the side by side generation of tabletop, mobile, AR video games and other interactive projects from the university's diverse students, alumni and faculty.
Zoomanji
An SCA virtual claiming for USC students and alumni
April ii, 2020
SCA alumni Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanianhost a Q&A for their 2018 filmSearchingand help denote a new virtual filmmaking challange.
Studio Day for Animation Students
The Hench DADA Sectionalization hosted studio executives for a day of insider advice
March 19, 2020
The John C. Hench Segmentation of Animation & Digital Arts (Hench DADA) held its annual Studio Mean solar day on Monday March 9, transforming the SCA Gallery into a meeting space for students and studio executives who came to campus to requite career communication and recruit students for internships and jobs.
Alumni Spotlight: Eric Hoyt
THE 21ST CENTURY ARCHIVIST
March 10, 2020
SCA Alumni is revolutionizing archival research with Lantern Digital search engine.
Alumni Spotlight: Davah Avena
SCA SCRIBE HAS CARVED OUT A WRITING CAREER IN COMEDY, AND DRAMA
March 4, 2020
SCA Alumni Davah Scribe has carved a career writing for successful comedy and drama series.
Esports arrives at USC
A NEW VARSITY TROJAN Team TAKES THE (VIRTUAL) FIELD
March 3, 2020
USC'southward varsity esports team joins
Stark 40th
Stark Product Program Celebrates its 40th Anniversary
March 3, 2020
On October 20th, 2019, SCA welcomed the Stark program alumni back to campus to reminisce and gloat this milestone together.
A TRANSFORMATIVE TROJAN
JOHN SINGLETON'S INFLUENCE ON A NEW GENERATION OF FILMMAKERS
February 26, 2020
A Los Angeles native, John Singleton belonged to every subset of the SCA family, standing to influence new generations of filmmakers and auteurs.
The New DKA
February 12, 2020
The Cinema Fraternity that started at USC gets a campus reinvention.
Starkies at Sundance
Ten creators from Peter Stark Producing Programme take Park Metropolis
February 11, 2020
Conversation with Peter Stark production students about their trip to Sundance motion picture festival.
A Chat with Emre Okten, 2019 Educatee Academy Award Winner
December 4, 2019
On Oct 17th, Okten'southward animated sci-fi short, Ii, which tracks a robot named '2' on an abandoned spaceship, was awarded the bronze medal for animation at the Student Academy Awards. Okten was built-in and raised in Turkey. His piece of work merges his interests in technology and fine art, and his beloved of science fiction.
John H. Mitchell Endowment for the Business of Entertainment Launched
November 22, 2019
On November 19thursday the School of Cinematic Arts historic the institution of the John H. Mitchell Endowment for the Business concern of Entertainment, which volition support classes in entertainment business and will provide financial support to students preparation for jobs in the industry's executive suites.
Stark Turns forty!
Alumni of the Peter Stark Producing Programme come dorsum to campus for a reunion celebration
November eighteen, 2019
In the fall of 1979, the Peter Stark Motion Moving picture Producing Plan opened its doors to its outset class of students. A lot has changed in the manufacture since so, but the programme's cadre values endure.
"Making Waves"
SCA Professor Midge Costin documents our visceral response to cinematic sound
October 16, 2019
Costin covers working with students on sound, her film, the progression of cinematic audio throughout history, and her love of cars (for their sounds!)
"Now, the Floodgates are Open"
Suzanne Todd '86 visits Picture Symposium to talk Disney+, Phone call of Duty, Jexi, and Storytelling
October eleven, 2019
Todd visited Leonard Maltin'due south class subsequently a screening of her newest film,Jexi.
Coming Out, Italian Manner
Valentino Misino 'xix uses his thesis documentary to show his true self
October 4, 2019
Valentino talks growing up in Italia, his influences, and the conception/making of his thesis filmSwipe Me Tender
"Don't Chase the Now, Chase the Timeless"
Notes from Stephen Chbosky'southward Visit to the Writing Sectionalization'south 'Conversations With...' Series
September 27, 2019
Chbosky (Perks of Being a Wallflower, Wonder, Beauty and the Beast) talks the craft, telling teen stories, his fourth dimension at SCA, and his next projects.
Grazer & Daley in Conversation
September 17, 2019
Collaboration. Networking. Human relationship Building. These man connections are the building blocks of success in the amusement business organization. That was the bulletin legendary producer Bryan Grazer brought to the School of Cinematic Arts (SCA). It'due south too the theme of his new book Face to Face: the Art of Human Connection.
"Enter the Anime"
Alex Burunova '09 talks start characteristic (Netflix's Enter the Anime) and her creative process
September 13, 2019
Burunova's feature debut dropped on Netflix in August. Here, she talks her creative procedure, bringing the project to life, and what's next.
In Memoriam: Mardik Martin
Screenwriter of Raging Bull and Hateful Streets was 82
September 12, 2019
USC Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts Faculty member Mardik Martin passed abroad on September eleven, 2019. Martin is remembered by faculty, staff, and students for his energetic teaching style, passion for storytelling, and incredible memories from the "New Hollywood" era of filmmaking.
"Pioneers in Skirts"
Ashley Maria MFA '12 on Rallying Against Gender Discrimination via her New Characteristic Documentary
September 11, 2019
Ashley Maria MFA '12 talks her latest documentary, "Pioneers in Skirts," which tackles the trials and tribulations of gender discrimination –– bug that "chip at abroad at a adult female, injure her potential, and make her feel similar she must re-think her dreams".
River Gallo '18 Reps New Jersey, the Intersex Community, (and SCA), with Buzzworthy Short Ponyboi
July 25, 2019
Through the writing, shooting, and piecing together of the Ponyboi, Gallo grew into his identity, and so, was shocked to find out, became the creator of the start motion-picture show written past and starring an intersex person in picture history. "I actually didn't believe it until we looked information technology upwardly," he laughs, "and there's cypher! No one before this."
USC Among Three Universities to Share $50 1000000 Gift from The Patricia Due west. Mitchell Trusts
The gift honors television trailblazer John H. Mitchell and volition support initiatives in Diversity
June 20, 2019
USC is one of three universities that will share a gift of $l million, focused on ethics and diversity in business, areas that have become of greater importance and business organisation in recent years. The souvenir, from the Patricia W. Mitchell Trusts, was conceived by the belatedly philanthropist Patricia West. Mitchell to honor the legacy of her husband, John H. Mitchell, a television pioneer who died in 1988, and was President of Columbia Pictures Television in the 60s and 70s. It is administered by William C. Allen, trustee of the Patricia Westward. Mitchell Trusts. The other two universities to do good are UCLA, which will receive $20 meg; and the University of Michigan, John Mitchell's alma mater, which will receive $10 million.
90th Anniversary Alumni Conversation Serial
'90s Alumni Talk 290, Collaboration, Pursuing Passions
May 30, 2019
Susan Downey '95, Rian Johnson '96, Rick Famuyiwa '96, Danny Stiff '96, Sasha Alexander '97, Joe Nussbaum '96, Richard Kelly '97, spend a dark in Norris, talking USC, their careers, and answering educatee questions in an extended Q&A
Commencement Speakers 2019
May 13, 2019
Universal Film Chairman Donna Langley was the 2019 beginning speaker. Nahnatchka Khan was the 2019 Mary Pickford Alumni Award
Game Innovation Lab Nabs $300,000 Grant to Expand "Walden"
April 29, 2019
10 years in the making, USC Game Innovation Lab's honor-winning "Walden, a game" immerses users in a bucolic environment inspired past Henry David Thoreau'due south classic memoir. The virtual world of "Walden" comes fully loaded with lush visuals and thought-provoking paths of inquiry centered on Walden Pond circa 1847, when the nature-loving philosopher built a motel in the Massachusetts forest. Lauded for incorporating themes similar ecosystems, culture, and political activism into its gameplay, "Walden" recently earned a spot in New York City's prestigious "Design: Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial" exhibition, running through January.
Rosenberg and August at SCA
April 25, 2019
Motion picture, idiot box, and interactive media are permeated with alumni of the Peter Stark Producing Programme. Graduates from the USC producing master's division form the backbone of many Hollywood companies and office equally a "Trojan Mafia" within the "Trojan Mafia." This by Tuesday, two Starkies gathered at the USC School of Cinematic Arts to concord a talk and Q and A to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the School.
90th Ceremony Alumni Chat Serial: Behind the Curtain
Kevin McCollum (MFA '89) & Karey Kirkpatrick (BFA '88) Bandy SCA Stories, Sing Songs, Sling Advice
April 23, 2019
Reminiscing on SCA times together, performing songs and unreleased demos, or passing on sage wisdom, Kirkpatrick and McCollum put on quite a show.
Mary Shelley'southward Frankenstein: Re-animated!
Six USC Schools, Over 140 Students, Sow Shelley'south Story into Collaborative Creation
April 16, 2019
On Thursday, Apr eleven, 2019, USC and the local customs gathered in forepart of Doheny Library for a breathtaking display of light and sound projected confronting the facade of the building. The projection was a joint collaboration between the Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts, the Kaufman School of Dance, Roski School of Art & Pattern, the Schoolhouse of Architecture, the Thornton School of Music, and the School of Dramatic Arts. It is the start collaboration of its kind and has been in the works for eighteen months.
Shattering the Glass Frame; Breaking the Ice
Women animators call for alter, and a regular forum
Apr xvi, 2019
Six months ago at the USC Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts, hundreds of attendees showed up for an event that had the potential to be a new battleground against systematic gender inequalities that seem everpresent in the entertainment industry. This fight was particular to the field of Animation and the issue was titled Breaking the Glass Frame (BTGF).
AMPAS Celebrates xc Years of USC Cinema
Featuring a Discussion with Oscar Nominees and USC Alums
April ten, 2019
In a nighttime of moving-picture show watching and movie talking, the University of Motility Picture Arts & Sciences welcomed and celebrated ninety years of the USC Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts.
SCA Mourns Professor Norman Hollyn
March 19, 2019
Norman Hollyn, tenured SCA professor of twenty years and the inaugural holder of the Michael Kahn Endowed Chair in Editing, died unexpectedly on Sunday, March 17th. He was 66 years erstwhile.
Carving a Path Out of Hollywood's History
Xavier Burgin MFA 'xv on Social Media, Storytelling, and his latest 'Shudder' Documentary
March 4, 2019
Burgin's feature film documentary debut,Horror Noire, premiered on streaming service Shudder in February.
SCA Alums Win Best Short Documentary Oscar
Period. End of Judgement. chronicles the issues women face when their periods are considered taboo
February 25, 2019
Period. End of Sentence. is directed by production alum Rayka Zehtabchi '16, shot by production alum Sam Davis 'xvi, and executive produced by Helen Yenser, who graduates from the Wells Writing Division in May.
Rawson Marshall Thurber & Jon M. Chu
February 13, 2019
Alumni Rawson Marshall Thurber (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) and Jon Chiliad. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians) kick off our 90th Anniversary Serial in a conversation with each other about their experiences at SCA and throughout their careers.
True Crime, Teaching, and Height Knots
Skye Borgman MFA '05 Reflects on Her New Documentary
February 13, 2019
Borgman discusses her Netflix documentaryAbducted In Plainly Sight,her filmmaking procedure, her past piece of work, and teaching at the school where she honed her craft.
From Egypt to SCA and Back Again
December 21, 2018
Alumnus Adam Nazih Makary, who graduated in 2018 with an MFA in Picture show & Television Product, is at present in Cairo, Egypt working on his debut feature. Makary, a former journalist, is adapting the classic novelBeer in the Snooker Club, a story of identity, politics, and coming-of-historic period in the midst of an Egyptian revolution.
Alumnus Maintains His Artistic Bulldoze While Battling ALS
December four, 2018
Jon Huntley, who graduated in 1997 from the School of Cinematic Arts with an MFA in Production, recently wrote and edited the short picture showMatt and Maya. Huntley has been living with advancing ALS, a nervous system illness that impacts all concrete functions, rendering him unable to speak or move his arms or legs. However, while living in long-term care at intendance at the Wasserman Campus of the Motion Motion-picture show & Boob tube Fund, Huntley found the support and resources to live out his dreams. Read more about Huntley'southward journeying in making Matt and Maya.
Pam Douglas' Book Gets 4th Edition
Writing Professors' Iconic Work in Stores November 1st
November xx, 2018
Television has been chosen the new novel by media scholars. Women and men who wish to express themselves in modern times turn to the small screen as often every bit they turn to the written word or the film industry. John Wells Division of Writing for Screen & Television Professor Pam Douglas was ahead of the curve on treating television drama equally an art form. Her volume Writing the Goggle box Drama Series was a pioneering work that treated TV every bit fine art and continues to be the go to instructional book for aspiring writers.
SCA One-act Fest: Women Running the Show
November 20, 2018
Prominent bear witness-runners Yvette Lee Bowser (executive producer of Netflix'due south Dearest White People ), Natasha Leggero (co-creator and executive producer of Comedy Key's Another Period ), and Gemma Bakery (co-creator and executive producer of Mom on CBS) kicked off Sabbatum of SCA One-act Fest. They sat down for an insightful, inspirational, and informative panel discussion about the ever-changing voice and influence of telly. Read about their feel-from how they came to find their own writing voices, to making the transition to a direction role, to advice for other women hoping to break into television.
Frasier: 25th Anniversary Commemoration
November nineteen, 2018
The Eileen Norris Movie theater Theater was home to a lively reunion for office of the classic sitcom Frasier's cast and crew. They reminisced about the creation procedure, and hinted at what the future hold for the iconic Frasier characters. Read about the most popular upshot from the fourth installment of USC Comedy Fest.
From the School of Cinematic Arts to Pixar Animation Studios
November fifteen, 2018
Mahyar Abousaeedi, who got his MFA in Animation in 2004, is amazed that information technology has been 15 years since he started working at Pixar. He sat down with his alma mater to share the anarchistic story of how he decided to change careers and moved to California on an artistic hunch. Read about how Abousaeedi's time at SCA prepared him for a career in animation during a time of great technological change, and his communication for future filmmakers.
Documentarian Finds Herself Behind the Lens
November two, 2018
MFA candidate Mary Gerretsen has found a unique way of agreement her own life experience through the stories of others. Gerretsen came to SCA after working in tv in Canada with a clear focus of wanting to make documentaries. She grew up with filmmaker parents, who taught her the ability of cinema and the importance of laughing through pain. Now, Gerretsen is exploring those same themes in her work. Read about her journey of success and sel-discovery.
Animation Student Creates VR Game for Oculus
Oct 15, 2018
Senior Brenda Chen's VR game Chrysalis, which was commissioned by Oculus for its Rift headset, is now available online. Chen was 1 of xiv winners of the Oculus Launch Pad competition, and her demo was called from hundreds of pitches to be funded past Oculus to become a fully realized game.Chrysalis is a virtual reality exploration game where the histrion gets swallowed by a giant body of water beast and goes on an chance in its belly, filled with puzzles, plot twists, and goofy characters along the fashion.
Writing Student Wins One thousand thousand-Dollar Screenplay Competition
Oct 15, 2018
Stanley Kalu, senior in the John Wells Partition of Writing for Screen & Television set, has won the 2018 The LAUNCH screenwriting contest, which offers at least one million dollars in film financing and a $50,000 education grant to the winner. The competition was open up to students in accredited institutions from all over the earth, and Kalu's screenplay, The Obituary of Tunde Johnson,was selected and is now in development.
SCA Wins Big at Student University Awards
October 12, 2018
The Student Academy Awards recognizes the best projects made by students enrolled in
colleges and universities around the world, with Gold, Silver and Statuary medals going to
awardees whose films emerge equally the best of their categories. Of the more than 1500 entries
from 400 schools represented in this year'south contest, USC School of Cinematic Arts student
films claimed prizes in narrative, documentary and animation categories for U.S.-based
programs:
SCA Rocks the Vote
Oct 9, 2018
SCA Votes organizes a Pizza+Democracy 24-hour interval to get the community registered to vote!
John Carpenter Brings Halloween to SCA
Alum screens iconic horror film
September 26, 2018
When talking well-nigh the alumni of the Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts who have changed the film, television set, and video games manufacture, any list will exist incomplete without horror icon John Carpenter. Most notably, his work with fellow alumi Dan O'Bannon and Nick Castle.
Sundance Hit Searching Gets Major Theatrical Release
August 23, 2018
The highly predictable thriller Searching,which was written, directed, filmed, edited, scored, and produced by USC alumni, played to a total firm at Eileen Norris Cinema Theater on July 18th.Searching, which opens in theaters nation wide Labor Day Weekend, is the first characteristic film to exist made entirely from the vantage point of a reckoner screen. The immature and innovative alumni sat down with SCA before the screening for an intimate conversation about their journey from motion picture school to the big screen.
Christine Acham Named Banana Dean of Diversity and Inclusion
August 20, 2018
The Partitioning of Movie house and Media Studies professor is the commencement to concord this permanent deanship at SCA, highlighting the School's delivery to educate, empower, and engage all students, faculty, and staff. Read her perspective on the new position and program plans for the coming year.
Crazy Rich Asians Screened at USC Opening Nighttime
August 17, 2018
Alumni Jon Chu and Kevin Tsujihara brought their highly anticipated movie to SCA, followed by a lively Q&A about culture and representation in Hollywood. Manager Jon Chu, who graduated from the Partition of Film & Television Production in 2003, shared his experience and advice with the audience, while 1983 USC graduate and Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros, Kevin Tsujihara, reflected on his Trojan Family unit legacy and the future of Asian Americans on the big screen.
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