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UCLA sweeps 2008 Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards For the first time in its 53 year history the annual Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards, which recognize excellence in dramatic writing, have been swept by students from a single program. The Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards were founded by Samuel Goldwyn Sr. in 1955 to encourage young writers. The awards competition is open to all University of California students. This year's winners were selected from a field of more than 120 feature-length script submissions from eight UC campuses. But when the winner and finalists were announced Monday by Samuel Goldwyn Jr., president of the Samuel Goldwyn Foundation, during a ceremony at UCLA, which turned out to be the School all of them attended. Read More...
A message from TFT Dean, Teri Schwartz
"UCLA Arts Camp 2010 is once again offering the finest training for the next generation of talented young artists. This is the only School of The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) has an international reputation for offering the finest in professional training to its students; and the UCLA Arts Camp/Workshops, in association with US Performing Arts, maintains that tradition. All offerings are taught by members of the UCLA faculty who are also working professionals in their respective fields. The quality of our summer workshop program is enhanced by the exceptional relationship that TFT has developed with the international and local entertainment industries. The success of the summer camps matters a great deal to TFT for many reasons: It enables the School to reach out beyond the boundaries of the University to the broader community; it is consistent with our mission of educating the next generation of artists in the performing and media arts; and for the administrators and faculty of the workshops, it is a gratifying experience to have such an exchange with so many dynamic young people.
We invite you to join the UCLA family by participating this summer in one or more of our exciting programs."
UCLA NewsFilm & Television Archive awarded Telluride Film Festival Special Medallion
"Telluride Film Festival is proud to celebrate the UCLA Film & Television Archive with our Special Medallion award," Festival co-directors Tom Luddy, Gary Meyer and Julie Huntsinger said jointly. "Their commitment to film preservation and artful programming is tremendously honorable; without which film festivals like us would suffer dearly in our own programming. We look forward to an ongoing, collaborative partnership." The Medallion will be presented on Sunday, September 5 at the 37th Telluride Film Festival to Teri Schwartz, dean of the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television, and Jan-Christopher Horak, director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. "The Archive is truly a jewel in the crown of the School of Theater, Film and Television," said Schwartz. "Not only a source of enormous pride for its work in preserving these key elements of cultural history, but also as a unique educational and exhibition resource for our faculty, students and everyone who loves and treasures film." "The UCLA Film & Television Archive is honored to receive this award from a Festival that not only features some of today's best contemporary filmmakers, but also pays tribute to the classic films and filmmakers of the past," said Horak. Previous recipients of the Special Medallion have included filmmakers Joseph Losey and Stan Brakhage; critics Leonard Maltin, Andrew Sarris and Manny Farber; Hollywood executives Roger Mayer and Ted Turner; French film magazine Positif; and the BBC documentary series "Arena." To celebrate the award, there will be several special programs at the Festival: - the UCLA Film & Television Archive's print of Brandy in the Wildernesss (1968, Stanton Kaye) will screen on both Friday and Saturday afternoon at Masons Hall Cinema (the film has been slated for future restoration by the Archive) - "Treasures from UCLA," including newsreels, short films and before/after restoration clips will screen at the Special Medallion tribute on Sunday morning at the Sheridan Opera House - the Archive's restoration of Chicago (1927) will be presented with live musical accompaniment by the Mont Alto Orchestra at the Galaxy theater on Sunday afternoon. In addition, Teri Schwartz and TFT will host the Guest Director/Artist Reception at the Ralph Eggleston Gallery on Saturday afternoon. The reception honors both Eggleston (who created the 2010 Telluride Film Festival poster) and writer Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient). The UCLA Film & Television Archive is internationally renowned for its pioneering efforts to rescue, preserve and showcase moving image media. Many of the Archive's most important restoration projects--Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder), The Red Shoes (1948, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger), The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton), Scorpio Rising (1963, Kenneth Anger), A Woman Under the Influence (1974, John Cassavetes) and The Times of Harvey Milk (1984, Robert Epstein)--have been screened at prestigious events around the globe and released on DVD. A unique resource for media study, the Archive protects a vast collection of film, television and digital media. The Archive Research and Study Center (ARSC) on the UCLA campus provides unique and free access to its collections for more than 10,000 international visitors each year. The Archive also screens an ambitious year-round film program at its Billy Wilder Theater, bringing the world's cinematic treasures to Los Angeles audiences. The vision of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television is to serve as a premier global interdisciplinary professional school that develops outstanding humanistic storytellers, industry leaders and scholars whose diverse, innovative voices enlighten, engage and inspire change for a better world. Consistently ranked as one of the top two elite media arts institutions in the world, the School offers an innovative curriculum that integrates the study and creation of live performance, moving image media and the digital arts. Its distinguished programs include writing, directing, acting, producing, animation, cinematography, costume design, lighting design, set design and sound design, and offers PhDs in Theater and Performance Studies and Cinema & Media Studies. The prestigious Telluride Film Festival ranks among the world's best film festivals and is an annual gathering of cinema enthusiasts, filmmakers, critics and industry insiders. It is considered a major launching ground for the fall season's most talked-about films. Co-founded in 1974 by Tom Luddy, James Card and Bill and Stella Pence, Telluride Film Festival, nestled in the beautiful mountain town of Telluride, Colorado, is a four-day international educational event celebrating the art of film. The Festival's long-standing commitment is to join filmmakers and film connoisseurs together to experience great cinema. The exciting schedule, kept secret until Opening Day, consists of film debuts with filmmakers presenting their works, special tributes and remarkable treasures from the past. Festival headquarters are in Berkeley, California. -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/event/758-2010-telluride-film-fest/ Posted on 2 September 2010 | 12:00 am Warthogs on television
The show, "What's Up, Warthogs!," follows the antics of a group of teens who team up to transform their school's boring PA announcements into a hilarious news show that comments on, as well as reporting, the latest news.
-- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/press/756-warthogs/ Posted on 23 August 2010 | 12:00 am TFT Professor Rodrigue talks manly men
Indiewire reports:
Click Here to view the full interview. -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/press/757-jean-louis-rodrigue/ Posted on 23 August 2010 | 12:00 am Second David C. Copley Prize awarded at San Diego Comic-Con
The prize went to Anthony and Master Le for their recreation of the character "War Machine" from "Iron Man 2." Blackman called the intricately detailed costume a "technical miracle." The winners received $100 and an autographed copy of the book "Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design," by David C. Copley Chair, Professor Deborah Landis, Director of the Copley Center. Landis and Copley traveled to San Diego in 2009 to jointly announce the founding of the Copley Center from the stage during the first prize ceremony. Robert Blackman is a Comic Con celebrity in his own right, having designed the costumes for "Pushing Daisies" and the three most recent "Star Trek" TV shows, "Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Star Trek: Voyager" and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." "Comic-Con is a wonderful venue to see all the new action, and animated features," Blackman said, "as well as panels featuring all your favorite action performers, as well as designers. It is a blast!" As TFT professor Jonathan Kuntz wrote in his coverage of the event last, year, "San Diego's Comic-Con, created in 1970 as an annual event for a few hundred fans to trade comic books, while discussing science fiction and fantasy, has grown into a pop culture Sundance that sells out months in advance to 125,000 attendees, with a guest list that challenges Cannes. [Comic Con] is the crucial launch pad for upcoming films, TV shows, games and many other forms of cult cultural media."Kuntz attended the Con again this year, along with daughter Rebecca Kuntz and TFT staffer Sheila Roberts. They agreed to share some of their photographic keepsakes.. Photo of War Machine and Robert Blackman by Valerie Levan-Cooper Slideshow photos by Sheila Roberts and Rebecca Kuntz.. -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/announcement/754-2010_comic-con/ Posted on 27 July 2010 | 12:00 am Oscar-winner Gibney has four documentaries opening in 2010
The most provocative is an as yet untitled Eliot Spitzer documentary, which charts the former New York governor's meteoric rise and scandalous fall and quickly became the hottest ticket at the Tribeca Film Festival. -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/press/740-alex-gibney_time/ Posted on 25 July 2010 | 12:00 am Jennifer Arnold's "A Small Act" at IFP/UN Forum, on HBO in July
From July 24 to August the film will be screened several times at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. The film was a centerpiece, along with Oscar-winner Davis Guggenheim's "Waiting for 'Superman,'" at a day-long event onJuly 10, jointly sponsored by the Independent Filmmaker Project and the United Nations Department of Public Information, exploring creative solutions to the global education crisis. A specific focus is the UN's Millennium Development Goal of achieving universal primary education. "A Small Act" was an audience favorite and a Grand Jury Prize nominee at Sundance. In June it capped a successful tour of the Festival circuit with the two top prizes at Nantucket, the Adrienne Shelley Excellence in Filmmaking Award and the Audience Award for Best Feature. The "small act" of the title was performed more than thirty years ago by Hilde Back, a Swedish kindergarten teacher who decided to sponsor a Kenyan school child. That child, Chris Mburu, was thus able to finish school and attend college and Harvard Law. As an adult he became a United Nations human rights attorney and launched a scholarship fund of his own, named after his benefactor. Arnold's film follows both Back and Mburu, as their trajectories intersect with those of the students in Mburu's home village who are competing for the Hilda Back Scholarship. Reviews have mostly been raves, like this one in "The Hollywood Reporter:" "A Small Act" debuts on HBO, Monday, July 12 at 9 p.m., with additional screenings on July 15 (12:30 p.m. and12:30 a.m.), July 18 (11:45 a.m.), July 20 (9:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.) and July 24 (4:00 p.m.) It also plays HBO2 on July 14 (9:45 p.m.) and July 31 (9:30 a.m.).on A SMALL ACT Trailer 2010 from Jennifer Arnold on Vimeo. -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/announcement/741-small-act_hbo/ Posted on 25 July 2010 | 12:00 am Stuhlbarg signs up for "Hugo Cabret"
"The Hollywood Reporter" describes the film as: "Cabret" centers on Hugo (Butterfield), an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. When he encounters a broken machine, an eccentric girl (Moretz) and a cold, reserved man (Kingsley) who runs a toy shop, he is caught up in a magical, mysterious adventure that could put his secrets in jeopardy -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/press/752-hugo-cabret/ Posted on 23 July 2010 | 12:00 am Black catches the "Barefoot Bandit"
"Variety" reports: Black, an Oscar winner for "Milk," wrote and directed the upcoming "What's Wrong With Virginia?" He penned the screenplay for "3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man" at Warner Bros. -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/press/753-bandit-lance-black/ Posted on 23 July 2010 | 12:00 am VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Archive pays tribute to donor and film lover Hugh Hefner
Hefner joined TFT Dean Teri Schwartz, Archive Director Jan-Christopher Horak and Oscar-winning filmmaker Brigitte Berman ("Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got") at the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood for a gala screening of Berman's upcoming documentary, "Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel." "I love that title," said Dean Schwartz, in her opening remarks at the event, "and at the School of Theater, Film and Television we have three other special words we like to use when describing Mr. Hefner: Film lover, philanthropist and friend." A lifelong champion of film preservation and restoration, Mr. Hefner has funded UCLA's preservation of more than 25 feature films, including Howard Hawk's classic "The Big Sleep" and numerous Sherlock Holmes and Fu Manchu titles. In 2005, he endowed the ongoing "Hugh M. Hefner Classiic American Film Program," to assure that the Archive will be able to continue sharing classic American films with Los Angeles audiences for years to come. Hefner has also saved LA's iconic hillside landmark, the HOLLYWOOD sign, not once, but twice. In the 1970s he helped to restore the sign itself. This year he made the vital gift that put the campaign to save the land surrounding the sign over the top. Brigitte Berman has produced and directed more than one hundred documentaries for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Her filmography includes "Bix" (1981) and "The Circle Game" (1994). Her biographical documentary about Hefner makes the case that his legacy extends well beyond "Playboy" and the sexual revolution, touching every aspect of American society, from the arts to politics to civil rights. Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel" will be released in the U.S. in July and August by Phase 4 Films. -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/announcement/749-hefner-tribute/ Posted on 13 July 2010 | 12:00 am MFA screenwriting student, alum pen Emmy-nominated PSA
Phelps and Gilbert collaborated on the superhero-themed PSA with producer director Nancy Rae Stone. The PSA uses humor to encourage people to "be superheroes" in their devotion to a good cause. The 62nd Los Angeles Area Emmy® Awards ceremony will be held July 31, at Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood. The Westside Foodbank collects food for distribution to 65 food pantries and other organizations serving needy families on the Westside of Los Angeles. It acquires much of its food through donations, notably from the a statewide "Farm to Family" distribution program. Their program Extra Helpings Westside recovers food that would otherwise be thrown away by bakeries, restaurants, caterers and food suppliers. The Food Bank must still purchase almost half of all the food it distributes from wholesale merchants. -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/accolade/751-food-bank_psa/ Posted on 13 July 2010 | 12:00 am Third year for "New Playwrights at UCLA" journal
Standout offerings include "Gross Sales," from second-year playwriting student Erica Jones, the School's first recipient of the Beverly J. Robinson Memorial Fellowship for Playwriting. In addition to the full-length works from the annual New Play Festival, an event that has been showcased in two earlier issues, the criteria for publication have been expanded to include shorter works from the 2009 and 2010 Francis Ford Coppola One-Act Festivals and three Ten-Minute Plays, by Alex Maggio, Joe Marciniak and Kate Sullivan Gibbens, that have been selected for full productions or staged readings in 2010. "The plays this year have characters precariously balanced on the slippery edges of inspired imagination," writes Edit Villarreal, Chair of the MFA Playwriting Program, in her introduction to this ground-breaking publication. "Leaping into the unknown, they embark on surprising new lives with unlikely partners, tangle with The American Dream as it corrodes around them, strike back against long standing cultural expectations, foment rhapsodic love and death on the same sultry night, hijack teen age romance to a lonely isle, holler and scream over death by bulldozer, and discover new worlds after a heart transplant." This year's Journal also contains credits and photos from other 2010 One-Acts, Marianne Murphy and Women & Philanthropy play readings, as well as a list of One Person Plays and an adaptation for the stage, written this year. -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/announcement/748-new-playwrights-3/ Posted on 12 July 2010 | 12:00 am Mazeau +1 on "Clash 2"
Mazeau was once attached to write the big-screen exploits of DC Comics' speedster The Flash before the restructuring at Warner division DC Entertainment ... "Clash 2" could go into production as early as January 2011 and will be shot in 3-D, rather than converted after-the-fact the way the first movie was.Named a Screenwriter to Watch in 2008, Mazeau joined the UCLA Professional Program in Screenwriting in 2004. A script he wrote there, "The Land of Lost Things," won both the Professional Program writing contest and the Nate Wilson Joie de Vivre Award. The script was sold to Nickelodeon in 2006 and Mazeau has been working steadily ever since, on high-profile projects such as a live-action "Jonny Quest" adaptation at Warner Bros. and an as-yet untitled thriller about a privately-funded expedition to the moon, for producer Steven Speilberg and direcetor Doug Liman. -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/press/746-mazeau_clash/ Posted on 1 July 2010 | 12:00 am Nelson's "Devil" for Shyamalan
Based on a story by producer M. Night Shyamalan and directed by John Erick and Drew Dowdle ("Quarantine"), the film stars Chris Messina ("Greenberg") as a cashiered homicide detective trapped in a stalled elevator with a group of strangers -- one of whom may be The Prince of Darkness. "Devil" is the first of three supernatural features to be conceived and produced by Shyamalan under the "Night Chroniles" title, to be released one per year by Universal. Nelson was hired to write "Hard Candy" after director David Slade ("The Twilight Saga: Eclipse") saw one of his plays staged in Los Angeles, reasoning that a playwright would be a good fit for a story that unfolds almost entirely in the living room of one of the major characters. -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/press/744-nelson_devil/ Posted on 1 July 2010 | 12:00 am Two New Gore Movies
James Thurber wrote the original short story, which was first adapted for the big screen in 1947 with Danny Kaye in the title role.The remake will be produced by long-time TFT patron Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. and John Goldwyn, son and grandson of the legendary producer of the '47 version. Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey, Owen Wilson, Sacha Baron Cohen and Whoopi Goldberg have been mentioned as candidates for the title role. Verbinski's upcoming 2011 release "Rango" is his first animated production. The voice of "Pirates" star Johnny Depp is featured in the title role, a "chameleon with an identity crisis" stranded in a western town called Dirt that is beseiged by bandits. -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/press/745-gore_mitty/ Posted on 1 July 2010 | 12:00 am Mike Werb's live-action "History" on Cartoon Network
The show is described as: ...an urban adventure series centered around Henry Griffin (Kevin G. Schmidt). a teenager with exceptional skills acquired through years of globe-trotting with his anthropologist parents. Henry faces his biggest challenge of all when he moves back to America to attend a high school stranger than any place he's ever lived before. Together with his cousin Jasper and his friend Maggie, he will use the ancient skills he learned around the globe in order to solve the modern mysteries of high school. "The Hollywood Reporter" describes the show as "...a robust and appealing cross between 'The Hardy Boys' and 'Indiana Jones,' with a little bit of 'National Treasure' thrown in for good measure. Although creator Mike Werb's premise is a tad far-fetched, the characters and story are engaging enough to set aside doubts. -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/press/743-werb_unnatural-history/ Posted on 30 June 2010 | 12:00 am
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