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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 NewsProfessional Program's Kanade wins Indian Festival's first Film Fund grant
Writer/director Kanade, based in both Los Angeles and Pune, India, will receive a grant of $10,000, as well as Final Draft and Sony Creative software. His script will be showcased at a staged reading during the eighth annual IFFLA that will take place April 20-25 at ArcLight Hollywood in Los Angeles. The IFFLA Film Fund seeks to help emerging filmmakers realize feature-length narrative and non-narrative film projects that reflect universal themes inherent in Indian culture. Kanade's script "Against Itself" centers on a secular expatriate American teacher in India who struggles against a tide of anti-Christian sentiment. "This script is haunting, gripping, and gritty," said screenwriter and grant jury member Gill Dennis ("Walk the Line"). "Stunningly done, beautifully good, it dissects the great mess of our humanity with equal measures of humor and horror, while capturing the hectic multiplicity of India." The grant jury also included writer-director Anurag Kashyap ("Dev D," "Black Friday") and screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala ("The Namesake," "Little Zizou"). Kanade's first feature "Mahek" (2007), which premiered at the London Film Festival, was invited to festivals in Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis and Munich. The film was nominated for the Best Children's Film prize at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Australia. Kanade is a graduate of the prestigious Film Direction course at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), the country's premiere film school. His thesis film "Chaitra" (2002) was India's official entry for the Student Academy Awards and won several National Film Awards, including Best Short Film, Best Music for Short Film (Pt Bhaskar Chandavarkar) and Jury Award for Acting (Sonali Kulkarni). -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/accolade/700-iffla-kranti/ Posted on 11 February 2010 | 5:00 pm "The Butterfly King"
After winning Best Picture and Best Actor (for TFT undergraduate Chris Reinacher) at the national Campus Film Awards, the film played at the Sundance Film Festival in January. "Butterfly King" is one of many films created by a comedy collective at UCLA called The Wait List, which has been a film, comedy and improv group for just over a year. Wait List has performed with and opened for cast members of Comedy Central's "Reno 911" and MTV's "Human Giant." "The Butterfly King" was directed and edited by UCLA Design/Media Arts tudent, Steven Wilson, who also wrote the score with music major Jason Lazarus. The film was produced by history major Zac Wolf and co-written by English-major Jordan Dunn and Reinacher. TFT actors in the cast include Mikey Hawley, Julie Alexander, Lesley Hollingsworth, Kylie Alesso and Anne Lane. These students along with alums Ali Ghandour '08 and John Davies '08 comprise The Wait List. -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/accolade/699-butterfly-king/ Posted on 8 February 2010 | 5:00 pm Rancho Cinderella
The company's resident producer, Mireya "Murry" Hepner '80, has recruited director Mark Rucker '82 to steer her latest production, a musical adapation of "Cinderella" that has been delighting children and parents nationwide. The book for the show happens also to be the work of an alumna, Phylis Ward Fox MFA '80 (now Phylis Ravel). Ravel's revision adds the White Rabbit from "Alice in Wonderland" as a new arrival on the scene, just as Gladys, the Fairy Godmother, is about to tell the story of Cinderella. Fast-thinking Gladys decides she might be able to use a rabbit to help rescue Cinderella from her wicked stepmother. The show runs from January 30 - February 13, and a discount offer is being extended to TFT alumni: If they call the box office at 909-477-2752, with the code word "UCLA," they can purchase a free child's ticket for each adult ticket purchased. (The offer applies only to tickets purchased by phone and only to tickets for certain performances: on February 6 & 13 at 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM and February 7 at 1:00 PM.) -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/announcement/697-rancho-cinderella/ Posted on 14 January 2010 | 5:00 pm Deborah Landis at Work
The recently appointed Chair of the David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design at TFT, Landis is one of Hollywood's leading costume designers, with credits ranging from "Animal House" (1978) to "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) to the Michael Jackson video "Thriller" (1983),
-- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/press/698-deborah-landis_london-2009/ Posted on 14 January 2010 | 5:00 pm Dayton and Faris have "Will"
"Little Miss Sunshine" logged four 2007 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and won two: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (Michael Arndt) and Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Alan Arkin). Dayton and Faris were honored as Filmmakers of the Year during Directors Spotlight at TFT's year-end celebration "UCLA Festival 2007: New Creative Work." -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/press/696-dayton-faris_will/ Posted on 13 January 2010 | 5:00 pm The Bruins & The "Bee"
The production is directed by Jeff Maynard '93 and features Lana McKissack '05 and Brett Ryback '06 in key roles. TFT professor Brian Kite '91, MFA '04 is Producing Artistic Director of the theatre company. "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" is the story of how six young people learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser. The production runs at La Mirada from February 5 - 21, 2010. -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/announcement/695-spelling-bee_la-mirada/ Posted on 12 January 2010 | 5:00 pm Works by two Bruins make Mother Nature's list of Ten Best eco-docs
The Mother Nature Network.com website describes Darling's film as
Darling's producing and directing credits include: "Año Nuevo" which won the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Eric Sevareid Award; "Saviors of the Forest," a feature documentary that screened at Sundance; "Farm Club," for the USA Newtork; and the first two seasons of MTV's "Laguna Beach: The Real OC." Also in Mother Nature's top ten: "No Impact Man," a sly documentary about one man's quest to lead a zero-impact lifestyle for a single year, co-written and co-directed by Laura Gabbert MFA '97. -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/accolade/694-todd-darling_snowmobile/ Posted on 6 January 2010 | 5:00 pm Theater alumna Beth Behrs makes film debut
-- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/press/693-beth-behrs_american-pie/ Posted on 6 January 2010 | 5:00 pm Andrea McCloud pitch snagged by DreamWorks
-- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/press/692-andrea-mccloud-i-saw-you/ Posted on 5 January 2010 | 5:00 pm Archive wins third consecutive Film Heritage Award for "The Red Shoes"
The award salutes the restoration of Michael Powell's classic ballet drama "The Red Shoes" (1948), by the Archive's Preservation Officer Robert Gitt. Funding was provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, The Film Foundation and the Louis B. Mayer Foundation. The Archive was cited by the National Society in 2008 for its restoration of alumnus Charles Burnett's "Killer of Sheep" (1977) and in 2009 for its work on Kent Mackenzie's "The Exiles" (1961). Robert Gitt's rehabilitation of rehearsal and test footage from director Charles Laughton's "The Night of the Hunter" (1955) also received an award from the National Society of Film Critics in 2003. -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/accolade/691-archive_red-shoes/ Posted on 4 January 2010 | 5:00 pm Professor Michael Hackett appointed Chair of UCLA Department of Theater
The announcement was made by Teri Schwartz, Dean of the School. "I am fully confident that Michael will do an outstanding job in this important role," Schwartz said, "and will provide excellent leadership in working closely with faculty and staff as the Theater Department moves into a bright future." Hackett succeeds Bill Ward as Theater Chair. Ward served from 1987 to 1993 and from 1998 to 2009. "I want to thank Professor Ward for the wonderful service that he has given to TFT as Chair of the Theater Department over these past many years," said Dean Schwartz. "The role of the Chair is a demanding and complex one, and we should all express our sincerest gratitude to Bill for giving of his time with full dedication as Chair." Hackett has directed for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden; the Royal Theatre at The Hague; the Centrum Sztuki Studio and Dramatyczny Theatre in Warsaw; the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl; the Los Angeles Opera (children's series); Musica Angelica; the Geffen Playhouse and nine radio productions for LA Theater Works. For three years, he taught at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art where he co-designed and instituted a music-drama program and gave a series of lecture/demonstrations for the Royal College of Music; he has also given workshops for the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and conducted Greek chorus workshops and performances from 1995 through 2006 for the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Familiar to opera audiences in Southern California, he has lectured extensively for the Los Angeles Opera and, for these activities, he was given the 5th Annual Peter Hemmings Award by the Opera League of Los Angeles in April 2008. Recent directing projects include Sophocles' "Philoktetes" with Henry Goodman for the Getty Villa Theater Lab, a radio production of Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" with Charles Busch, and he has been invited by his Theater Department colleague Professor Hanay Geiogamah to co-direct "Ceremony for Mother Earth: A Healing" for the American Indian Dance Theater. -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/announcement/688-michael-hackett_theater-chair/ Posted on 9 December 2009 | 5:00 pm Justin Lerner MFA '07 employs disabled actor in feature directorial debut
Also in the cast: Shannon Woodward ("The Riches"), Jackson Rathbone ("Twilight") and Amanda Plummer. Lerner hired UCLA colleague Quyen Tran '08 as cinematographer and June Suepunpuck MFA '09 as costume designer. MTV.com visited the set:
-- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/announcement/684-justin-lerner_girlfriend/ Posted on 9 December 2009 | 5:00 pm Alums Caduff, Cabrera in box[ur]shorts™
box[ur]shorts Film Festival is a yearlong short film exhibition taking place internationally inside movie jukeboxes at restaurants, bars, coffee houses and laundromats in cities from Los Angeles to Park City and New York to Basel, Switzerland. Box[ur]shorts is directed by Giacun Caduff, a 2008 graduate of the UCLA Producers Program. Writer-producer Kathy Cabrera MFA '08, works as Box(ur)'s publicist. The box[ur]shorts awards ceremony will give fans a first-look at what is to come from the company in 2010. The winning films will be announced at the awards show and screened throughout the coming year in all movie jukebox locations and online. Finalist films were selected by a panel of judges that include Japanese writer/director Shunji Iwai ("All About Lily Chou-Chou"); SONY executive Stacey Kalish; critic Erik Childress (eFilmCritic.com) and last year's Audience Choice Award-winner Michael Del Vecchio. A sneak preview of the upcoming competition is available on the official box[ur]shorts youtube site (see link at right). MovieMaker Magazine recently named box[ur]shorts in its top 20 listing of festivals for first-time filmmakers. "The festival has organically grown year to year among cinema enthusiasts, film students and the industry at large," Caduff says. "In 2010, box[ur]shorts fans can anticipate some exciting changes that will really take the festival to the next level - including a soon-to-be announced technology component that will change the way viewers worldwide view short films via our movie jukeboxes." -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/announcement/687-boxurshorts-fourth/ Posted on 9 December 2009 | 5:00 pm Alum Louis J. Horvitz '68 directs 52nd Annual Grammy Awards
PHOTO: Louis J, Horvitz, right, with producer (and former TFT dean) Gil Cates, working on one of their many Oscar broadcasts -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/press/686-2009_louis-horvitz_grammys/ Posted on 9 December 2009 | 5:00 pm Alum Aleem Hossain creates gritty web cop series
An innovative new web series called "Central Division" was launched in November by Production/Directing alum Aleem Hossain MFA '04 "It's a police thriller series," Hossain reports. "I made it in response to the lack of gritty cop shows on TV currently. 'Homicide,' 'The Shield' and 'NYPD Blue' are all long gone." "'Central Division' is a truly independent production," Hossain adds. "I wrote, directed and edited all the episodes of the first season. My crew was made up of UCLA alums and folks I met on UCLA shoots. One of the actors was in my thesis film, the other main actor was in a classmate's thesis film." The web-content aggregation site "Dauntless Media" has added "Central Division" to its Web Series Favorites section alongside big budget webisodes like "Battlestar Galactica." PHOTO: Writer-director Aleem Hossain on the gritty set of "Central Division." -- http://www.tft.ucla.edu/news/announcement/689-aleem-hossain_web-cop-series/ Posted on 9 December 2009 | 5:00 pm
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