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UCLA environmental experts featured in PBS series about sustainability
Faculty, alumni and students from multiple disciplines are helping shape stories of accountability in “Sustaining US,” whose second season debuts Oct. 6

Eric Jager’s Long Road to Hollywood
The professor’s true crime tale set in medieval France was finally turned into a film 15 years after publishing.

Two Professors Co-Direct Film About Harsh Border Crossing
“Águilas” documents hope and loss in the Arizona desert.


Film preservationist Scott MacQueen on the future of saving the past
The recently retired head of preservation at the UCLA Film & Television Archive looks back on his three-decade career.

Sparks: UCLA’s Influential Music Duo
After blazing their own musical path, Ron and Russell Mael are at the heart of two very different movies.


Cannes Classics 2021 lineup features ‘The Killing Floor’
The UCLA Film & Television Archive was involved in the film’s digital preservation.

CAP UCLA Presents Art on the Cost of Plastic
Fake fruits challenge us to think about the “foreverness” of the throwaway material.

Friends rally around late alumnus to support scholarship at UCLA TFT
Ron Baham was “the king of north campus” in the mid-80s and recently his friends raised more than $100,000 to transform a scholarship in his name into an endowment.

Pride Month: What to watch and read
UCLA staff share recommendations that highlight LGBTQ+ communities, experiences.

‘Queens at Heart’: Rediscovering a pre-Stonewall portrait of trans lives
The UCLA Film & Television Archive led the restoration of the film, which is available to stream.

LGBTQ series ‘In the Life’ remains as relevant as ever
UCLA’s archive of the groundbreaking newsmagazine provides historical context and understanding.


Chon Noriega’s visionary leadership brought Latino culture and art to the forefront
The director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center is stepping down at the end of June after nearly two decades.

Writer Moisés Zamora Leaps From UCLA Extension to ‘Selena’ on Netflix
The showrunner, who took courses in TV writing, says, ‘It was my calling to be a storyteller.’

What to read, watch or listen to during Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month
AAPI faculty and staff at UCLA recommend media that provide insights into history, culture, struggle and contributions.


2021 Hollywood Diversity Report: Audiences showed up for diverse films in theaters, online
During a fractured release year, there was progress in gender and racial representation in all key categories, but disparities in budgets.

UCLA celebrates costume designers at annual Sketch to Screen event
Deborah Nadoolman Landis, founding director of the David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design, will moderate the April 24 event.

Eight UCLA professors awarded 2021 Guggenheim Fellowships
UCLA had more faculty honored than any other university.

‘I Dare You.’ Celebrating Jazz With Terence Blanchard
As part of Jazz Appreciation Month in April, Herb Alpert School of Music’s Blanchard speaks about his work and the future of the artform.


Peter Sellars’ new project is a continent-spanning multidisciplinary film about illness
A creative response to COVID-19, ‘this body is so impermanent …’ was made by artists as a call to learn and heal together.