film and television

Undaunted by bias or condescension, four extraordinary women helped shape UCLA.

Thanks to a seed grant from the UCLA Pritzker Center, the Center for Scholars & Storytellers is exploring how entertainment media can highlight issues in foster care.

The donation from the Patricia W. Mitchell Trusts will also support the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

UCLA’s Hanadi Elyan says its hugely important for filmmakers from the Arab world to tell the stories of the mothers, daughters, sisters that no one else is telling.

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Stories on mobile clinics, earthquake science and Jackie Robinson.

Stories on the Internet, Arthur Ashe and The Simpsons.

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Stories on artificial intelligence, Angela Davis and alumni writers.

The project, which used a feature film and a text messaging prompt, led a record number of Nigerian citizens to report acts of misconduct.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive is crowdfunding an effort to preserve their work.

25 undergraduates who received the scholarships to pursue science, technology, engineering or math degrees visited the cast and crew as the show wraps its final season.

“We feel confident our partners in Hollywood today see the value of diversity in ways that they did not before,” said Dean Darnell Hunt, co-lead author of the report.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive will present classic Hollywood, independent films and documentaries in the Billy Wilder Theater for the festival weekend.

Alexandra Byrne, Ruth Carter, Sandy Powell and Mary Zophres will be joined at the annual Sketch to Screen event by fellow designers Erin Benach and Mary Vogt.

More inclusive films are a recent trend in the film industry, but Bruins have been ahead of that curve for a long time.

Professor Gina Kim is using virtual reality to subvert Hollywood stereotypes of Asians, women and others.

Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck featured Sarah T. Roberts in “The Cleaners” — their movie about the anonymous people who screen objectionable content on social media.

Lisa Ranran Hu’s movie, “Escape,” has challenged the status quo in her of home country of China and even attracted the attention of actress Emma Watson.

Every year for more than a decade students have won Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowships that promote science fact in film and television.

A class created by adjunct professor David Leaf will tell the band’s story through film, video and interviews with music industry executives.

Pamela Hieronymi served as a consultant to Michael Schur, creator of the hit NBC sitcom, sharing insights into moral and ethical belief systems.

In the past decade, UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television has transformed itself into a true 21st-century entertainment school.

UCLA roboticist Dennis Hong and his robot magician, MAGI, shine on the Netflix show “Magic for Humans.”