film and television

UCLA public policy alumna Snejana Daily spent a year traveling the world to tell the stories of people facing challenges across the globe in a 10-part series currently airing on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Her commitment to nonprofit work was strengthened after she suffered the loss of her husband in Iraq.

A documentary about the 2011 UCLA quidditch team's bid for the sport's world cup started as a five-minute film class project. "Mudbloods” will open in select theaters this fall.

UCLA’s Film and Television Archive will be hosting a Hollywood hero on July 25: Norma Barzman, a screenwriter who fled to France when she was blacklisted during the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s.

Students at UCLA create interactive stories using Google Glass that show how wearable technology could alter the idea of narrative.

The new Film Independent Humanitarian Award recognizes an individual in the world of film and TV whose work has demonstrated a deep commitment to humanitarian causes. Turner will receive the award June 12.

Check out this video about UCLA's collection of the pioneering work of silent film-era animators.

UCLA professor emeritus Howard Suber has played a pivotal role in the creation of key programs in UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, including the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Producer's Program, which has helped launched many a Hollywood career.

Deborah Nadoolman Landis has created a popular exhibition that illuminates the costume designer’s creative process as well as celebrates and explores costume design as a key component of cinema storytelling.

As the movie studios go digital, the UCLA Film and Television Archive and Arts Library remind people of the important role film has played in movie-making.

Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, project director with the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education where he teaches classes in labor studies, talks about the first biopic to feature iconic Chicano labor leader Cesar Chavez.

In an interview, UCLA Physics Professor David Saltzberg shares what it’s like working as thescience consultant on the hit CBS sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.”

The fifth installment of the annual conference will be held at UCLA on April 4 and will feature panelists from industry and academia discussing the forces shaping TV production and consumption in the 21st century.

For the Academy Award-winning animated film "Frozen," two UCLA mathematicians joined a team of Disney software engineers to develop an algorithm based on the material point method to create simulations of how snow behaves under various conditions.

When it comes to influential positions in the industry, minorities and women are represented at rates far below what would be expected given their percentage of the general population, according to a new UCLA study.

Two UCLA sociologists reveal the logic behind the tough gambles movie studios make — and the financial results of success or failure at the box office.

UCLA has the second-largest moving image archive in the United States after the Library of Congress, and the world’s largest university-based media archive.

The new Global Media Center for Social Impact will help screenwriters weave realistic, complex ethics and health issues into their scripts.

Carol Burnett, who discovered her love for acting and knack for comedy as an undergraduate at UCLA, got the best laughs as well as the highest honor Sunday at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

Justin Perkinson, a UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television graduate student is the eighth 2014 Fulbright Program fellow from TFT since 1993.

UCLA student screenwriter Barnett Brettler won a $50,000 prize from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for his script’s realistic depictions of science.

Alumni Shane Acker will direct a live-action feature about Thomas the Tank Engine.

The UCLA Film & Television Archive celebrates the filmmakers who told authentic stories about the black experience.

An ever-growing group of former Bruin gymnasts finds fortune, if not fame, as Hollywood stuntwomen and as acrobats in live shows like Cirque du Soleil.

How do high-achieving students like James Franco reach their intellectual goals? Ask the UCLA counseling office.