Acting Program alum Cecily Strong (Theater BFA 06) made her debut in September on NBC’s Saturday Night Live comedy program, now in its 38th season. She has made an immediate…
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CalArtians Front and Center in Made in L.A. 2012, the City’s First-Ever Biennial
CalArts alumni and faculty account for more than a third of the 60 artists featured in the large-scale survey exhibition Made in L.A. 2012, the inaugural edition of the new citywide…
Continue reading »Three CalArtian Filmmakers Tackle Family History at L.A. Film Fest
This year’s Los Angeles Film Festival, which kicks off today (June 16) includes three works by CalArtians: David Nordstrom’s debut feature Sawdust City, Kelvin Kyung Kun Park’s feature-length documentary Cheonggyecheon…
Continue reading »Mason Richards’ The Seawall Showing in Cannes
The 64th edition of the Festival de Cannes opened yesterday, and included in the prestigious festival’s short film selection is The Seawall, written and directed by Mason Richards (Film/Video MFA…
Continue reading »CalArts Filmmaker Wins Prestigious Tiger Award in Rotterdam
Natasha Mendonca (Film/Video MFA 10) has collected one of the three Tiger Awards for Short Films given out at the International Film Festival Rotterdam—one of the “big five” European film…
Continue reading »‘My Barbarian’ Exhibition on View at the Hammer Museum for One More Week
The first museum exhibition by the performance collective My Barbarian—comprising CalArts faculty member and alumnus Malik Gaines (Critical Studies MFA 99), Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade—is in its final week…
Continue reading »CalArts Students Bring Unique Adaptation of The Tempest to East Coast Tonight
Dancing Behind My Eyelids: Scene 4 from Hopelandic Theatre on Vimeo. Dancing Behind My Eyelids, the original performance piece created by School of Theater students Samantha Shay and Chelsea Didier…
Continue reading »CalArtians Among this Year’s Golden Globe Nominations
Congratulations to the CalArtians whose work has been acknowledged by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Among the Golden Globe nominees announced yesterday (Dec. 14): Tim Burton’s (Film/Video 79) vividly realized…
Continue reading »Accolades for Two Filmmakers from CalArts
Film/Video alumnus Mike Ott’s (MFA 05) feature LiTTLEROCK has earned the filmmaker a nomination for the Acura Someone to Watch Award at the upcoming Film Independent Spirit Awards. Meanwhile, Eliza…
Continue reading »Eight filmmakers from CalArts in NYFF’s Views from the Avant-Garde
The New York Film Festival (NYFF) today launches the 14th edition of Views from the Avant-Garde, the festival’s experimental showcase, which this year includes work by four CalArts faculty members,…
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