On Thursday (March 24), writer-director-actor Edward Burns’ latest film Nice Guy Johnny was screened in the Bijou Theater for CalArts students, and was immediately followed by a Q&A with Burns,…
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Something for the Kid in All of Us: REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival
For the next four weekends (from March 26-April 17), REDCAT will present its 6th annual International Children’s Film Festival. The festival will include a new mind-expanding collection of short film…
Continue reading »Films by CalArts Alumni in Competition at Cinema du Réel in Paris
Cinéma du Réel in Paris, first organized in 1978 by Jean-Michel Arnold and filmmaker Jean Rouch, has developed into one of the major international documentary film festivals, judging hundreds of…
Continue reading »Structuring Strategies Presents Cathy Lee Crane’s Experimental Biographies
Media artist and experimental filmmaker Cathy Lee Crane presents a program of Experimental Biographies at tonight’s Structuring Strategies film class and screening series at CalArts. Crane, the 2009 recipient of…
Continue reading »Natural Splendor: Experimental Canadian Short Films Screened Tonight
The Structuring Strategies class and screening series welcomes independent film curator Irina Leimbacher, who brings a slate of short, experimental films by artists from or living in Canada to CalArts…
Continue reading »CalArts Experimental Filmmakers in Focus
Psychohydrography from Peter Bo Rappmund on Vimeo. Several of CalArts’ experimental, documentary and live-action filmmakers have been making waves around the world for their work, with recent screenings at prestigious…
Continue reading »Ink’d: Animation by Cindey Chiang
We saw a link to the video above on CalArts’ Character Animation Program’s Twitter stream yesterday and just had to post here on 24700 as well. The short animation film…
Continue reading »Now Playing at a Computer Near You: ‘Sands of Mexico’ Series Enters the Web Frontier
Recent CalArts graduate Samantha Hatch (Film/Video MFA 10, BFA 07) has turned her 20-minute thesis film, Sands of Mexico into a web series. Hatch finished her graduate project one semester…
Continue reading »Congrats to ‘Toy Story 3,’ ‘Alice in Wonderland’ for Academy Award Wins
Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 3—which centers on Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the gang getting accidentally shipped off to a daycare center as Andy goes off to college—earned two Oscars at the…
Continue reading »Documentary Filmmaker Stanley Nelson Presents ‘Freedom Riders’ at CalArts
America in 1961, especially in the deep South, would be almost unrecognizable today. State and local Jim Crow laws—which were enacted between 1876 and 1965—essentially relegated black Americans to second-class…
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