Screenwriter Billy Ray shares his pro tips
at UCLA TFT's 2022 Orientation
Classes have started and Orientation 2022 is in the books! Academy Award nominated screenwriter Billy Ray (The Comey Rule, The Hunger Games) was the special guest speaker during the first day of Orientation on Sept. 20, where he chatted with screenwriting professor George Huang and answered questions from inquiring students. For more about Billy Ray and his work, read his Q&A with TFT.
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Making News
Alumna Adamma Ebo (left) and Adanne Ebo. Credit: Kim Newmoney
Alumnae Ana Lily Amirpour (MFA ’10) and Catherine Hardwicke are directing episodes of the Guillermo del Toro anthology series Cabinet of Curiosities, premiering Oct. 25 on Netflix.
Beauty Queen director Myra Aquino (MFA ’20) was a winner at the Fine Cut Festival of Films. Faith Strongheart (MFA ’18) was a finalist for her film Havana.
Production designer Curt Beech (MFA ’03, Only Murders in the Building) and executive producer Kevin Messick (MFA ’89, Succession) are Primetime Emmy Award winners.
MFA directing student Jahmil Eady was the recipient of the Roger Moore Film Honor at the 2022 Princess Grace Awards.
Ryan Hines (MFA ’19) is the writer-director-producer of Moonshineland, a new horror/true-crime scripted podcast starring Jess Kozak (MFA ’19) and Dave Theune.
Professor Gina Kim received the 2022 Award for Visual Activism from the International Visual Sociology Association for her VR film Tearless. View the virtual exhibition on the IVSA Conference website.
Kyle Laursen (MFA ’12) has been named president of film and television at Justin Simien's production company Culture Machine.
Lecturer Sara Lyons’ new interdisciplinary performance, This Emancipation Thing, was part of the 19th Annual New Original Works Festival at REDCAT in September.
Professor Phyllis Nagy’s feature film Call Jane will be the Spotlight Film at the Hamptons International Film Festival ahead of its Oct. 25 theatrical release. Watch the trailer on YouTube.
Professor Sylvan Oswald's performance text High Winds was performed at the 20th annual Time Based Art Festival in Portland, Ore.
Archive Screening
Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m.
Billy Wilder Theater
Set in the aftermath of the 1975 fall of Saigon, Journey From the Fall weaves together stories of a family separated and struggling for freedom. Director Ham Tran's (MFA ’10) award-winning drama artfully defies common narratives about the Vietnamese experience, examining the role of memory and family in communities, and a country, built out of resilience.
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Remembering
Marina Goldovskaya
Nov. 13, 12:00 p.m.
Hillside Memorial Park
6001 W. Centinela Ave., Culver City
Documentary filmmaker and Professor Emerita Marina Goldovskaya will be remembered on Nov. 13. A gathering at the Smolin home follows.
