April 18 and 19:
Join the UCLA Film & Television Archive and its community partner, the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, for a free preview screening of the Sundance award-winning film Framing Agnes (2022), which explores the legacy of a pioneering trans woman who participated in gender health research at UCLA in the 1960s. Conversation with filmmaker Chase Joynt, historian Jules Gill-Peterson, sociologist Kristen Schilt and UCLA Ph.D. student Vanessa Warri on trans history, representation and research. RSVP
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Faculty Voices
Voice-over narrator Scott Brickwrites about his interest in the career of silent film actress Asta Nielsen, a woman ahead of her time, who was the first female to play Hamlet on film.
Lighting designer Amanda Zieveshines a light on the pioneering female lighting designers who have paved the way for today's lighting designers, a minority in a male-dominated field.
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In the News
Awards Season Roundup: From the Annies to the Oscars, check out the nominations and wins members of the TFT community garnered this awards season.
Professor Michelle Liu Carriger discussed the significance of the Japanese kimono on KTLA during the reopening of the historic Shoseian Teahouse in Glendale.
Rishi Chitkara (MFA ’17), has been promoted to story editor for the second season of the CBS comedy Ghosts.
Katrina Frederick (BA ’10)directed an episode of PBS SoCal's Emmy-winning documentary series The Migrant Kitchen.
The Nina Menkes (MFA ’89) retrospectiveCinema is Sorcery: The Films of Nina Menkes, took place March 4-10 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The Searchlight comedy-thriller Fresh, produced by Kevin Messick (BA, MFA ’89), premiered March 4 on Hulu.
John Rando (MFA ’88) directs Billy Crystal in the new Broadway musical Mr. Saturday Night, opening on April 27.
Beatrice Springborn (MFA ’05) has been named president of Universal Studio Group and Universal International Studios.
In recognition of International Women's Day in March, the UCLA International Institute profiled graduate student Veronica Zavala, who is originally from Mexico.
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Around Campus
Hammer Museum Doc and Exhibition: Ulysses Jenkins
Watch Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation, a new documentary short about Ulysses Jenkins, a pivotal influence on contemporary art of the last 50 years. The film follows Jenkins’s start as a painter and muralist and his evolution into a seminal video artist with landmark works such as Mass of Images and Two-Zone Transfer. Jenkins is currently the subject of a
critically acclaimed exhibition at the Hammer Museum, through May 15.
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In Memoriam
Marina Goldovskaya
Professor Emerita Marina Goldovskaya, 80, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and cinematographer whose films captured the decline of the Soviet Union and who taught at UCLA TFT from 1994-2014, died March 20 after a long illness at her son's home in Jurmala, Latvia.
Sheila Benson, 91, the Los Angeles Times’ chief film critic from 1981-1991, passed away on Feb. 23 in Seattle. She attended UCLA alongside classmates Carol Burnett and James Dean.
