TFT at UCLA

CALLING ALL TFT ALUMNI! Were you part of a #GoldenGlobes nominated project? Congratulations! Share your nomination news with us at UCLA so we can celebrate you! Email communications@tft.ucla.edu with your name, your graduation year and the nomination details.

To our students, our faculty, our staff, our alumni and our community - THANK YOU for the passion, creativity and inspiration you bring to UCLA Theater, Film and Television! It's because of you that we are one of the TOP theater and film schools in the nation. 💙💛

OPENING TONIGHT: The Courage to Right a Woman's Wrongs is a story of revenge, women's empowerment and adventure with themes that still resonate today. More @DailyBruin - and come see a performance in Macgowan Hall, now through Nov. 26! ow.ly/uTiG50Uciv8

“‘Glicked’ may not be ‘Barbenheimer,’ but as Thanksgiving approaches, their combined strength is certainly something for which we can all be grateful — a good, old-fashioned, holiday weekend cinema extravaganza." -Prof. Tom Nunan for @nytimes. More: ow.ly/fC3B50Ubipu 🪄⚔️

UCLA Theater Chair Michelle Liu Carriger has won the @ASTRtweets Barnard Hewitt Award for her book Theatricality of the Closet: Fashion, Performance, and Subjectivity Between Victorian Britain and Meiji Japan. Congrats, Prof. Carriger! #TFTShines 🌟 More: ow.ly/Kuqi50U9Byr

Hi Mom, Hi Dad! 💙💛 TFT welcomed families this afternoon for #BruinFamilyWeekend. Film and theater students gathered with their family members to hear from Garrick & Sheila Francis, parents of theater student Karis Francis, as well as Theater Chair Michelle Liu Carriger.

As a public state University #UCLA provides a world class education that is affordable. Proud MFA grad in screenwriting.

#HumbleBrag: @TheWrap has named UCLA as one of the top film schools in the nation! Coming in at #5, UCLA TFT is the only public university to make the top five and stands alongside a number of high-powered filmmaking institutions. See the full list: ow.ly/ZSYH50TZWNp

Catch up with TFT alum David Lebrun ('67) at the Hammer Museum, Nov 23 + 24! LeBrun's multidisciplinary film practice encompasses animation, documentary and experimental techniques to explore different ways of seeing and being in the world. More: ow.ly/OY9650TMfN6

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television is proud to say our faculty span many areas of expertise - including K-pop! See Department of Theater professor Suk-Young Kim's take on K-pop as performance in The New Yorker: newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

We’re saddened to share that Robert Rosen, our founding director and former @UCLA_TFT dean, passed away. An educator, preservationist and historian, he was profoundly instrumental in growing the Archive into the largest university-based repository of original film & TV materials.

Bruins are so BACK 🤩 Incoming and returning students, as well as faculty and staff, gathered for the Dean’s Welcome today to kick off the year! Alumna Ali Fumiko Whitney also joined to pass on a few words of UCLA wisdom. It’s going to be a great year - let’s do this!

YOU'RE INVITED! Attend the UCLA Animation Workshop 75th Anniversary celebration and screening on Oct. 5, 2024 at 6:30p in the James Bridges Theater. All proceeds will benefit the Dan McLaughlin Animation Fellowship Fund. Tickets: ow.ly/wgY850Tn5qG

REMINDER: The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television is closed today, September 2, in observance of #LaborDay. Offices will reopen for regular business hours tomorrow, September 3.

SAVE THE DATE: Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the UCLA Animation Workshop on October 5! Attend the premiere screening and reception at 6:30p at the UCLA James Bridges Theater. Tickets available soon!

NICE TO SEE YOU! On Thursday, TFT alumni gathered at The Edmon in Hollywood to reconnect, network and catch up with fellow Bruins. Cheers to old memories and new friends - and a special shout out to Chris Janney (MA, 2021) for coordinating the event.

Abigail Alonso, an animation grad student, is breaking new ground with short film "The Corn Husk Doll." Recently featured at @Comic_Con, she's using animation to amplify Native American voices. More @DailyBruin: ow.ly/LlHh50T1FHA #TFTShines

Get to know our new professor! Juan Pablo González is a Guggenheim Fellow and filmmaker who is set to join the UCLA Film dept. this fall. See his work highlighting the rhythms, rituals and richness of life in rural Mexico featured on @criterionchannl : ow.ly/7eA750SQnkO

CONGRATS! Ph.D. student Suryansu Guha received the 2nd place Student Writing Award from @SCMStudies! Suryansu was awarded this honor for "'Keeping the Head and Outsourcing the Hands': India and the 'Back-end Hub' of the Global Visual Effects Animation Industry." #TFTShines

With a large network of award-winning alumni and faculty, the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television prepares students to be the next generation of storytellers. Learn more: tft.ucla.edu @UCLA_TFT #ucla