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The UCLA Film and Television Archive will be closing out its series, “Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema,” with the screening of “California Indian” on Monday, Dec. 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum.

Filmmaker Mandy Walker has been named 2014 Kodak Cinematographer-in-Residence at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Lucretia Stinnette, a graduate student filmmaker in the School of Theater, Film and Television, made a short film about a mail-order bride from Vietnam after teaching English in South Korea to such women.

The center is the first of its kind, dedicated solely to advancing the power of entertainment and performing arts to inspire social change.

UCLA's Confucius Institute will present the second China Oncreen Biennial from Oct. 17 to Nov. 14 at the UCLA Film and Television Archive's Billy Wilder Theater and other L.A. venues.

Outreach around the study includes a Twitter campaign seeking thoughts on the importance of diversity on TV and in film.

In his latest documentary, “Bitter Honey,” UCLA anthropologist Robert Lemelson tracks the abuses suffered by wives trapped in polygamous marriages.

'The Dark Mirror' (1946) and 'Jealousy' (1945) screen on Friday, Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m. at the Billy Wilder Theater, as part of the UCLA Film and Television Archive’s 'Exile Noir' series.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block welcomed approximately 900 people to Royce Hall Tuesday night for the Los Angeles premiere of “Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football.”

Directing graduate student Mark Columbus' short coming-of-age film will screen at the 41st annual Telluride Film Festival.

UCLA public policy alumna Snejana Daily spent a year traveling the world to tell the stories of people facing challenges across the globe in a 10-part series currently airing on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Her commitment to nonprofit work was strengthened after she suffered the loss of her husband in Iraq.

A documentary about the 2011 UCLA quidditch team's bid for the sport's world cup started as a five-minute film class project. "Mudbloods” will open in select theaters this fall.

UCLA’s Film and Television Archive will be hosting a Hollywood hero on July 25: Norma Barzman, a screenwriter who fled to France when she was blacklisted during the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s.

Students at UCLA create interactive stories using Google Glass that show how wearable technology could alter the idea of narrative.

The new Film Independent Humanitarian Award recognizes an individual in the world of film and TV whose work has demonstrated a deep commitment to humanitarian causes. Turner will receive the award June 12.

Check out this video about UCLA's collection of the pioneering work of silent film-era animators.

UCLA professor emeritus Howard Suber has played a pivotal role in the creation of key programs in UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, including the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Producer's Program, which has helped launched many a Hollywood career.

Deborah Nadoolman Landis has created a popular exhibition that illuminates the costume designer’s creative process as well as celebrates and explores costume design as a key component of cinema storytelling.

As the movie studios go digital, the UCLA Film and Television Archive and Arts Library remind people of the important role film has played in movie-making.

Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, project director with the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education where he teaches classes in labor studies, talks about the first biopic to feature iconic Chicano labor leader Cesar Chavez.

In an interview, UCLA Physics Professor David Saltzberg shares what it’s like working as thescience consultant on the hit CBS sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.”

The fifth installment of the annual conference will be held at UCLA on April 4 and will feature panelists from industry and academia discussing the forces shaping TV production and consumption in the 21st century.

For the Academy Award-winning animated film "Frozen," two UCLA mathematicians joined a team of Disney software engineers to develop an algorithm based on the material point method to create simulations of how snow behaves under various conditions.

When it comes to influential positions in the industry, minorities and women are represented at rates far below what would be expected given their percentage of the general population, according to a new UCLA study.

Two UCLA sociologists reveal the logic behind the tough gambles movie studios make — and the financial results of success or failure at the box office.