School of Film/Video

CalArts Character Animation student Kim McMahon took to drawing and illustrating—focusing on some of the positives she found in physical distance.

Adapting to the current health crisis, the 58th Ann Arbor Film Festival screened as a free, live-streamed six-day event from Tuesday, March 24 to Sunday, March 29. This online version of North America’s longest-running avant-garde and experimental film fest recognized three School of...

Writer-director Eliza Hittman’s (Film/Video MFA 10) third feature Never Rarely Sometimes Always, a poignant drama about two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania who seek help for an unintended pregnancy, is being rereleased on Friday (April 3). The film had opened in select theaters on March...

While our travel and activities are restricted amid the coronavirus crisis, there are still plenty of ways to let our minds and imaginations roam free. To help you discover new sources of inspiration, we’ve put together a small selection of films and TV shows that were made by or feature...

Author, illustrator, and filmmaker Vashti Harrison (Film/Video MFA 14) has been named the recipient of the 2020 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Children for her work on Lupita Nyong’o’s book Sulwe. Harrison was twice nominated in the category for her illustrations in Sulwe...

On Tuesday, Feb. 18, Film Independent announced its 2020 Screenwriting Lab Fellows. The emerging screenwriters selected for the Lab is CalArts alum Kate Marks (Film/Video MFA 12), along with Mitali Jahagirdar, Joy Goodwin, Nicholas Ma, Victoria Rivera, Ben Gross, and Tiffanie Hsu.  Over the...

Other winners included Ford v Ferrari, directed by CalArts alumnus James Mangold, and Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 4.