School of Film/Video

CalArts has claimed the top spot in Animation Career Review’s 2021 ranking of US animation schools and colleges. Now in its 10th year, Animation Career Review’s annual rankings aims to provide aspiring animation students and their parents ample information about the numerous programs in the...

Co-director of the Experimental Animation Program Maureen Furniss discusses the impact of “Voices” (1985), a short film by fellow CalArtian Joanna Priestley (Film/Video MFA 85), in Cartoon Brew’s latest installment of “The Animation that Changed Me.” Furniss recalls first seeing “Voices”...

CalArts School of Film/Video holds a virtual conference, Approaching the Near Distance, during the Institute’s Wintersession term from Jan. 11 to 22. The sessions are open to the broader CalArts community, including all current students, alums, and prospective students. The...

School of Film/Video faculty Brigette Barrager‘s (Film/Video BFA 07) latest children’s book Welcome Flower Child: The Magic of Your Birth Flower was recently published by Random House Books for Young Readers. Welcome Flower Child, which was written and illustrated by Barrager,...

Last month, the inaugural Black in Animation Awards (BIA) show took place virtually, to honor and celebrate Black artists who have made significant contributions to the animation industry. Co-sponsored by Black Women Animate (BWA Studios) and Cartoon Network Studios, the first-ever awards show...

Storyboard artist Bryan Andrews (Film/Video BFA 93) is set to direct What If…?, the first animated original series from Marvel Studios.  First announced during The Walt Disney Company’s Investor Day presentation on Dec. 10, 2020, What If…? draws its title from Marvel’s comic series of the...

CalArtian and Academy Award-winning director Pete Docter (Film/Video BFA 90) casts Pixar’s signature cinematic flair on some of life’s biggest questions with Soul, the studio’s 23rd animated feature. Praised by Variety as a “whimsical, musical and boldly metaphysical dramedy about what...