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Earlier this week, the Sundance Instiute announced the full slate of films scheduled to screen at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Running from Jan. 28-Feb. 3 on digital and hybrid platforms, new independent works by CalArtians were selected across several categories. A still from Searchers...

Downtown Los Angeles-based experimental performance venue Automata has announced its latest edition of artist residencies. The fall/winter 2020-21 residencies feature six resident artists, five of whom are CalArtians: Benni Quintero (Film/Video BFA 20), Ramona Apthorp (Art BFA 19), Susan Simpson...

Co-directors Žanete Skarule (Film/Video MFA 18) and Ojay Morgan won the 2020 Best Alternative Video Newcomer Award at the UK Music Video Awards for their music video “Moor” for Zebra Katz.  The international team shot on location in a 1970’s Soviet villa in Lithuania. In the video, the...

Stop-motion filmmaker and art director Zach Tolchinsky (Film/Video MFA 2020) won My RØDE Reel (MRR) 2020’s first prize in animation for his film The Forbidden Zone.  Tolchinsky was recognized in the competition’s Genre Category, which also included comedy, drama, documentary and behind the...

On Wednesday, Nov. 25 at 4 pm PST, the Twisted Spruce World Music Foundation presents the virtual premiere of the interdisciplinary project Parts, Together, composed by Azariah Felton (Music MFA 21) and set to animation by Chia-Hsin Lee (Film/Video BFA 20).  The work features the talents of...

More than 90 years after Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse (and further developed by animator Ub Iwerks), CalArts alum Paul Rudish (Film/Video BFA 91) brings the classic character to a whole new audience. Rudish is the executive producer of the new shorts series, The Wonderful World of...