School of Film/Video

Director and writer Kate Marks (Film/Video MFA 12) has been named one of five winners of the 2020 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition for her feature script The Cow of Queens.  The Academy Nicholl Fellowship is annually awarded to five amateur screenwriters. Recipients...

The annual spotlight on 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine was recently released, and CalArtians Joie Estrella Horwitz (Film/Video MFA 21) and Rajee Samarasinghe (Film/Video MFA 16) are included on the 2020 list.  Horwitz is completing her CalArts thesis film Tender...

Filmmaker and former School of Critical Studies visiting faculty member Travis Wilkerson (Film/Video MFA 01) was recently named in The New Yorker’s list of 62 influential documentaries for his film Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (2017). Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?...

While the physical space of The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco remains temporarily closed, the museum continues to offer a number of virtual events, talks, educational workshops, and exhibitions online. On Tuesday, Oct. 27, children and families are welcome to attend a virtual...

Netflix recently announced that CalArtian Shannon Tindle (Film/Video 99) is adapting the William Joyce children’s book Ollie’s Odyssey into a live action television series Lost Ollie. The story follows a special toy named Ollie, who sets out on an adventure across the countryside in search of...

CalArtians Tiffany Ford (Film/Video 10) and Brittany Myers (Film/Video 16) were named among the honorees of Variety’s sixth annual “10 Animators to Watch” list, the publication’s annual spotlight on noteworthy talent in the animation industry. Jorge Gutiérrez (Film/Video MFA 00) will also...

Writer and producer Francesca Sloane (Film/Video MFA 11) recently signed an exclusive deal with Amazon Studios. Deadline reports that Sloane’s first project will be a series based on the works of Anaïs Nin, the French-Cuban American diarist, and writer of short stories and erotica.  Sloane...