School of Film/Video

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.

Filmmaker Eliza Hittman (Film/Video MFA 10) is the recipient of a U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award in Neo-Realism at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival for her narrative feature Never Rarely Sometimes Always.  The film follows Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) and her cousin Skylar (Talia Ryder), two...

Last week (Jan. 26), the CalArts Alumni and Family Engagement team hosted a special screening of the Oscar-nominated animated feature Klaus—the day after director Sergio Pablos’ (Film/Video 92) film swept the Annie Awards.

On Saturday, Jan. 25, the 47th Annual Annie Awards, presented by the International Animated Film Society (ASIFA), were held at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles. As in previous years, CalArtians took home a number of awards, including the marquee Best Animated Feature for the Netflix production...