Film And Television (audio)

UCSB Script to Screen hosts director Jay Roach (Austin Powers trilogy) and screenwriter John McNamara for a conversations about Trumbo, a historical piece about a blacklisted screen writer and the screen writing process. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30277]

Oscar-winning screenwriter Alan Ball, veteran writer/producer, whose credits include Six Feet Under and True Blood, joins host Matt Ryan to discuss the production and legacy of “American Beauty.” Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30159]

Up&Coming Wired is a quarterly online “theater” curated by UCSD students for the UCSD community and beyond. This online film festival is a division of the ArtPower annual Up&Coming Student Film Festival/Filmatic. Our goal is to encourage and support all UCSD students from any discipline by providing a universally accessible forum to showcase video/film work and receive feedback from the campus and global community. Series: "Up&Coming Wired" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29916]

Patrick Sanan, who studied mathematics at UC San Diego, explains how he combined geometry and physics to devise the mathematics that made possible the visualization of the virtual tiger Richard in the Oscar award-winning motion picture, “Life of Pi.” Series: "STEAM: Adding Arts to STEM Education" [Humanities] [Science] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 25933]

UCSB’s Script to Screen visits Comic Con 2015 in San Diego. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30030]

Writer-director Scott Frank, talks to UCSB students about getting the crime drama "A Walk Among the Tombstones" made. Frank’s other screenplays include Little Man Tate, Dead Again, Malice, Heaven’s Prisoners, Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Minority Report, The Interpreter and Marley & Me. Frank graduated from UCSB in 1982 with a BA in Film Studies. Since then he has written movies for filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg, Sidney Pollack, Steven Soderbergh, Barry Sonnenfeld, Jodie Foster and Kenneth Brannagh. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29842]

Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner, set in a dystopian city-world of the future, presented extreme cinematographic challenges. UCSB Film and Media Studies faculty members Ross Melnick and Anna Brusutti discuss the making of the film and why it resonates so many years after its original release. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29844]

1941 screenwriter Bob Gale (who also wrote the Back to the Future Trilogy), actor Perry Lang, 2nd Assistant Director Chris Soldo, assistant casting director Stanzi Stokes, and score restorer Michael Matessino look at this 1979 Steven Spielberg farce. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29845]

Executive Producer/Director Jack Bender unlocks the production secrets of translating Lost from script to screen. And, he might just provide some clues to unlock the secrets of "The Island." Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29742]

Filmmaker Allison Anders discusses her career in film and television, specifically Orange is the New Black Episode 6 from Season 2 (You Also Have a Pizza), which she directed. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29745]

Q&A with the director and one of the participants of the 2014 documentary, Occupy the Farm. The film documents the plight of 200 urban farmers as they occupy a publicly owned research farm and plant it with two acres of crops in order to save the land from becoming a real-estate development. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 29744]

The Neo Noir series examines different aspects of the film noir style. The films showcase the "soul of the city," interpreting the Los Angeles of the past, present, and future. In “Collateral”, director Michael Mann brings noir to a modern-day Los Angeles. Screenwriter Stuart Beattie talks with Anna Brusutti, Film and Media Studies Lecturer at UCSB, and the audience about his writing process. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29741]

Director Julia Marchese discusses her documentary exploring the importance of revival cinema and 35mm exhibition as seen through the lens of the patrons of the New Beverly Cinema. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29625]

Director Louis Psihoyos and co-producer Gina Papabeis discuss the film Racing Extinction which shows shows an unlikely team of activists and innovators who hatch a bold mission to save endangered species. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29624]

Executive producer and co-writer of Journey of the Universe Mary Evelyn Tucker discusses the evolution of her book and the film that explores the nature of the universe. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29623]

Steven Salaita (former Associate Professor of English at Virginia Tech) and Sherene Seikaly (UCSB Assistant Professor in History) discuss writer-director Elia Suleiman’s The Time That Remains. Winner of the Jury Grand Prize at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and nominated for a Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the film is an intimate semi-biographical portrait of Palestinians living as a minority in their own homeland between 1948 and the present day. Inspired by his father’s diaries, letters his mother sent to family members who had fled the Israeli occupation, and the director’s own recollections, the film recounts the saga of the filmmaker’s family in subtly hilarious vignettes. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 29622]

Producer Rick Rosenthal and Associate Director of LBGT Services in the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity at UCSB Klint Jaramillo explore Transparent, a film that chronicles the lives of a Los Angeles family after they discover that their father, Mort (Jeffrey Tambor), is transgender. An original series produced by Amazon Studios, Transparent won the 2015 Golden Globe for best TV series, musical or comedy, and Tambor took home a trophy for best actor. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29626]

Discussion with My Love Awaits Me by the Sea director Mais Darwazah and Nuha N.N. Khoury, UCSB Associate Professor in the History of Art and Architecture. My Love Awaits Me by the Sea is a poetic meditation on what it means to be denied the chance to participate in a collective memory of normal life. Accompanied by Hasan, her imaginary lover, Darwazah (a second generation Palestinian) returns for the first time to her home in Palestine, and finds the remnants of hope in a land exhausted by endless years of war. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 29621]

Producer/Director Charlie Soap and Producer Kristina Kiehl discuss the film inspired by the true story of the struggle for, opposition to, and ultimate success of a rural Cherokee community to bring running water to their families by using the traditional concept of "gadugi," working together to solve a problem. Sonny Skyhawk moderates the conversations. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29144]

Writer/director Damien Chazelle discusses the process of creating his Academy Award film, Whiplash. Chazelle’s sophomore film tells the story of a promising young drummer and his ruthless teacher. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29315]