Zehao Xue’s “Currency Affairs” clocks in at 3 minutes 52 seconds. But the time Xue spent working on the award-winning film went beyond what he said to be the usual timeline for student projects. Read more...
Photo: Graduate film student Zehao Xue’s animated film “Currency Affairs,” a story about two separated dollar bills, took home the award for Best in Show at the Shorttakes Student Film Festival on May 21. (Courtesy of Zehao Xue)
Elderly Edna Katz sits in her nursing home, bored and watching television, when she is shocked to her feet by an advertisement to save homeless cats. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student Ben Haist’s five-minute long animated film “Cat Lady” won first place in the animation category at the Shorttakes Student Film Festival on May 21. (Conor Cusack/Daily Bruin)
Warner Bros. Television officials announced on Wednesday “The Big Bang Theory” Scholarship Endowment, a fund to provide need-based financial aid for UCLA science, technology, engineering and mathematics students. Read more...
Photo: “The Big Bang Theory” Scholarship Endowment was funded by cast, crew and executive producers of “The Big Theory,” Chuck Lorre Family Foundation and other donors from the entertainment industry. (Warner Bros. Television)
As three Korean guys drive towards the beach, one leans out of the window with a look of childish excitement across his face. In the short film “Banana Trip,” the trio set out to try and impress some American girls while on holiday in Florida. Read more...
Photo: “Banana Trip,” written and directed by Florida State University student Hyungjik Lee, won best comedy on Thursday at the Campus Events Commission’s Shorttakes Student Film Festival. (Courtesy of Hyungjik Lee)
For Daniela Arguello, inspiration for her short film “Time” came from an unexpected place. “It was just as if a brick fell from the sky and hit me in the head, and I was like ‘Wow, I want to do this,'” said Arguello, a first-year film student. Read more...
Photo: First-year film student Daniela Arguello wrote and directed the eight-minute science fiction film, “Time,” which won Best Drama at the Shorttakes Student Film Festival. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)
Still Slatousky had a mysterious spot on his arm. In the short film “Still and the Spot,” Slatousky becomes progressively more distressed, visiting doctor after doctor trying to figure out where the spot came from and how to get rid of it. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Avi Glick)
One of the most clever scenes in Disney’s heavily theatrical, big-budget “Tomorrowland” takes place in a bland-looking high school. As the scene jumps from classroom to classroom, teacher after teacher lecture about resource depletion, unending wars and the overall futile fate of humanity. Read more...
Photo: (Walt Disney Studios)
