Monday, June 23


Documentary-style podcast explores creative process behind horror comedy ‘Scare Me’

The first season of MCS Media’s recent podcast explores one director’s quest to make a cool movie. Completing its first season with Tuesday’s episode, MCS Media’s documentary-style podcast “Make Cool Sh!t” focuses on director Josh Ruben’s filmmaking journey of his horror-comedy feature, “Scare Me.” Donny Dykowsky said he and the podcast series’s other co-founder Mike Bulger originally set out to tell the stories of artists executing their different creative processes. Read more...

Photo: (Left to right: Courtesy of Jackie Russo, Christopher Lane & Coco Jourdana)


Brown Bag lecture explores themes of inclusivity, identity in Alice Notley’s poems

By embodying multiple voices in her poetry, Alice Notley takes inclusivity to the max. On Friday, the Center for the Study of Women virtually hosted Elline Lipkin’s talk, “Resist, Reframe, Insist: Alice Notley’s Poetics of Inclusion.” Based on her research for an article in “Northern American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Beyond Lyric and Language,” Lipkin covered the elements and themes of Notley’s work. Read more...

Photo: This year’s Brown Bag lecture series, hosted by the Center for the Study of Women, ended Friday with Elline Lipkin’s talk, “Resist, Reframe, Insist: Alice Notley’s Poetics of Inclusion.” (Esther Li/Daily Bruin staff)





Alumna’s film ‘The Mole Agent’ provides heartfelt look at living in a nursing home

Loneliness is a daunting feeling, and “The Mole Agent” perfectly depicts the emotions it comes with all inside a gloomy nursing home. The latest documentary produced by UCLA alumna Marcela Santibañez features an elder private investigator, Sergio Chamy, exploring the living conditions of a nursing home resident – but it soon reconfigures into a film that gives heartfelt insight into life at a small yet tightly knit home in Chile. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of Micromundo Producciones)