YouTube’s top creators are expanding the small screen – let’s talk about that. Saturday, industry organization BrandStorytelling hosted its inaugural Creator Day, a sanctioned event of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival as part of its 11-day run in Park City, Utah. Read more...
Photo: Antonia Blyth moderates a panel with Sean Evans, Link Neal and Rhett McLaughlin. The discussion was part of BrandStorytelling’s inaugural Creator Day. (left to right) (Zimo Li/Photo editor)
This post was updated Jan. 30 at 10:15 p.m. Amy Kuney is a supernova of her own. The artist and lecturer at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music is a co-writer on Chappell Roan’s “Red Wine Supernova,” a track off her 2023 debut “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.” Roan’s album is up for two Grammy Awards this Sunday – Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album – with Roan also clinching a Best New Artist nomination. Read more...
Photo: Amy Kuney looks at the camera while wearing a black suit and sitting in a chair against a white curtain holding an orange tabby cat in her lap. Kuney is a songwriting lecturer at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music who co-wrote Chappell Roan’s “Red Wine Supernova,” a track off Roan’s Grammy-nominated album “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.” (Courtesy of Alexandra Petruck)
Weaving absurdism and romance, “Atropia” interrogates the Western perspective of the Middle East. Directed by Hailey Gates, the war satire film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Read more...
Photo: Callum Turner, cast member in “Atropia” dons a brown and beige checkered cardigan and speaks into the microphone. “Atropia” premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. (Zimo Li/Photo editor)
This post was updated Feb. 10 at 12:34 a.m. With much-needed rainstorms coming to Los Angeles, there is no better place to take shelter from the precipitation than in an art gallery. Read more...
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This post was updated Feb. 2 at 8:09 p.m. There is nothing fluffy about Bryn Chainey’s feature film debut. Distributed by horror production company SpectreVision, “Rabbit Trap” premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival as part of the Midnight category. Read more...
Photo: “Rabbit Trap” star Jade Croot smiles and looks past the camera while walking through a crowd of people at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. (Zimo Li/Photo editor)
This post was updated Jan. 30 at 10:09 p.m. Two UCLA faculty members are reveling in the recognition of a colleague’s Grammy-nominated work. Catherine Gregory, a flutist and lecturer at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, and David Kaplan, a pianist and professor at the School of Music, are both members of the chamber music collective Decoda, which includes more than 30 musicians from around the country who work together on various concerts and songwriting projects. Read more...
Photo: Members of the chamber music collective Decoda play together at the Tippet Rise Art Center in Fishtail, Montana while recording their eponymous 2024 album. The LP feature “Revelry” by Valerie Coleman has been nominated for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. (Courtesy of Kevin Kinzley Photography and the Tippet Rise Art Center)
This post was updated Feb. 4 at 9:14 p.m. Through poetry, Ariv Gupta shows how being your true self is the key to connection. The third-year computer science student independently published his first book, “what’s real: poetry for everyone,” on Oct. Read more...
Photo: Ariv Gupta holds a copy of his poetry book, “what’s real: poetry for everyone” behind a door. The third-year computer science student published the book in October. (Courtesy of Ariv Gupta)
