Entertainment Impact
The UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television (www.tft.ucla.edu) brings together students with faculty who include some of the most gifted creative personalities in entertainment: film directors, screenwriters, theatrical producers, television executives. With a location in the creative center of the world, UCLA is shaping entertainment that touches us all.
• TFT’s undergraduate theater and film/television programs are ranked first out of 500 programs nationally (Princeton Review/Gourman Report)
• UCLA bridges entertainment with community through events and productions that bring our creativity right to the audience: performance programs by the Latino Theater Company in downtown Los Angeles; ArtsBridge, which energizes K-12 curriculum in LA Unified with theater techniques for young people; public programs produced by the Geffen Playhouse, the Department of Theater; and film series and retrospectives shown at the Billy Wilder Theater, the new home of the UCLA Film and Television Archive in the heart of Westwood Village.
Robbins’ Award
Actor and writer Tim Robbins is so appreciative of his experience at TFT that he has created the Tim Robbins Playwright Award in which he personally recognizes and celebrates gifted UCLA student playwrights. <more> (PDF)
Writing for the Screen
As Director of the UCLA Screenwriting Program in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, Richard Walter can’t believe he gets paid to teach some of the most talented students in the world. <more>
Bruin Box Office
The past year has shown that filmmakers trained at UCLA are setting new trends for film success — with critics and fans, and at the box office. <more>
The Film Files
It’s a treasure trove of the moving image. With more than 220,000 motion picture and television titles and 27 million feet of newsreel footage, the UCLA Film and Television Archive is a pioneer in preservation and presentation of video and film both past and present. <more>
Innovation, risk-taking and re-invention — the creative brew that is an education in theater, film and television at UCLA. Graduates of UCLA’s programs are leading the current wave of visual expression, and the university is training the next generation of leaders in fields across the spectrum of entertainment.
Funny Girl
Originally here to study journalism, comic legend Carol Burnett, a pioneer in the genre of sketch comedy, learned the beauty of making people laugh at UCLA. <more>
Not Your Average Cartoon
Working with state-of-the-art technology in the new Walter Lantz Digital Animation Studio, in the name of the famous animator who created such characters as Woody Woodpecker, has allowed many UCLA students to go on to be leaders in the field of animation. <more>
TV Land
Realizing the value of one of the most important mediums of communication in our history, the School of Theater, Film and Television was one of the first in the U.S. to establish academic programs in TV production. Read more about how they continue to apply the most up-to-date technology to what has always been the School’s core mission, telling stories. <more> (PDF)
Cross-Pollination
A pioneer in arts education, UCLA is the only university that combines theatre, film and digital media into a holistic learning experience that trains students to build creativity through versatility. <more>
The Producers
Where will the next movie moguls come from? The Producers Program is training a new generation of film pioneers with a faculty of internationally recognized captains in the film and television industry — from producers and agents to lawyers and executives. <more>
Lights, Camera, Action!
Dorothy Arzner, a faculty member at UCLA from 1959 to 1963 and an inspiration to women in entertainment, is still the woman with the longest film-directing career and the most directorial credits (16 films) in Hollywood history. <more>
