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In-Person and Virtual SCA Graduate Information Session
July 1, 2025 - December 24, 2025, Varies
SCA Courtyard and Online
Join the SCA Admissions staff for an in-person or an online information session to learn more about applying to the SCA graduate programs for the Fall 2025 semester. Topics will include an overview of the school, programs and facilities, financial aid, Q&A with staff and more!
2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA
October 27, 2025, 2:00 P.M.
The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
From the Oscar®-winning team behind 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL, 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA documents the toll of the Russia-Ukraine war from a personal and devastating vantage point. Following his historic account of the civilian toll in Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov turns his lens towards Ukrainian soldiers — who they are, where they came from, and the impossible decisions they face in the trenches as they fight for every inch of their land.
PLAINCLOTHES
October 27, 2025, 7:00 P.M.
Norris Cinema Theatre at the Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Syracuse, 1997. Promising undercover police officer Lucas (Tom Blyth) is dealing with a breakup and the recent loss of his father. When he receives an assignment to lure and arrest gay men in a mall bathroom, he is surprised to discover a scintillating connection with Andrew (Russell Tovey), one of his targets. As their secret connection deepens and internal pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, Lucas finds himself torn between duty and desire. At his mother’s New Year’s Eve party, Lucas loses a letter no one was ever meant to read. With time running out and his secret life closing in around him, the evening builds towards an explosive reckoning where everything he’s buried threatens to erupt.
AGFA Movie Hooky Club IMAX Matinee Screening: PHENOMENA (1985)
October 28, 2025, 3:00 P.M.
The Michelle and Kevin Douglas IMAX Theatre, RZC 119, Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts, 3131 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Dario Argento changed the course of horror history with movies like DEEP RED and SUSPIRIA. But his greatest achievement was deciding to pit Jennifer Connelly (LABYRINTH), Donald Pleasence (HALLOWEEN), and a cute monkey against a horde of killer insects. With a little bit of CARRIE, a touch of Nancy Drew, and a whole lot of black-gloved giallo mayhem, PHENOMENA is Argento’s finest entry in the coked-out, anything-goes sweepstakes of 1980s horror. From the shocking violence to the songs by Iron Maiden, this movie was made to be watched by a theater full of appreciative maniacs.
SCA Virtual Graduate Financial Aid Session
October 28, 2025, 5:00 PM Pacific Standard Time
Online - Access Information Sent Via Email
The Virtual Financial Aid Session will provide information about financing your USC education, the financial aid process at USC and scholarship opportunities provided to School of Cinematic Arts graduate students.
Game Changers: Athletes as Creators and Storytellers
October 28, 2025, 6:00 PM
Online - Zoom Access Sent Via Email
Presented by the USC School of Cinematic Arts Office of External Relations and the SCA Network, this virtual panel brings together Trojan creatives from the USC School of Cinematic Arts for a dynamic conversation on the evolving role of athletes in media. Explore how they’re using their platforms to shape narratives, share authentic stories, and inspire the next generation, blending competitive drive with creative vision to redefine cultural influence.
MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE
October 28, 2025, 7:00 P.M.
Norris Cinema Theatre at the Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90007
In 1987, at the age of just 21, Marlee Matlin shattered expectations as the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award® for her groundbreaking performance in Children of a Lesser God. Catapulted into the spotlight, she seized the moment to challenge an industry unprepared for her immense talent, emerging as a trailblazer not only as a performer but also as an author and activist. Matlin's incredible journey continued with standout roles in acclaimed projects such as The West Wing and the Oscar®-winning CODA, all while relentlessly advocating for greater inclusion and accessibility both within Hollywood and beyond its borders.
SPEAK.
October 29, 2025, 7:00 P.M.
The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Speak. follows five bold young voices on a high-stakes quest to win the Super Bowl of public speaking. Against a backdrop of social and political turmoil, these teens rise with fire, wit, and unshakable humanity—delivering a masterclass in courage, conviction, and the kind of hope that refuses to be silenced.
LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS
October 29, 2025, 3:00 P.M.
The Michelle and Kevin Douglas IMAX Theatre, RZC 119, Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts, 3131 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Daughter to the flamboyant lesbian Queens of Planet Clitopolis, introverted Princess Saira is devastated when her bounty-hunter girlfriend, Kiki, suddenly breaks up with her for being too needy. After Kiki is kidnapped by forgotten incels of the future, the Straight White Maliens, Saira must leave the comforts of gay space to deliver their ransom: her royal labrys (the most powerful weapon known to lesbian kind). Only problem is… she doesn’t have it! With just a 24-hour window to get her labrys and save Kiki, Princess Saira finds herself on an inter-gay-lactic journey of self-discovery that includes encounters with a problematic spaceship and a new-found friendship with gay-pop runaway Willow.
LOVE ME TENDER
October 30, 2025, 2:30 P.M.
SCI 106, IMGD Building, 3470 McClintock Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90089
Divorced and literally glowing in her new-found sexual freedom, Clémence is ebullient as she leaves a Paris swimming pool to meet her happy-go-lucky ex, Laurent, to make an announcement: she’s now into women. But Laurent is not as laid-back as he seems and quickly turns the tables on her and their hitherto amicable joint custody agreement. Vicky Krieps turns in another luminous, powerhouse performance in Anna Cazenave Cambet‘s adaptation of Constance Debré’s autobiographical novel, plunging us into the complex moral dilemmas implicit in society’s searing either/or notions of motherhood vs. self-fulfillment.
BILLY KNIGHT
October 30, 2025, 7:00 P.M.
The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
After losing his father, Alex sets out on a Hollywood adventure to uncover the identity of the mysterious and reclusive “Billy Knight,” guided only by a box of unfinished scripts and a handkerchief embroidered with his name.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA: 100th Anniversary Screening
November 2, 2025, 5:00 P.M.
The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
A forerunner of the American horror film, and one of the most lavish productions of the silent cinema, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA has inspired countless remakes and imitations. But none of its successors can rival the mesmerizing blend of romance and mystery that haunts every frame of the Lon Chaney original.
Aspiring young opera singer Christine Daaé (Mary Philbin) discovers that she has a mysterious admirer intent on helping her become a lead performer. This enigmatic masked presence is Erik (screen legend Lon Chaney), also known as the Phantom, a horribly disfigured recluse who lives underneath the Paris Opera House. When the Phantom takes Christine prisoner and demands her devotion and affection, her suitor, Vicomte Raoul de Chagny (Norman Kerry), sets out to rescue her.
THE EYES OF GHANA
November 3, 2025 - November 4, 2025, 7:00 P.M.
Norris Cinema Theatre at the Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90007
From Oscar®-winning director Ben Proudfoot, The Eyes of Ghana is a stunning feature documentary following 93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse--personal cinematographer to forgotten African icon Kwame Nkrumah--as he races against blindness and time to rescue and repatriate a secret trove of over 1,300 films that captured the birth of African independence in the fifties and sixties. Yet unseen by the public, these films may not only rewrite Ghanaian and African histor --but world history itself.
PINCH
November 4, 2025, 7:00 P.M.
Norris Cinema Theatre at the Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Maitri, an aspiring travel blogger who shares a home with her mother in their Indian apartment block, is stuck. She is struggling to find an audience for her travel-centric YouTube channel, her mother disapproves of her career path, and she’s still working through unresolved grief after the loss of her father. Thinking it will make good content, Maitri tags along with her mother and their neighbors, trusted landlord Rajesh and his wife, to a temple during the Navratri festival. When Maitri is groped by Rajesh on the way to the festival, she feels shocked, furious and lonely and impulsively decides to take retributive steps, setting off a chain of events that rocks her tight-knight community.
Virtual SCA Undergraduate Open House
November 5, 2025, 4:00 P.M. PT
Zoom (Link Sent Morning of Event)
This is a comprehensive virtual event for prospective undergraduate applicants to the USC School of Cinematic Arts. The Virtual SCA Undergraduate Open House will include an admissions presentation and divisional breakout sessions with SCA staff and faculty. You will be able to ask questions you may have about SCA majors and the application process.
OUT/FORM: Creativity & AI Summit
November 5, 2025, All Day
The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Join us for OUT/FORM: Creativity & AI Summit — a one-day experience of panels, workshops, and networking with creative leaders and innovators shaping the future of film, architecture, design, and storytelling. Co-created by the Onor Foundation, the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and the USC School of Architecture, OUT/FORM brings together artists and industry partners from New Balance, Adobe, Spotify, Freepik, Luma AI, Naya.Studio, Asteria Films, Motif, and more to explore how AI is transforming the creative industries.
IMGD Information Session + Q & A
November 7, 2025, 6:00 PM PT
Zoom Webinar
Join our Interactive Media and Games faculty and staff virtually, for the opportunity to get strategies on how best to present your portfolio. This event is for prospective undergraduate and graduate students to our Interactive Media & Games programs only.
SERIOUS PEOPLE
November 11, 2025, 3:00 P.M.
The Michelle and Kevin Douglas IMAX Theatre, RZC 119, Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts, 3131 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
A successful music video director and expectant father pushes his work/life balance to the extreme when he can't pass up the job of a lifetime and hires a doppelgänger to work in his stead. Serious People is a fresh and authentic comedy that explores what it means to be a "director" and a parent — and the replaceability of people in clout-heavy Los Angeles.
2026 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science Seminar: OUR OCEANS - How We Can Save Them
November 14, 2025, 4:00 P.M.
The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
The goal of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Film School program is to influence and encourage the next generation of filmmakers to create more realistic and dramatic stories about science and technology, and to challenge existing stereotypes about scientists and engineers through visual media storytelling.
THE THINGS YOU KILL
November 17, 2025, 7:00 P.M.
The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Questioning the suspicious death of his mother, a university professor and his enigmatic gardener descend into a hypnotic maze of mirrors and memories. As family secrets surface and painful truths emerge, they spiral toward a devastating reckoning with the darkness lurking within us all.
PLAYDATE
November 18, 2025, 7:00 P.M.
Norris Cinema Theatre at the Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90007
When recently unemployed accountant Brian (Kevin James) agrees to a playdate with charismatic stay-at-home dad Jeff (Alan Ritchson) and their sons, he expects an easy afternoon of small talk and football tossing. Instead, he's thrust into a chaotic scramble to stay alive as they are pursued by a ruthless team of mercenaries. Brian stumbles through one ridiculous obstacle after another, his zero tactical skills a stark contrast to Jeff's oddly prepared demeanor. Director Luke Greenfield (Let's Be Cops, The Girl Next Door) hilariously collides suburban dad life with high-stakes thrills, transforming an ordinary afternoon into an absurd action-packed adventure where minivan mayhem meets professional hitmen.