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Upcoming Events
In-Person 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!
Emberence: What Fire Remembers (An Immersive Experience)
December 9, 2025 - December 10, 2025, 5:00 - 8: 00 pm
SCA Gallery
An immersive exhibit about wildfire created by the students in IML 477: Embodied Storytelling and Immersive Docu-Narratives o.
CTPR 457 Creating Poetic Cinema Screening
December 10, 2025, 7-9pm
SCI 106
30 new short films by 547 students!
Working with Archives: Protection, Preservation, and Storytelling
December 10, 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
In an archive, every recording, frame, song, and reel is a story worth retelling. But as formats change and technology evolves, how can you ensure that your archive’s stories are able to be shared long into the future? Join Andrea Kalas, VP of Media and Archival Services at Iron Mountain Media & Archival Services, and award-winning SCA alumni filmmakers Ross Dinerstein, Leslie Iwerks, and Ben Proudfoot, in conversation with SCA Professor Ted Braun, as they discuss the function and value of media archives both to safeguard the legacy of the past and to inspire stories in the future.
THE HOUSEMAID
December 11, 2025, 2:00 P.M.
Norris Cinema Theatre at the Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90007
The Housemaid is a wildly entertaining thriller starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, based on the best-selling book. From director Paul Feig, the film plunges audiences into a twisted world where perfection is an illusion, and nothing is as it seems. Trying to escape her past, Millie (Sweeney) accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar). But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous — a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power. Behind the Winchesters’ closed doors lies a world of shocking twists that will leave you guessing until the very end.
USC Short Film Showcase
December 11, 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
A stranger takes a family hostage and threatens to kill them unless the father can answer the stranger’s only demand: “Tell me who I am.” But the father doesn’t know. So to save his family, he starts guessing. But his guesses reveal more about his own past.
547 Documentary Screening
December 12, 2025, 7pm
Norris Theatre
You are cordially invited to the 547 Documentary Screening (Three short films made in SCA’s advanced documentary class).
CTPR 508 screening
December 13, 2025 - December 14, 2025, 12:30pm
Norris Theatre
Please join us for the premieres of 56 new films created in CTPR508 Production II during the Fall 2025 semester:
CTPR 484 Comedy Television Screening
December 13, 2025, 5pm
SCA 108
You are invited to the Premiere of the New Pilot Episode from CTPR 484: Comedy Television Production! "DEFCON 4"
CTPR 546 Screening
December 13, 2025, 7:30pm
Norris Theatre
(three short films made in SCA’s advanced scripted production class).
CTPR 310 End of Semester Screenings
December 14, 2025, 6:30-9:30pm
Norris Theater
CTPR 310 P3 Screenings at Norris Theater!
Save the Date: 581/582/587 Advanced Projects Screening – Dec 15 @ 7PM
December 15, 2025, 7pm
Norris Theatre
Doors open: 6:30pm, sho @ 7pm. Come celebrate our students as they showcase their projects!
CTPR 480 Screening
December 16, 2025, 6pm
Norris Theatre
Doors at 5:30pm. Come celebrate with our students as they showcase four short films they made in SCA's advanced production class!
CTPR 544 Screening
December 16, 2025, 9am
IMAX theatre Zemeckis Center
Join us for the screening of five virtual production short films, created by the Fall '25 class of CTPR 544
CTCS-467: Television Symposium
January 12, 2026 - May 4, 2026, 7:00 P.M. - 9:30 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
This Spring 2025 semester, the School of Cinematic Arts will offer a very special course called CTCS-467: Television Symposium, a four-unit elective class open for enrollment to ALL USC STUDENTS OF ANY MAJOR that brings you face-to-face with the leading television writers, producers, directors and actors working today. Each week, students watch contemporary television programming selected from the best shows on the air, followed by an exclusive Q&A with the creative team behind the show. The class is taught by MARY MCNAMARA, Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic and cultural editor for the Los Angeles Times and meets in person every Monday night @ 7:00 P.M. in the Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108.
CTCS-469: BILLY WILDER'S HOLLYWOOD
January 13, 2026 - May 4, 2026, 10:00 A.M. - 1:50 P.M. on Tuesdays
Norris Cinema Theatre at the Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90007
This class will focus on the work of writer-director Billy Wilder, from the noir of Double Indemnity and Sunset Blvd. to the comedy of Some Like It Hot and One, Two, Three, the biting satire of Ace in the Hole to the melancholy romance of The Apartment. As with any auteurist class, we'll explore Wilder's biography, influences, and stylistic and thematic preoccupations, including his status as a Jewish refugee of European fascism and his formative experiences in Weimar Germany. His background informed his supposed 'cynicism' but also his empathy for those on the margins of respectability and victimized by the powerful. We will also use his career as a means to explore larger phenomenon of the Hollywood Studio System including the absorption of European refugees, Classical Hollywood style, the studio system and its decline, film noir, the rise of independent production, gender and stardom, and the breakdown of the Production Code and censorship.
CTPR-485: How They Made It - KPOP DEMON HUNTERS
January 13, 2026 - May 5, 2026, 4:00 - 6:50 P.M. on Tuesdays
SCI 106, Interactive Media Building, 3470 McClintock Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90089
This course covers how this record breaking animated film was made from pitch to creation to the ongoing developments. An exploration of the creative and business decisions, Korean cultural influences, and more. Featuring the talent and executives who made it all happen!
IML-499: Wanna Make Your Own DIY Music Video?
January 14, 2026 - May 6, 2026, 4:00 P.M. - 6:50 P.M. on Wednesdays
USC School of Cinematic Arts
Taught by Professors Evan Hughes and Michael Bodie. No D-Clearance Needed!
CTCS-464: CONS AND COMEDY
January 14, 2026 - May 6, 2026, 6:00 P.M. - 10:00 P.M. on Wednesdays
Norris Cinema Theatre at the Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Why do con stories fascinate us, and what makes them different from more pedestrian crime fictions? Why do cons work? What makes us susceptible to them, and how do they reflect the structure of our desires? How does the world of cons react to technological change, and how are certain cons made possible or impossible by specific material, technological, and media affordances? How are cons presented in films, and how has our image of the con changed in the past century? What do we find funny about them, and how have con stories been used to elicit comedy in film? Can we place the current golden age of technologically-aided cons in a longer trajectory? All these questions and more will guide our inquiry into the cinematic genre of the con and its somewhat contentious relationship with comedy.
IML-460: AI and Creativity
January 15, 2026 - May 7, 2026, 10:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. on Thursdays
USC School of Cinematic Arts
This hands-on exploration of AI introduces new tools and creative techniques while also examining the myriad controversies related to this paradigm-changing technology in a theory/practice format.
CTCS-402: PRACTICUM IN FILM/TELEVISION CRITICISM
January 15, 2026 - May 7, 2026, 10:00 A.M. - 1:50 P.M. on Thursdays
SCA 316, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211
In this course, you will expand your skills in writing about film and media, while learning about the evolving industry of media and culture journalism, with a focus on film reviews, long form analysis, and audio and visual criticism. CTCS 402 is an opportunity to hone your analytical eye, develop writing technique, and find your own personal voice within a collaborative environment. The goal of this class is not just to learn to write media criticism, but to deepen your understanding of the industrial landscape, and to engage in the current world of film criticism, and above all to learn how to think critically.
Social Change Film Festival - (Media Institute For Social Change)
February 12, 2026, 5pm
SCA 112
MISC Film Festival - DATE CHANGE!