SCA Events

Outside the Box [Office]: Fall 2009
SCA's weekly screening series highlighting new foreign, documentary and independent films presented before their theatrical releases.
September 09, 2009 - December 16, 2009

SCA Alumni Screening Series: Fall 2009
The School of Cinematic Arts presents new films by SCA alumni throughout the Fall 2009 semester, featuring documentary and narrative films and post-screening Q&As with the crew.
September 09, 2009 - December 18, 2009

Cinematheque108 Alternative Screening Series: Fall 2009
The Division of Critical Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts hosts the Cinematheque108 Alternative Screening Series, an educational forum which brings rare experimental, foreign, and/or documentary films to the public in the middle of Hollywood
September 10, 2009 - December 18, 2009

Metropolitan Opera HD Season 2009/2010
The School of Cinematic Arts presents selections from the Metropolitan Opera's HD satellite transmissions during the 2009/2010 season. Screenings feature HD projection and 5.1 surround sound.
September 10, 2009 - May 01, 2010

SCA: Fall Graduate Recruitment Events Schedule
Interested in more... more education, more opportunities to use your imagination making films, playing games, talking and writing about films? Join the USC School of Cinematic Arts at one of its scheduled graduate fairs, information sessions or tours.
September 23, 2009 - December 17, 2009

GNC: Celebrating 15 Years of Helping
In 1993, the University of Southern California made it a priority and its responsibility to enhance the quality of life in the neighborhoods surrounding the University Park and Health Science campuses with its Good Neighbors Campaign (GNC).
October 01, 2009 - December 31, 2009

Online Graduate Information Session
Learn more about graduate education at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
November 23, 2009

Russell Banks, Atom Egoyan and the Scripting of Time
Author Russell Banks and film director Atom Egoyan powerfully explore themes of tragedy, humanity, alienation and memory in their work. This event will bring these two geniuses together for a provocative conversation about the treachery of memory and how we learn, forget and lie in time.
November 23, 2009

Online Graduate Information Session
Learn more about graduate education at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
November 24, 2009

SCA Alumni Screening Series: THE SKYJACKER
A tragic romance about the fickleness of destiny. When an unnamed nowhere man decides to take life by the horns by hijacking a plane for money, the last thing he expects is to fall in love.
November 24, 2009

Online Graduate Information Session
Learn more about graduate education at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
November 25, 2009

Graduate Admission Information Session & Tour
Learn more about graduate education at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and tour the school, including the new School of Cinematic Arts Complex.
December 03, 2009

Outside the Box [Office]: cin(T)a
Cina and Annisa love God, and God loves them both. But Cina and Annisa cannot love each other because they call God by different names. Featuring a Q&A with the writer/director.
December 04, 2009

Outside the Box [Office]: GRANDPA IS DEAD
What happens when a member of a family suddenly dies? What if the family of the deceased is not ready for the eventual passing away of their loved ones – how does one cope with the event? This is the story of the late Juanito Hernandez and his bereaved family.
December 06, 2009

Outside the Box [Office]: VALENTINO THE LAST EMPEROR
Shown around the world to wide acclaim, this behind-the-scenes look at the world of fashion features unprecedented access to the high temples of Haute Couture. The legendary Valentino Garavani is the star of the film, along with his longtime business partner, Giancarlo Giammetti.
December 06, 2009

SCA Alumni Screening Series: AMERICAN PRIMITIVE
Everybody in Dennis, Cape Cod thinks that Harry Goodhart is quite the catch. Harry, a handsome Englishman, has just moved to this seaside destination with his teenage daughters, Madeline and Daisy. Madeline and Daisy, however, are determined to keep their recently widowed father away from the swarm of female suitors.
December 06, 2009

Outside the Box [Office]: BROKEN EMBRACES
Writer/director Pedro Almodóvar and leading actress Penélope Cruz reunite for a new drama about the dual personalities of a film director and screenwriter, who struggles to suppress the memories of a car crash that killed the love of his life.
December 07, 2009

Metropolitan Opera HD presentation: TURANDOT
Director Franco Zeffirelli's breathtaking production of Puccini's last opera is a favorite of the Met repertoire. Presented in HD with 5.1 sound.
December 08, 2009

Outside the Box [Office]: DIRTY HANDS
Director Harry Kim goes through eight haphazard years filled with mayhem to follow and deliver a portrait of David Choe, a young near-schizophrenic street artist that devises numerous criminal schemes that afford him to hitchhike across the globe.
December 09, 2009

Special preview screening of THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS in CTCS-466
"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" is a fantastical morality tale, set in the present-day. It tells the story of Dr. Parnassus and his extraordinary 'Imaginarium', a traveling show where members of the audience get an irresistible opportunity to choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom.
December 10, 2009

Outside the Box [Office]: SAMSON & DELILAH
A love story of survival, "Samson & Delilah" is a gritty, uncompromising, richly inventive coming-of-age story of two 14 year-olds from a sleepy Aboriginal community who escape their lives to discover the world outside.
December 13, 2009

Outside the Box [Office]: POLICE, ADJECTIVE
Cristi is a policeman who refuses to arrest a young man who offers hashish to two of his school mates because he does not want the life of a young man he considers merely irresponsible to be a burden on his conscience
December 16, 2009

Metropolitan Opera HD presentation: HAMLET
Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay bring their extraordinary acting and singing skills to two of the Bard's most unforgettable characters in this new production of Ambroise Thomas' "Hamlet". Preceded by a discussion about the opera, hosted by the Thornton School of Music.
March 27, 2010