Upcoming Events

• Outside the Box [Office]: Summer 2012 May 14, 2012 - August 24, 2012, Varied Varied Outside the Box [Office] is SCA's ongoing weekly showcase for upcoming international, documentary and independent cinema. The series draws from around the globe to present movies that may challenge, inspire or simply entertain and often features recent award-winning films from Sundance, Cannes, Berlin, SXSW and Venice Film Festivals. All screenings are free of charge and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. All screenings will be OVERBOOKED to ensure capacity.
  
• SCA Alumni Screening Series 2012 May 14, 2012 - September 1, 2012, Varied Varied The School of Cinematic Arts invites you to a free screening series featuring a selection of new films by SCA alumni and faculty throughout the Spring 2012 semester.
  
• LOLA VERSUS May 22, 2012, 8:00 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 Greta Gerwig plays Lola, a 29-year-old woman dumped by her longtime boyfriend Luke (Joel Kinnaman) just three weeks before their wedding. With the help of her close friends Henry (Hamish Linklater) and Alice (Zoe Lister-Jones), Lola embarks on a series of desperate encounters in an attempt to find her place in the world as a single woman approaching 30.
  
• THE INTOUCHABLES May 22, 2012, 6:00 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 true story of two men who should never have met — a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
  
• THE PACT May 23, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Albert and Dana Broccoli Theatre, SCA 112, School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 After her mother passes away, Annie is persuaded to return home and pay final respects. Sleeping in her childhood bedroom, something ominous and unfamiliar in the house rattles the tough-as-nails heroine. Enlisting the aid of a local cop and a clairvoyant to investigate, Annie soon finds these mysterious disturbances only serve as a catalyst to bring forth long-repressed nightmares that reveal a disturbing secret about her family's history.
  
• 3rd Hungarian Documentary and Short Film Festival of Los Angeles OPENING NIGHT May 24, 2012, 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 Autumn 1944. Yellow star, ghettos, Arrow Cross terror. The inhabitants of Hungary's capital, Budapest, await the tragic fulfilment of their fate with helpless resignation. However, above one of the city's villas, once a week in the evening the stars of hope sparkle, if only for a few minutes. Imre Rose, the world-famous opera singer and a Jew himself, remains in Budapest and does not flee from the country in spite of his American, British, Swiss, Swedish and Vatican connections.
  
• ARJUN - THE WARRIOR PRINCE May 24, 2012, 3:00 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 Legend knows him as an archer of unwavering focus, the soldier who fought a battle in his own heart before taking up arms against his enemy. This is the untold story of Arjun, hero of the Mahabharata. A precocious talent plunged from boyhood and innocence into a murky world of deceit and betrayal, coming of age to become the most powerful warrior of his time. From the dusty plains of Hastinapur to the icy peaks of the Himalayas, "Arjun - The Warrior Prince" is the story of a man discovering what it takes to be a hero.
  
• DARK GIRLS May 25, 2012, 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 Has anything really changed since the days of American slavery when dark-skinned Blacks were made to suffer even greater indignities than their lighter skinned counterparts? Ask today’s dark Black woman. Dual documentary Directors/Producers D. Channsin Berry (Urban Winter Entertainment) and Bill Duke (Duke Media) took their cameras into everyday America in search of pointed, unfiltered and penetrating interviews with Black women of the darkest hues for their emotional expose’, "Dark Girls".
  
• OSLO, AUGUST 31ST May 29, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Albert and Dana Broccoli Theatre, SCA 112, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Anders (Anders Danielsen Lie) will soon complete his drug rehabilitation in the countryside. As part of the program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview. Taking advantage of the leave, he stays in the city, drifting around, meeting people he hasn’t seen in a long time. At the age of 34, Anders is smart, handsome and from a good family, but deeply haunted by all the opportunities he has wasted, and the people he has let down. For the remainder of the day and long into the night, the ghosts of past mistakes will wrestle with the chance of love, the possibility of a new life and the hope of a different future by the time morning arrives.
  
• MAY I BE FRANK May 30, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Albert and Dana Broccoli Theatre, SCA 112, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 "May I Be Frank" documents the transformation of Frank Ferrante’s life. Frank, a 54 year old Sicilian  from Brooklyn, finds himself living in San Francisco struggling with addiction and depression. He is  severely overweight and must rely on pharmaceutical drugs to combat his Hepatitis C. Frank is looking for a way out, knowing that he needs a change in his life before it’s too late. One day Frank unknowingly stumbles into a local restaurant in San Francisco. Café Gratitude, as Frank comes to learn, is a raw, organic and vegan café. Frank becomes friends with the staff and returns to the café where he feels welcomed and free from his collapsing personal life. On one such visit, Frank is  asked by a server “what is one thing you want to do before you die.” Franks response is “fall in love one more time, but no one will love me looking the way I do.”
  
• ALMOST KINGS May 31, 2012, 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 With their father lost in anger and self-loathing, “Truck” Wheeler has raised his younger brother Ted as best as he could, considering he’s just a teenager himself. In return, Ted idolizes his brother. Now, during their one year of high school together, Ted will realize there are troubling aspects to Truck and his party-hardy gang, “The Kings.” Sometimes, acceptance comes with a price.
  
• LEAST AMONG SAINTS June 4, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Albert and Dana Broccoli Theatre, SCA 112, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Coming home to a broken marriage and unsure future, veteran Anthony Hayward thinks he’s at the end of his rope. But when his troubled ten year-old neighbor, Wade, calls out for help, Anthony can’t seem to turn away. To the dismay of the boy’s embattled social worker, Anthony sets out on a fool’s quest to help this heartbroken but hard to reach child find his long-lost father, who might not even exist.
  
• MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE'S MOST WANTED June 5, 2012, 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 Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Gloria the Hippo, and Melman the Giraffe are still fighting to get home to their beloved Big Apple and of course, King Julien, Maurice and the Penguins are all along for the comedic adventure. Their journey takes them through Europe where they find the perfect cover: a traveling circus, which they reinvent – Madagascar style.
  
• WILD HORSES & RENEGADES June 6, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Albert and Dana Broccoli Theatre, SCA 112, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 "Wild Horses & Renegades", a call-to-action film hosted by Viggo Mortensen, Sheryl Crow, and Peter Coyote, examines the politics behind the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) controversial policies on public lands and questions the fate of America’s wild horses and burros, whose very existence is in jeopardy. The film examines the plight of America’s wild horses and the rapidly deteriorating condition of our wild and beautiful Public Lands in the majestic haunting American West.
  
• THE INVISIBLE WAR June 7, 2012, 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 From Oscar®- and Emmy®-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick (THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED, TWIST OF FAITH) comes THE INVISIBLE WAR, a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of America’s most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem—today, a female soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. The number of assaults in the last decade alone is believed to be in the hundreds of thousands.
  
• STREET DOGS OF SOUTH CENTRAL June 11, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Albert and Dana Broccoli Theatre, SCA 112, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Narrated by Queen Latifah, this feature length documentary follows the story of Elsie—a mother struggling to raise her litter of puppies in a harsh urban environment. Every day, Elsie and her brood travel the streets of South Central in search of food and shelter. Their daily struggle for survival in the ghetto is brilliantly captured and emotionally revealed in this captivating film.
  
• THE REVOLUTIONARY June 12, 2012, 6:00 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 During China’s Cultural Revolution, one of the most tragic and least understood political upheavals of the 20th century, Mao Zedong’s call to “make revolution” was answered by tens of millions of Chinese...and one American. "The Revolutionary" is a feature-length documentary film about the Maoist era and Sidney Rittenberg, an American who assumed an unprecedented role for a foreigner in Chinese politics. In those calamitous times, Mao’s last stand to hold on to power and to his political legacy, Rittenberg rose to prominence—the most important foreigner in China since Marco Polo.
  
• SCA Network Screening of Disney•Pixar's BRAVE in 3D and After-Party at The Whisper Lounge June 13, 2012, 7:00 P.M. Pacific Theatres at The Grove, 189 The Grove Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90036 Set in Scotland in a rugged and mythical time, "Brave" features Merida, an aspiring archer and impetuous daughter of royalty. Merida makes a reckless choice that unleashes unintended peril and forces her to spring into action to set things right.
  
• YOUR SISTER'S SISTER June 14, 2012, 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 year after his brother Tom's death, Jack is an emotionally unstable slacker. When he makes a scene at a memorial party, Tom's ex-girlfriend Iris offers up her family cabin on an island in the Pacific Northwest so Jack can seek catharsis in solitude. Once there, however, he runs into Iris' sister Hannah, a lesbian reeling from the abrupt end of a seven-year relationship who finds solace in the affable Tom's unexpected presence, and the two bond over a long night of drinking. The blurry evening concludes with an awkward sexual incident made worse by Iris' sudden presence at the cabin the next morning which sets into motion a twisted tale of ever-complicated relationships.
  
• TAKE THIS WALTZ June 15, 2012, 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 When Margot (Michelle Williams), 28, meets Daniel (Luke Kirby), their chemistry is intense and immediate. But Margot suppresses her sudden attraction; she is happily married to Lou (Seth Rogen), a cookbook writer. When Margot learns that Daniel lives across the street from them, the certainty about her domestic life shatters. She and Daniel steal moments throughout the steaming Toronto summer, their eroticism heightened by their restraint.
  
• THE DO-DECA-PENTATHLON June 19, 2012, 6:30 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 "The Do-Deca-Pentathlon" is the story of two grown brothers who secretly rekindle their fiercely competitive childhood sporting event – a homemade Olympics of 25 events – during a family reunion in order to finally determine the ultimate champion. When the rest of the family is disrupted by their unfinished business, the brothers must choose between their passion for beating the hell out of each other or the greater good of the family.
  
• TURN ME ON, DAMMIT! June 25, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Albert and Dana Broccoli Theatre, SCA 112, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 "Turn Me On, Dammit!" tells a story that is rarely if ever explored in films: the unbridled sexual appetite of a teenage girl. Certainly this subject has never been approached in such a candid and wryly comic way. 15-year-old Alma (Helene Bergsholm) is consumed by her out-of-control hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to down-and-dirty daydreams about practically everybody she lays eyes on.
  
• CRAZY EYES June 28, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Zach (Lukas Haas) seems to be living the Hollywood dream — he’s got a house in the hills, the phone numbers for dozens of beautiful women in his cell, and a hard-partying lifestyle aided and abetted by his bartender pal Dan (Jake Busey). But as Zach pursues a gorgeous, unattainable dream girl he calls “Crazy Eyes” (Madeline Zima), family issues (from the raising of Zach’s five-year-old son to the sudden illness of Zach’s dad) may teach this boozy lost boy how to become a man.
  
• Dating Your Character - How to Create Memorable Characters that Soar! July 14, 2012, 12:00pm - 4:00pm SCA 112 DATING YOUR CHARACTER – HOW TO CREATE MEMORABLE, FULLY DIMENSIONAL & NON-CLICHÉ CHARACTERS THAT SOAR (& SELL!)
  
• Transmedia for Filmmakers: A guide to moving your story across platforms July 16, 2012 - July 20, 2012, 4:00pm - 7:00pm SCA 203 Two Part Seminar on Transmedia. Learn how transmedia can be used to augment a script or film to increase the value of the intellectual property, help market the project before it's screened, and keep audiences engaged thereafter.
  
  OPEN TO EVERYONE. MUST RSVP
  
  Part 1: Monday, July 16, 2012
  Part 2: Friday, July 20, 2012
  
• Frederick Levy Presents: Pitch Like a Pro. How to Sell Your Story July 17, 2012 - July 19, 2012, 6:00pm - 9:00pm LEAVEY LIBRARY AUDITORIUM - USC University Park 651 West 35th Street Los Angeles, CA 90089 FREE EVENT.  OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.  MUST RSVP.