Upcoming Events

• 28th Edition of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival May 10, 2012 - May 20, 2012, Varied Varied The USC School of Cinematic Arts will present SHANGHAI CALLING (Encore Presentation) and SONGLAP at the 28th Edition of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF), May 10th - 20th, 2012 at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and other Los Angeles venues.
  
• 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: Spring 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.
  
• ELENA May 16, 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 Winner of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize, "Elena" is a gripping, modern twist on the classic noir thriller. Sixty-ish spouses Vladimir and Elena uneasily share his palatial Moscow apartment—he’s a still-virile, wealthy businessman; she’s his dowdy former nurse who has clearly “married up.” Estranged from his own wild-child daughter, Vladimir openly despises his wife’s freeloading son and family. But when a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten the dutiful housewife’s potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan....
  
• POLISSE May 17, 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 The daily grind for the police officers of the Child Protection Unit - taking in child molesters, busting underage pickpockets and chewing over relationship issues at lunch; interrogating abusive parents, taking statements from children, confronting the excesses of teen sexuality, enjoying solidarity with colleagues and laughing uncontrollably at the most unthinkable moments. Knowing the worst exists and living with it. How do these police officers balance their private lives and the reality they confront every working day?
  
• THE ECHO GAME May 21, 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 When her adopted daughter’s psychic powers attract the wrong kind of attention, April (Alisha Seaton) must save both herself and her child from a crazed scientist. Together with her friend Casey (Jeannie Bolét) and a hard nosed detective (David Ghilardi), April must track down a woman long thought dead (Angela Landis) in order to solve a mystery and save their own skin. April’s only hope for survival is to uncover the secret of her daughter’s past and beat the killers at their own game in this terrifying thriller.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.