Amy Tofte’s ‘Contact Tracing’ Premieres at Awareness Film Festival
October 24, 2025
Writer and director Amy Tofte (Theater MFA 11) premieres her film Contact Tracing at the 16th Annual Awareness Film Festival
Category: Film/Video
CalArts MFA Student Ilse Castro Corona Directs ‘Life Is a Dream’ at Highways Performance Space
October 23, 2025
CalArts School of Theater MFA student Ilse Castro Corona directs Life Is a Dream (Sueños de Libertad), a contemporary ensemble-based
‘Unfolding Visions’ at REDCAT Showcases Film and Moving-Image Works by CalArts Faculty
October 23, 2025
Unfolding Visions, a curated screening at Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT) on Oct. 27, showcases recent film, video, and
CalArtians Awarded 2025 Creative Research Grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts
October 22, 2025
On Tuesday, Oct. 21, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) announced the recipients of its 2025 Creative Research Grants, awarding
Electronic Music Pioneer, CalArts Professor Emeritus Barry Schrader Releases First New Album in More Than a Decade
October 21, 2025
Barry Schrader (Music MFA 71), electronic music pioneer and professor emeritus of The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts,
John Warren Examines Nashville’s Past and Present in Experimental Film ‘Future Tense’
October 16, 2025
John Warren’s (Film/Video MFA 12) 16mm film Future Tense is featured in the Frist Art Museum’s exhibition Avenues to a Great City in Nashville.
Variety Names CalArts a 2024 ‘Film School Titan’
May 8, 2024
Entertainment trade publication Variety recently released its 2024 ranking of the top film schools in North America, with CalArts named a “Film School Titan”—placing it
Suzanne Méjean Pinney Cuts Two New PBS Programs
May 7, 2024
Among the Public Broadcasting Service’s (PBS) educational slate of news, arts, and music are two programs about the impact of arts education to new perspectives
2024 Character Animation Producers’ Show Returns to the Academy Museum
May 2, 2024
On Tuesday night, members of the CalArts community, industry representatives, and friends and family journeyed to LA’s Miracle Mile neighborhood to celebrate Character Animation students’
2024 Winners of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts Announced
May 2, 2024
This morning (May 2), 10 risk-taking, mid-career artists were announced as the recipients of the 2024 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (HAAIA). They are:
Filmmaker Arom Choi Selected for CJ & TIFF K-Story Fund
April 25, 2024
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), in partnership with the CJ Cultural Foundation and the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), has officially announced the selection of
Two Film/Video Faculty Named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows
April 11, 2024
On Thursday, April 11, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the 2024 class of Guggenheim Fellows. Among the “distinguished list of culture-creators working across 52
Passage of the Spiral by Natalia Lassalle-Morillo Premieres at REDCAT
April 8, 2024
On Thursday, April 11, CalArts Center for New Performance (CNP) presents the world premiere of Passage of the Spiral (Pasadizo en Spiral) at REDCAT in
In Memoriam: Lou Florimonte
April 3, 2024
Update: The Film Directing Program’s Showcase screening on May 3 will be dedicated to Lou Florimonte’s memory, with a prescreening gathering in the REDCAT Lounge
Yaloo’s Solo Show Opens at Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art
April 2, 2024
School of Film/Video faculty Yaloo imagines a near future that explores a world shaped by humanity’s desire for immortality, strange bodies, and different species in
CalArtians Win Women in Animation Scholarships
March 26, 2024
At the 2024 BRIC Talent and Innovation Summit held in Los Angeles, the Women in Animation (WIA) Scholarship winners were announced in person for the
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