I made a few primitive documentaries in college. One day during my senior spring I was walking out of a class when a friend said You like movies so much, you should go to film school. It had never even occurred to me. I was flying to Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship at the end [...][...]
Posts Tagged ‘UCLA Film School’
October 5th, 2009 - 9:52 pm § in UCLA Film School
Fall 410 Schedule
The fall quarter for 410s (incoming graduate students) is incredibly rigorous. On top of the following class schedule, we also have to write, cast, scout locations for, rehearse and produce our two minute films. This is what the schedule looks like for the fall quarter for incoming MFA Directing/Pro[...]
September 16th, 2009 - 1:35 am § in Screenwriting, UCLA Film School
UCLA Boot Camp: Pitch Day
Today we pitched our two minute films. All day. 19 people pitched two ideas and received feedback on them. It was invigorating and exhausting and offered an opportunity to see all sorts of approaches to storytelling, from experimental to narrative. Two minutes is not a lot of time to tell a story, s[...]
September 15th, 2009 - 2:51 am § in UCLA Film School
UCLA Film School Boot Camp Luncheon
Yesterday we had our first complete get-together as a class. I had organized a previous meeting at an awful bar where about 10 people came, but this was the first time we were all together. We met at Myrl Schreibman’s house, one of the two professors (the other being Delia Salvi) for our directing[...]
September 4th, 2009 - 11:27 pm § in UCLA Film School
First Impressions of Los Angeles
I flew over the stream of lights and smoldering fires two days ago. I rented a car (Alamo $500 for three weeks with insurance) and drove to the wonderful Sydney Levine’s house to stay for a few days while I get my bearings. The car is very necessary here, and I would also recommend a [...][...]
On Becoming a Filmmaker
for Nicolas The last few years have been a period of great growth in my artistic life. I left the United States knowing that I wanted to become a filmmaker, specifically a writer and director. This was the extent of my knowledge on the subject. Over many years, sometimes painful, sometimes exhilarat[...]
July 21st, 2009 - 6:53 am § in Contemporary Short Films, UCLA Film School
Contemporary Short Films: The Replacement Child by Justin Lerner
Watch The Replacement Child on Vimeo “It is not the storyteller’s job to provide answers, but in fact the harder job is to correctly state the question.” -Anton Chekhov The Replacement Child was writer-director Justin Lerner‘s graduate directing thesis at UCLA’s School [...]