UCLA School of Film and Television Popular Movie

Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Harvey Milk

As the sun rises, we witness two male bodies emerge from the darkness. The younger of the two attempts to sneak out on the older man he just slept...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Steve Connell

Francesco takes an unsparing look at the most pressing challenges of the 21st-century, asking deep questions about the human condition. The film is...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pope Francis

A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.

Genre: Animation

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When an aged man feels the need to confess to the new catholic priest, his gay lover of many years is hurt and upset.

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Cast: Bert Kramer

A woman who works in a night club starts having obsessive thoughts, beginning to lose her hold on reality.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sylvia Morales

An Alien is sent to earth to investigate the "incubators." She discovers that she is replacing a rogue agent. She questions her mission.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alem Brhan Sapp

As a woman anxiously awaits her overdue period, she performs African-based rituals of purification. She cleans house and body, and calls on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stephanie Ingram

Amanda has been dreaming of having her own real-life book romance. When one day, she stumbles upon a penny, her wish starts to become reality as it...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jurnee Woo

An improvised late '60s short-subject student film, and debut movie of Charles Burnett, done in the neo-realist, documentary film style. A...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andy Burnett

A chronicle of lives lost in a school shooting. In the wake of another tragedy, we get a glimpse of each victim and see who they were, who they...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Franco

Serena starts reflecting on the commitment in her own relationship with Donielle when she is asked to be the maid of honor for her former lover...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kehaunani Hunt

An early student film directed By Francis Ford Coppola during his time at UCLA School of Film and Television. This short would later be expanded on...

Genre: Drama

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Cultural traditions blend as a Japanese American family celebrates Christmas and a young girl tries to find her place within the family structure.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kimi Nakaba

An eight-year-old boy experiences his first heartbreak when he falls in love with his male third-grade teacher.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zackary Arthur

In 1963 a boy and his mother are left in Saigon while his father and brother flee to seek shelter from religious persecution in North Vietnam. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Duong Don

Jamaa Fanaka’s first project plays off the Blaxploitation’s genre conventions, an adaption of Goethe’s “Faust”...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Jamaa Fanaka

A former cop works in purgatory and processes people going to heaven and hell. One day, his 20 year old son appears.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Caesar James

Ben Caldwell’s Medea, a collage piece made on an animation stand and edited entirely in the camera, combines live action and rapidly edited...

Genre: Documentary

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Animation of a poem from Edith Sitwell's "Façade".

Genre: Animation

Cast: Bill Scott