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

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

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

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

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

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

Genre: Animation

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

Genre: Animation

Cast: Bill Scott

A maan is trying to decide if he should go to Vietnam with the US army.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tony Ginn

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

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

Writer-director Robert Wheaton’s story of a shy guy, Mark (Parros), trying all the wrong moves to meet the right girl rides high on a romantic...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Parros

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

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Jamaa Fanaka

A woman from Nigeria seeks work in the United States while her daughter struggles with premonitions and homesickness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pamela Jones

In the course of a botched purse-snatching, a boy comes to question the path of his life. Billy Woodberry’s second film, and first completed in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ray Cherry

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...

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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

Mike Jittlov's 1969 short film Good Grief, made for Dan McLaughlin’s animation class at UCLA and a finalist for shortlisting at the Academy...

Genre: Animation

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When Cassandra witnesses a drunken encounter between her friend and her roommate, she is compelled to investigate if it was consensual.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mathia Vargas

A prescient portrait of late-1970s Washington, D.C., that chronicles the city's creeping gentrification, the systematic expulsion of poor Black...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lester Wakefield

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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