Have you seen the Academy Museum's latest exhibition? “Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898-1971,” which explores the rich history of Black participation in American cinema from its beginnings to just beyond the civil rights movement, opened in August and runs through April 2023. TFT's Cinema and Media Studies Professor Ellen C. Scott weighs in on her experience as an advisor on the project, one of only three academics chosen from around the country to participate.
 

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TFT Theater Season: Antigone

Don't miss the first theater production of the 2022-23 season! Antigone is a 21st century spin on the classic Greek myth and centers around the tension between media, government and the people — as well as the war over bodily autonomy and women’s rights.

Nov. 17-19, 21-22. Get tickets

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In Memoriam: Patricia Harter
 

Patricia “Pat” Harter, a professor emerita at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, died at her Granada Hills home on Oct. 8 from congestive heart failure. She was 78. Pat joined the UCLA faculty in 1979 as a lecturer, teaching theater of Southeast Asia and Japanese theater courses, and retired in 2014. She is survived by her husband Rick Harter, a daughter, son-in-law and two granddaughters. Read more

In Memoriam: Pamela Beere Briggs

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Pamela Beere Briggs (BA '80, MFA ’90), wife of TFT Professor William McDonald, died on April 6, from breast cancer. Born in Japan to American expats who relocated to California when she was 10, the experience of feeling like a stranger in her own land had a profound influence on Pamela as a storyteller, with many of her projects exploring the idea of belonging. She is also survived by her daughter Natalie.

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