In January, the Hilda Solis High School junior class was assigned to create short public service announcement videos about mental health in their advisory period, which would be submitted to the Directing Change Film Contest. Directing Change is an organization that...
If every day feels the same or you’re feeling stuck in time during this quarantine season, the remake of the iconic 1980s cult classic “Valley Girl” is sure to take you on a trip back in time through this new nostalgic, colorful musical remake, directed by Rachel...
Featuring a cast of eccentric personalities, "Almost Love" made its on-demand debut on Friday, April 3. It follows an openly gay couple named Adam and Marklin as they reach their five year dating anniversary. Adam, portrayed by actor Scott Evans, is an affectionate...
The 1995 documentary film “The Shadow of Hate” expressed the history of oppression, discrimination, violence, and hate in America. The narrator begins with a scene in Pennsylvania on a summer day in 1925 in which 40,000 American Klansmen gather together to declare...
The hearty thump of your backpack echoes through your house as you return home from a long day of school. Exhausted, you throw your limp body onto your couch and pick up the TV remote. As you sluggishly scroll through Netflix’s homepage, it seems as though you’ve seen...
I came to the film department at the California State Summer School for the Arts hoping to learn how to film my own scripts. As a screenwriter, I wanted to make my own words fly off the page. However, CSSSA was nothing as I expected. Instead of guiding your hand...
In an interview over the phone, executive director Chris Chin of Vive Studios, a content developing and publishing division of HTC, discusses the company’s first ever feature-length film in Virtual Reality. “Because technology is evolving, there’s a learning curve....
Eighteen years after the first revolutionary film comes “The Other Side of Heaven 2: Fire and Faith.” In the first movie, missionary John H. Groberg (Christopher Gorham) visited Tonga, a Polynesian kingdom of more than 170 South Pacific islands. Through all costs, he...
The 24-year-old franchise is back with “Toy Story 4,” where the toys go on a road trip and Woody reunites with Bo Peep (Annie Potts). Along the way, they meet new characters like Forky (Tony Hale), Duke Caboom (Keanu Reeves), Bunny (Jordan Peele), Ducky...
The toys are back and they’re off on another adventure. Bonnie makes a new friend in kindergarten, a plastic spork named Forky (Tony Hale), who is convinced that he belongs in the trash. After Bonnie’s family decides to go on a road trip, Woody (Tom Hanks) makes it...
