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“From Script to Screen: Wisdom and Advice on the Filmmaking Path” 2025
Film Screening, Film
Wednesdays 6:00pm – 7:30pm Join established Hollywood and international film and television industry professionals to learn about the four major stages of a film’s lifecycle: from writing the script, to producing and packaging it, directing, releasing and marketing. Hosted by Entertainment Executive and FMS alum Paul Davidson, and Director-Producer-Writer and FMS Professor Emerita, Fatimah ...
1/22/2025
6:00pm
Online Event
UCI International Film Club: The French Connection (1971)
Film, Film Screening, Movie
Join us for a screening on 1/22/25 at 7:00pm! Considered one of the greatest films ever made, this neo-noir set in New York City stars Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider as detectives in pursuit of a French heroin dealer. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won five of them. Not to be missed for lovers of action/thriller and 1970s gritty realism.
1/22/2025
7:00pm
McCormick Screeni...
White Privilege: Panel Discussion
Conversation, Performance
Join us for a conversation with writer/performer Thomas DeFrantz and composer/performer Quran Karriem about their work, White Privilege. Dean Tiffany Ana López will moderate a discussion about the creative heritage of the work and its importance to the ongoing conversation about equity within institutions. Image credit: Photo by Thomas DeFrantz; design by Philip Thompson Snacks will be p...
1/24/2025
11:00am
Experimental Medi...
White Privilege: Performance
Performance, Awareness
Thomas DeFrantz and composer/performer Quran Karriem perform their piece White Privilege. A performative lecture by Thomas DeFrantz with live sound design and electronic music by Quran Karriem, White Privilege engages white privilege as a discourse, casting the performative space as an opportunity to enlarge care and do better. Image credit: Photo by Thomas DeFrantz; design by Philip Wri...
1/25/2025
4:00pm
Experimental Medi...
National Theatre Live Screening: Vanya
Theatre, Performance
Filmed live at London's West End and screened in HD “Funny, sexy and surprisingly emotional.” —Independent Adapted by Simon Stephens, after Anton Chekhov Directed by Sam Yates Designed by Rosanna Vize Andrew Scott (Fleabag, Sherlock, Ripley) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s U...
1/26/2025
3:00pm
Irvine Barclay Th...
Lunar New Year: Culinary Experience and Free Dinner
Cooking, Lunar New Year, Food
Date and time: January 28, 6-7:30pm Location: Demonstration Kitchen at the Anteater Recreation Center Happy Lunar New Year! This is the year of Snake. May you have a great year of joy, health, inspiration, and prosperity! We will celebrate the year of snake with an unforgettable culinary experience. Dumplings, spring rolls, sweet rice cakes, rice cake soup, fish, oranges, rice balls...
1/28/2025
6:00pm
The Demonstration...
“From Script to Screen: Wisdom and Advice on the Filmmaking Path” 2025
Film Screening, Film Production
Join established Hollywood and international film and television industry professionals to learn about the four major stages of a film’s lifecycle: from writing the script, to producing and packaging it, directing, releasing and marketing. Hosted by Entertainment Executive and FMS alum Paul Davidson, and Director-Producer-Writer and FMS Professor Emerita, Fatimah Tobing Rony, this series is ope...
1/29/2025
6:00pm
Online Event
Wish You Were Here - Sanaz Toossi
Performance, Theatre, Play / Performance
A West Coast Premiere from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of English. From Sanaz Toossi, comes a heartfelt, moving play about friendship, identity and resilience. 1978. Protests break out across Iran as five close girlfriends plan weddings, trade dirty jokes and try to live their young lives. As the revolution escalates, each woman is forced to face an uncertain future by staying in Iran...
2/1/2025
2:00pm
South Coast Reper...
Twelve Angry Jurors
Theatre, Performance
UCI Drama Emergent Series presents Twelve Angry Jurors adapted by Sherman L Sergal based on the Emmy Award Winning Television Movie by Reginald Rose, is a tension driven drama that unfolds entirely within a confined jury room, where twelve jurors deliberate the fate of a young man accused of murder. As tensions rise and prejudices surface, the play explores themes of justice, prejudice, and the...
2/6/2025
7:00pm
UCI Little Theatr...
A Conversation with Yang Shuang-Zi, Author of Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel, and Translator Lin King
Author, Workshop, Talk, Culture
And with Translator Lin King! WINNER of the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experienc...
2/18/2025
4:30pm
Humanities Gatewa...