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“From Script to Screen: Wisdom and Advice on the Filmmaking Path” 2025

“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)

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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...