Must-see films at 2024 UCLA Festival of Preservation

A man opens a door and is surprised.

Hello preservation, my old friend. I’ve come to talk of you again. It’s not just any film conservation project that’s compelled my attention but UCLA’s justly acclaimed Festival of Preservation. Unspooling from Friday through the […]

UCLA diversity report: Women and minorities drove box office

A man and a woman speak in a forest.

“Barbie” may have painted the box office pink last year, but the overall picture for women in Hollywood could leave you feeling blue. Women and people of color drove the biggest box office winners of […]

UCLA announces ambitious “Hip Hop Initiative” with Chuck D

A rapper performs in front of an American flag

Two years ago at the California African American Museum in downtown Los Angeles, three titans of East Coast rap converged for a roundtable: influential “Paid in Full” rapper Rakim; Public Enemy’s cofounder Chuck D; and […]

UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report 2022 Documents Gains By Women & POC – Deadline

UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report 2022 Documents Gains By Women & POC – Deadline

Hollywood movies are more ethnically diverse than ever according to a new report from UCLA, which found that women and people of color “have made enormous gains” over the past decade in their share of […]