Year In Review
This year’s new undergraduate (top) and graduate classes pose in the SCA courtyard.
Top: John Singleton’s mother Shelia Ward (l) with filmmaker David Talbert at the kickoff of a year-long retrospective of Singleton’s work.
Bottom L-R: SCA Professor Robert Townsend moderates a discussion of Boyz N The Hood with Ward, Frank Price (the exec who greenlit the film) and its location scout Kojo Lewis.
Top: Director Park Chan-Wook (left, with SCA Vice Dean Akira Lippit) screened his hit Decision to Leave to a packed Norris theatre.
Bottm L-R: Park answered students’ questions and received the School’s Eisenstein Award from Dean Elizabeth Daley.
Top: Alumni celebrate the First Jobs program placing more than 1,000 recent alumni in industry positions.
Bottom L-R: First Jobs was the brainchild of producer Aaron Kaplan. Lisa Fox, who runs the program, addresses party attendees.
Top: A retrospective exhibition celebrating Gary Cooper’s life and brilliant career ran from April through September at SCA.
Bottom L-R: Cooper’s saddle and Oscars were exhibited, and his biographers Maria Cooper Janis (his daughter) and Glenn Frankel signed their books at a kickoff event.
Alumni filmmakers celebrate together at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.
SCA alumnus Hwang Dong-hyuk, creator of the Netflix phenomenon Squid Game, visited a class and answered students’ questions.
Top: Student Howard Emanuel (third from right) and post-doc fellow Slava Greenberg (second from right) launched conceived a campus disability advocacy organization and launched it with a screening of CODA, the winner of this year’s Oscar Best Picture, followed by a panel discussion with the director Sian Heder (second left) and cast members Marlee Matlin, Tony Kotsur, and Daniel Durant (far right).
Bottom L-R: The actors communicated in American sign language, as did the audience with their applause.
Pizza everyone? The Office of Communication & PR hosted pizza parties in the SCA courtyard to encourage students to get to know each other.
Ted Sarandos, Netflix Co-CEO and Chief Content Officer, spent an evening at SCA in conversation with students.
Parents and other family members came to campus to learn more about our programs, and visit their SCA students.
Writer/director Alejandro Iñárritu brought his new film Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths to Norris theatre. Iñárritu spoke about the film with SCA Vice Dean Akira Lippit.
Top: Marvel President Kevin Feige (L) and Wakanda Forever writer/director Ryan Coogler flank SCA Professor Leonard Maltin.
Bottom L-R: Coogler and Feige took questions from students following a screening of the film that was attended by USC President Carol Folt.