Communication and Media Studies (Audio)

Writer-director Scott Frank, talks to UCSB students about getting the crime drama "A Walk Among the Tombstones" made. Frank’s other screenplays include Little Man Tate, Dead Again, Malice, Heaven’s Prisoners, Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Minority Report, The Interpreter and Marley & Me. Frank graduated from UCSB in 1982 with a BA in Film Studies. Since then he has written movies for filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg, Sidney Pollack, Steven Soderbergh, Barry Sonnenfeld, Jodie Foster and Kenneth Brannagh. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29842]

Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner, set in a dystopian city-world of the future, presented extreme cinematographic challenges. UCSB Film and Media Studies faculty members Ross Melnick and Anna Brusutti discuss the making of the film and why it resonates so many years after its original release. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29844]

Script to Screen was invited to the 2015 WGA and DGA Awards to interview the nominees and their presenters. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29843]

1941 screenwriter Bob Gale (who also wrote the Back to the Future Trilogy), actor Perry Lang, 2nd Assistant Director Chris Soldo, assistant casting director Stanzi Stokes, and score restorer Michael Matessino look at this 1979 Steven Spielberg farce. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29845]

Executive Producer/Director Jack Bender unlocks the production secrets of translating Lost from script to screen. And, he might just provide some clues to unlock the secrets of "The Island." Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29742]

Filmmaker Allison Anders discusses her career in film and television, specifically Orange is the New Black Episode 6 from Season 2 (You Also Have a Pizza), which she directed. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29745]

Director Julia Marchese discusses her documentary exploring the importance of revival cinema and 35mm exhibition as seen through the lens of the patrons of the New Beverly Cinema. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29625]

Director Louis Psihoyos and co-producer Gina Papabeis discuss the film Racing Extinction which shows shows an unlikely team of activists and innovators who hatch a bold mission to save endangered species. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29624]

Executive producer and co-writer of Journey of the Universe Mary Evelyn Tucker discusses the evolution of her book and the film that explores the nature of the universe. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29623]

Steven Salaita (former Associate Professor of English at Virginia Tech) and Sherene Seikaly (UCSB Assistant Professor in History) discuss writer-director Elia Suleiman’s The Time That Remains. Winner of the Jury Grand Prize at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and nominated for a Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the film is an intimate semi-biographical portrait of Palestinians living as a minority in their own homeland between 1948 and the present day. Inspired by his father’s diaries, letters his mother sent to family members who had fled the Israeli occupation, and the director’s own recollections, the film recounts the saga of the filmmaker’s family in subtly hilarious vignettes. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29622]