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Panic!: Swoon
Swoon (1992) · Oct 18, 2025
CWC Docs: Facing the Falls
Facing the Falls (2024) · Oct 11, 2025
CWC Global: Captain Volkonogov Escaped
Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2023) · Oct 4, 2025
Panic!: The Sound of Fury
The Sound of Fury (1950) · Sep 13, 2025
CWC Docs: American Homeboy
American Homeboy (2023) · Sep 6, 2025
Panic!: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) · Aug 23, 2025
Black Hollywood: Nickel Boys - A Conversation with RaMell Ross
Nickel Boys (2024) · Jun 14, 2025
CWC Docs: What These Walls Won’t Hold - A Conversation with Adamu Chan
What These Walls Won't Hold (2022) · Jun 7, 2025
The Moon and Back with Leah Bleich
The Moon and Back (2022) · May 24, 2025
Panic!: Strangers on a Train
Strangers on a Train (1951) · May 5, 2025
Panic!: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) · Apr 30, 2025
Panic!: Fresh Kill - A Conversation with Shu Lea Cheang
Fresh Kill (1988) · Apr 21, 2025
Deep6 - A Conversation with Madhuja Mukherjee
Deep6 (2021) · Apr 18, 2025
Panic!: Memoria
Memoria (2021) · Mar 17, 2025
Storytelling for the Screen: The Citizen
The Citizen (2012) · Oct 20, 2024
CWC Global: And Towards Happy Alleys
And, Towards Happy Alleys (2023) · Oct 7, 2024
Black Hollywood: Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes (2023) · Sep 29, 2024
Storytelling for the Screen: Fancy Dance
Fancy Dance (2024) · Sep 22, 2024
Black Hollywood: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) · Sep 13, 2024
CWC Docs: The Disappearance of Shere Hite
The Disappearance of Shere Hite (2023) · Sep 3, 2024
Revisiting the Classics: Nowhere
Nowhere (1997) · Aug 21, 2024
CWC Docs: György Kepes: Interthinking Art + Science
György Kepes. Interthinking Art + Science · Jul 8, 2024
Revisiting the Classics: When Harry Met Sally
When Harry Met Sally... (1989) · Jun 28, 2024
Revisiting the Classics: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) · Jun 10, 2024
CWC Docs: Last Things
Last Things (2023) · Jun 2, 2024
CWC Global: Polite Society
Polite Society (2023) · May 27, 2024
CWC Docs: Stonebreakers
The Stonebreakers (2021) · May 22, 2024
Revisiting the Classics: Still Film
Still Film (2023) · May 20, 2024
Revisiting the Classics: Paris Is Burning
Paris Is Burning (1991) · May 15, 2024
CWC Global: Corazón Azul
Blue Heart (2021) · May 6, 2024
Black Hollywood: They Cloned Tyrone
They Cloned Tyrone (2023) · Apr 29, 2024
Revisiting the Classics: Cane Fire
Cane Fire (2020) · Apr 15, 2024
I Love This Film: Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) · Apr 10, 2024
CWC Docs: Feels Good Man
Feels Good Man (2020) · Mar 29, 2024
Revisiting the Classics: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) · Mar 25, 2024
Lamya's Poem
Lamya's Poem (2021) · Feb 27, 2024
CWC Global: Whale Rider
Whale Rider (2003) · Feb 23, 2024
Big Screen: TÁR
TÁR (2022) · Oct 5, 2023
Big Screen: Gaslight
Gaslight (1944) · Sep 17, 2023
Black Hollywood: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (2022) · Sep 12, 2023
Big Screen: Encanto
Encanto (2021) · Aug 30, 2023
CWC Docs: Partners in Crime
Partners in Crime (2014) · Aug 24, 2023
Big Screen: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) · Aug 20, 2023
CWC Docs: A Thousand Cuts
A Thousand Cuts (2020) · Aug 17, 2023
Does Your House Have Lions
Does Your House Have Lions (2021) · Aug 16, 2023
Regeneration: Spotlight on Dorothy Dandridge
Carmen Jones (1954) · Jul 26, 2023
Our River...Our Sky: Iraq 20 Years After the Invasion
Our River... Our Sky (2023) · Jul 24, 2023
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) · Jul 4, 2023
The First Rainbow Coalition
The First Rainbow Coalition (2019) · Jun 28, 2023
Black Hollywood: The Woman King
The Woman King (2022) · Jun 22, 2023
Autumn Beat
Autumn Beat (2022) · May 17, 2023
Big Screen: Now Voyager
Now, Voyager (1942) · May 3, 2023
Altiplano
Altiplano (2018) · Apr 26, 2023
Big Screen: Wakanda Forever and Indigenous Worldbuilding
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) · Mar 29, 2023
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022) · Mar 22, 2023
Satyajit Ray: The Hero
The Hero (1966) · Mar 7, 2023
Satyajit Ray: The Golden Fortress
The Golden Fortress (1974) · Mar 1, 2023
Script to Screen: Booksmart
Booksmart (2019) · Sep 21, 2022
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018) · Jul 13, 2022
Murder in Paris: The Assassination of Dulcie September
Murder in Paris (2021) · Jul 10, 2022
Script to Screen: Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park (1993) · Jul 3, 2022
Global TV: Scenes From A Marriage
Scenes from a Marriage (1974) · Jun 21, 2022
Manzanar Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust
Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust (2021) · May 25, 2022
Death In Venice
Death in Venice (1971) · May 11, 2022
Script to Screen: Captain America
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) · Apr 28, 2022
Script to Screen: Dune
Dune (2021) · Mar 3, 2022
Script to Screen: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) · Dec 9, 2021
Borders: John Ware Reclaimed
John Ware Reclaimed (2020) · Jun 16, 2021
Borders: Char...No Man's Island
Char... the No Man's Island (2012) · Jun 11, 2021
40 Years A Prisoner with Mike Africa Jr.
40 Years a Prisoner (2020) · Jun 8, 2021
Barry: Script to Screen
Barry (2016) · Jun 6, 2021
Thirteen: Script to Screen
Thirteen (2003) · Jun 3, 2021
The Babushkas of Chernobyl: CWC Docs
The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015) · May 31, 2021
Borders: El Norte
El Norte (1983) · May 3, 2021
Gather - Discussion of Documentary
Gather (2020) · Apr 26, 2021
Three Chords and a Lie
Three Chords and a Lie (2020) · Mar 3, 2021
Subversives: Go Fish
Go Fish (1994) · Feb 16, 2021
Subversives: Salt of the Earth
Salt of the Earth (1954) · Feb 8, 2021
The Diary of a Teenage Girl: Script to Screen
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) · Feb 5, 2021
The Big Short: Script to Screen
The Big Short (2015) · Feb 1, 2021
Subversives: The Love Witch
The Love Witch (2016) · Jan 4, 2021
Subversives: Blood Quantum
Blood Quantum (2019) · Dec 17, 2020
Birds of Prey: Script to Screen
Subversives: The Great Dictator
The Great Dictator (1940) · Dec 2, 2020
Women of The Gulag
Women of the Gulag (2017) · Nov 27, 2020
Subversives: Sorry to Bother You with Boots Riley
Sorry to Bother You (2018) · Nov 22, 2020
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020) · Nov 20, 2020
Subversives: Parasite
Parasite (2019) · Nov 9, 2020
Picture A Scientist with Sharon Shattuck and Ian Cheney
Picture a Scientist (2020) · Oct 22, 2020
And She Could Be Next - Discussion with Grace Lee and Marjan Safinia
And She Could Be Next (2020) · Aug 18, 2020
Zombieland: Script to Screen
Zombieland (2009) · Jul 30, 2020
The Disaster Artist: Script to Screen
The Disaster Artist (2017) · Jul 6, 2020
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018) · Mar 31, 2020
¡Las Sandinistas! Director Jenny Murray
¡Las Sandinistas! (2018) · Mar 26, 2020
Toy Story 4: Script to Screen
Toy Story 4 (2019) · Mar 22, 2020
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Script to Screen
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) · Feb 13, 2020
Special Effects: Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice (1988) · Jan 2, 2020
Meet John Doe Discussion with Victoria Riskin
Meet John Doe (1941) · Dec 31, 2019
Bombshell: Script to Screen
Bombshell (2019) · Dec 19, 2019
Special Effects: Russian Doll
Russian Doll (2001) · Dec 12, 2019
Special Effects: They Shall Not Grow Old
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) · Dec 12, 2019
People's Republic of Desire with Hao Wu
People's Republic of Desire (2018) · Nov 28, 2019
Knock Down the House with Filmmaker Sarah Olsen
Knock Down the House (2019) · Nov 21, 2019
This is Not a Film - Exploration of Jafar Panahi’s Documentary
This Is Not a Film (2011) · Nov 21, 2019
Special Effects: The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
The Dark Crystal (1982) · Nov 20, 2019
Special Effects: The Wizard Of Oz
The Wizard of Oz (1939) · Nov 19, 2019
Special Effects: Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) · Nov 12, 2019
Racism in German and American Cinema of the Twenties: From The Ancient Law to The Jazz Singer with Charles Musser - Holocaust Living History Workshop
The Jazz Singer (1927) · Nov 11, 2019
Racism in German and American Cinema of the Twenties: From The Ancient Law to The Jazz Singer with Charles Musser - Holocaust Living History Workshop
The Ancient Law (1923) · Nov 11, 2019
Avengers: Endgame - Script to Screen
Avengers: Endgame (2019) · Nov 5, 2019
Crystal Voyager Discussion
Crystal Voyager (1973) · Jul 25, 2019
New Waves: Memories of Underdevelopment
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) · Jul 22, 2019
Star Trek - Script to Screen
Star Trek (2009) · Jul 14, 2019
New Waves: Red Sorghum
Red Sorghum (1988) · Jul 6, 2019
Gulabi Gang Director Nishtha Jain
Gulabi Gang (2012) · Jul 4, 2019
New Waves: Hiroshima Mon Amour
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) · Jul 1, 2019
Shoah: Four Sisters
Shoah: Four Sisters (2018) · Jun 25, 2019
Blade Runner 2019: Did Life Imitate Art?
Blade Runner (1982) · May 28, 2019
Beatles Revolutions - Across the Universe
Across the Universe (2007) · Apr 30, 2019
Point of No Return Co-directors Quinn Kanaly and Noel Dockstader
Point of No Return (2018) · Apr 22, 2019
Beatles Revolutions - Yellow Submarine
Yellow Submarine (1968) · Apr 8, 2019
Beatles Revolutions - I Wanna Hold Your Hand
I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) · Mar 18, 2019
A Quiet Place - Script to Screen
A Quiet Place (2018) · Mar 7, 2019
Beatles Revolutions - A Hard Day's Night
A Hard Day's Night (1964) · Feb 21, 2019
Beatles Revolutions - Let It Be
Let It Be (1970) · Feb 19, 2019
First Man - Script to Screen
First Man (2018) · Jan 2, 2019
Frankenstein: Afterlives - Flesh for Frankenstein
Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) · Jan 2, 2019
Frankenstein: Afterlives - Spirit of the Beehive
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) · Dec 27, 2018
Frankenstein: Afterlives - Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley (2017) · Dec 24, 2018
Frankenstein: Afterlives - Bride of Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein (1935) · Dec 24, 2018
In The Last Days of the City Director Tamer El Said
In the Last Days of the City (2016) · Dec 21, 2018
Leave No Trace - Script to Screen
Leave No Trace (2018) · Dec 20, 2018
RBG Filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen
RBG (2018) · Dec 19, 2018
The Sound of Music: Global Longevity and Appeal
The Sound of Music (1965) · Dec 18, 2018
Royal Tenenbaums with Gwyneth Paltrow - Script to Screen
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) · Aug 20, 2018
The Adventures of Prince Achmed with Cultural Historian Marina Warner
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) · Jul 23, 2018
Life After The Fall - Storytelling from Iraq
Life After The Fall (2008) · Jul 17, 2018
Amar Akbar Anthony
Amar Akbar Anthony (1977) · Jul 12, 2018
Zama and Other Films by Lucrecia Martel
Zama (2017) · Jul 5, 2018
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley with Bambi Haggins - Women in Comedy
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley (2013) · Jul 3, 2018
I Tonya - Script to Screen
I, Tonya (2017) · Jun 27, 2018
Drop Dead Gorgeous with Mindy Sterling - Women in Comedy
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) · Jun 27, 2018
Shakespeare on Film: Chimes At Midnight Orson Welles
Chimes at Midnight (1965) · Jun 4, 2018
She's The Man - Script to Screen Shakespeare on Film
She's the Man (2006) · May 28, 2018
Score - Film Music
Score: A Film Music Documentary (2017) · May 21, 2018
Shakespeare on Film: Hamlet
Hamlet (1948) · May 21, 2018
Shakespeare on Film: Haider
Haider (2014) · May 14, 2018
Gabriel Over The White House
Gabriel Over the White House (1933) · May 14, 2018
Shakespeare on Film: Macbeth
Macbeth (2015) · May 7, 2018
14: Dred Scott Wong Kim Ark and Vanessa Lopez
14: Dred Scott, Wong Kim Ark and Vanessa Lopez (2014) · May 7, 2018
Get Out - Script to Screen
Get Out (2017) · Apr 3, 2018
The Big Sick - Script to Screen
The Big Sick (2017) · Apr 2, 2018
The Shape Of Water - Script to Screen
The Shape of Water (2017) · Feb 26, 2018
Darkest Hour - Script to Screen
Darkest Hour (2017) · Feb 19, 2018
National Bird Director and Producer Sonia Kennebeck
National Bird (2016) · Feb 19, 2018
Fury - Hollywood Berlin
Fury (1936) · Feb 12, 2018
Some Like It Hot - Hollywood Berlin
Some Like It Hot (1959) · Feb 5, 2018
To Be Or Not To Be - Hollywood Berlin
To Be or Not to Be (1942) · Dec 25, 2017
Nosferatu with Werner Herzog - Hollywood Berlin
Nosferatu (1922) · Dec 18, 2017
Nosferatu with Werner Herzog - Hollywood Berlin
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) · Dec 18, 2017
Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen - Trans Media
Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen (2008) · Jul 31, 2017
Raising Zoey - Trans Media
Raising Zoey (2016) · Jul 24, 2017
La La Land - Script to Screen
La La Land (2016) · Jul 10, 2017
Cities of Sleep with Shaunak Sen
Cities of Sleep (2015) · May 29, 2017
Thank You For Playing with David Osit
Thank You for Playing (2015) · May 22, 2017
Expanded Hitchcock: The Birds
The Birds (1963) · May 15, 2017
Expanded Hitchcock: Rebecca
Rebecca (1940) · Apr 11, 2017
Expanded Hitchcock: Vertigo
Vertigo (1958) · Apr 4, 2017
Last Aristocrats with Kenneth Pai and Michael Berry
The Last Aristocrats (1989) · Mar 20, 2017
Hidden Figures - Script to Screen
Hidden Figures (2016) · Mar 13, 2017
Arrival - Script to Screen
Arrival (2016) · Mar 6, 2017
7 Islands and a Metro with Director Madhusree Dutta
Seven Islands and a Metro (2006) · Feb 27, 2017
Mr. Six and Worldwide Distribution of Chinese Cinema
Mr. Six (2015) · Jan 9, 2017
All The Way - Script to Screen
All the Way (2016) · Jan 3, 2017
Under the Shadow and Global Issues of Financing and Distribution
Under the Shadow (2016) · Jan 2, 2017
O.J.: Made in America with Director Ezra Edelman
O.J.: Made in America (2016) · Dec 26, 2016
La Revolucion de los Alcatraces
Eufrosina’s Revolution (2012) · Aug 1, 2016
Beautiful Duckling Screenwriter Chang Yung-hsiang
Beautiful Duckling (1965) · Jul 11, 2016
Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Script to Screen
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) · Jul 4, 2016
CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap Discussion
Code: Debugging the Gender Gap (2016) · Jul 4, 2016
Jaws - Script to Screen
Jaws (1975) · Jun 27, 2016
Still Alice - Focus On: Humanities and the Brain
Still Alice (2014) · Jun 13, 2016
Spotlight - Script to Screen
Spotlight (2015) · Apr 4, 2016
The Look of Silence - Social Impact Cinema
The Look of Silence (2014) · Mar 21, 2016
Marwencol - Focus On: The Humanities and the Brain
Marwencol (2010) · Mar 7, 2016
Niagara with Jacqueline Rose
Niagara (1953) · Feb 8, 2016
The Dark Side of the Ocean with Mark Romanov
The Dark Side of the Ocean (2015) · Dec 21, 2015
Trumbo - Script to Screen
Trumbo (2015) · Dec 14, 2015
American Beauty with Alan Ball - Script to Screen
American Beauty (1999) · Dec 7, 2015
A Walk Among the Tombstones - Script to Screen
A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) · Oct 12, 2015
Blade Runner - Inside Perspectives: Neo Noir and the Contemporary City
Blade Runner (1982) · Sep 11, 2015
Occupy The Farm - Focus On: Social Issues in Modern Cinema
Occupy the Farm (2014) · Jul 20, 2015
Collateral - Inside Perspectives: Neo Noir and the Contemporary City
Collateral (2004) · Jul 6, 2015
Inside Perspectives - Future of the Past - Out of Print
Out of Print (2013) · Jun 29, 2015
Focus On - The Anthropocene - Racing Extinction
Racing Extinction (2015) · Jun 22, 2015
Focus On - The Anthropocene - Journey of the Universe
Journey of the Universe (2011) · Jun 15, 2015
Dreaming Palestine - The Time That Remains
The Time That Remains (2009) · Jun 8, 2015
Dreaming Palestine - My Love Awaits Me By The Sea
My Love Awaits Me By the Sea (2013) · Jun 1, 2015
The Cherokee Word for Water with Charlie Soap and Kristina Kiehl
The Cherokee Word for Water (2013) · Apr 27, 2015
An Evening with Destin Daniel Cretton -- Point Loma Writer’s Symposium by the Sea 2015
The Glass Castle (2017) · Apr 13, 2015
Whiplash - Script to Screen
Whiplash (2014) · Apr 13, 2015
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (2014) · Apr 7, 2015
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Script to Screen
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) · Mar 16, 2015
The Theory of Everything - Script to Screen
The Theory of Everything (2014) · Feb 2, 2015
Neighbors - Focus On: The Editor
Neighbors (2014) · Feb 2, 2015
500 Days of Summer - Script to Screen
(500) Days of Summer (2009) · Jan 5, 2015
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - Inside Perspectives
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) · Dec 8, 2014
Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets - Inside Perspectives
Mean Streets (1973) · Dec 1, 2014
Draft Day - A Conversation with Ivan Reitman
Draft Day (2014) · Jul 28, 2014
Brave Miss World Discussion
Brave Miss World (2013) · Jul 7, 2014
The Fault in Our Stars - Script to Screen
The Fault in Our Stars (2014) · Jul 7, 2014
12 Years A Slave - Script to Screen
12 Years a Slave (2013) · May 12, 2014
Nebraska - Script to Screen
Nebraska (2013) · May 5, 2014
Malcolm McDowell - Script to Screen
A Clockwork Orange (1971) · Mar 17, 2014
Risky Business - Script to Screen
Risky Business (1983) · Feb 10, 2014
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (2012) · Jan 13, 2014
The Devil Wears Prada - Script to Screen
The Devil Wears Prada (2006) · Jan 13, 2014
Script to Screen on Location: Silver Linings Playbook
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) · Dec 9, 2013
Field of Dreams - Script to Screen
Field of Dreams (1989) · Oct 7, 2013
Script to Screen on Location: Argo
Argo (2012) · Sep 9, 2013
Rain Man - Script to Screen
Rain Man (1988) · Aug 26, 2013
Hard Candy - Script to Screen
Hard Candy (2005) · Aug 19, 2013
Sleepless in Seattle - Script to Screen
Sleepless in Seattle (1993) · Aug 12, 2013
10 Things I Hate About You - Script to Screen
10 Things I Hate About You (1999) · Mar 18, 2013
Dead Poets Society - Script to Screen
Dead Poets Society (1989) · Mar 11, 2013
Back to the Future - Script to Screen
Back to the Future (1985) · Jan 28, 2013
Back to the Future - Script to Screen
Back to the Future Part II (1989) · Jan 28, 2013
Back to the Future - Script to Screen
Back to the Future Part III (1990) · Jan 28, 2013
Cinema Diaspora: A Panel Discussion with Mira Nair and UC Davis Faculty
Monsoon Wedding (2001) · Sep 17, 2007
Cinema Diaspora: A Panel Discussion with Mira Nair and UC Davis Faculty
The Namesake (2006) · Sep 17, 2007
Cinema Diaspora: A Panel Discussion with Mira Nair and UC Davis Faculty
Salaam Bombay! (1988) · Sep 17, 2007