1st Annual “All Thriller No Filler” University of San Francisco Student Film Festival Not pretentious enough for the SF Film Festival? Come to the 1st Annual “All Thriller No Filler” USF Student Film Festival on Thursday, May 7th from 7-9:30pm in Xavier Chapel. The Festival will feature only the best that student filmmakers have [...]

Brain child of USFCA Philosophy, Media Studies and Film students Bharat Sharma, David Burgis and Sky Madden will be released Monday March 16th on campus channel 33 and on HD throughblip.com/digitalintimacy

Cary Fukunaga makes an incredible debut with his first film, “Sin Nombre,” where he focuses on the topic of illegal immigration. Dealing with what can be a sticky topic at times, this film forces the viewer to drop his/ her preconceived notions and participate in the thrill, danger, emotions, hopes and fears of the characters [...]

The documentary "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29" follows an exciting game in Ivy League history with original footage and interviews with the players.

THE BLACK ROCK (Dir. Kevin Epps, US 2009, 60m) By Kevin Kunze The Black Rock tells the untold story about the black inmates of Alcatraz and their struggle to survive in a primarily white maximum-security prison. Superbly directed by local filmmaker and activist, Kevin Epps (Straight Outta Hunters Point), the film examines the lives of the few African-American [...]

Scene editor Melissa Baron dishes on her movie guilty pleasure of the season -- the star studded "He's Just Not That Into You."

Acclaimed screenwriter Charlie Kaufman makes his directorial debut with “Synecdoche, New York.” It opens in San Francisco tomorrow Friday, Nov. 7. Kaufman’s previous works “Being John Malkovich” (1999), “Adapation” (2002) and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (2004) have asked audiences to let the hand of existentialism come out of the big screen [...]

A simple nine-act, three-person cast performed Harold Pinter’s 1978 play “Betrayal” on Oct. 29 and 30 at the Presentation theater. Junior James Godbolt directed the short performance which focuses on a love triangle between married couple Robert (Isaac Samuelson) and Emma (Annie Throssell) and their adulterous friend, Jerry (Sam Finger). The first scene opens with [...]