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From moving pictures to an established industry, film and media have the power to capture our most powerful stories. Learn more about how it has evolved and helped tell diverse stories.

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A before photo of the Tsurutani family at Manzanar by Ansel Adams and an after photo of Bruce, now 76, by Paul Kitakagi Jr.
Paul Kitagaki, Jr. excavates the almost-forgotten stories of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II. His photographs and oral histories are an attempt to keep the painful, but important memories of that troubled past alive.
Monica Lago-Kaytis, CEO and Producer at Frogbot films, speaks with filmmaking students | Cristina Galvan, Image from "Fine Cut Student Workshop"
Film students are often faced with doubts and negativity. The first ever Fine Cut Student Workshop created a safe environment for students and mentors to give and receive guidance.
Fine Cut 20 seasons
For twenty seasons, "Fine Cut" has been the launchpad for the dreams of many young filmmakers. Learn more about its beginnings and its relevance, especially today.
Los Angeles Skyline, 2019. | Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin
There is a tranquility that radiates throughout the city after-hours that can be both beautiful and lonely. Places that are normally bustling with people stand uninhabited, creating a surreal landscape that most never see.
Fine Cut season 21
KCET’s annual “Fine Cut Festival of Films” is now accepting submissions. Get a chance to see your film on television this fall and win package prizes in support of your filmmaking journey.
Susie Keef Smith and Lula Mae Graves on the Bradshaw Trail, a historic gold road through the California desert, 1930.| Warner Graves Collection.
In the 1920s, armed with a .38 revolver and a large format camera, Susie Smith and her cousin Lula Mae Graves set out to photograph the last of the prospectors, burro packers and stage stops in the remote desert to the east.
A portion of the "Detroit Industry" murals by Diego Rivera that adorn the walls of Rivera Court at the Detroit Institute of Arts | ashleystreet/Creative Commons
How are ideas about design, art, the global economy and urban planning tied to the concept of work? UCLA professors Willem Henri Lucas, Catherine Opie, Alfred Osborne and Abel Valenzuela discuss "What is Work?"
Buildings just east of the Bowtie are occupied by media arts businesses and artists. Had a proposed development plan from the late-1990s succeeded, a much larger “LA Media Tech Center” would  have transformed the former rail yard | Photo by Bear Guerra
Urban ecologist Kat Superfisky describes L.A. as a “come-one, come-all kind of a place,” where we do a great job of living amongst one another. But the next step will be to figure out how our public spaces, including the Bowtie, can reflect that.
Still from Creme Caramel: A woman in a room with many lamps looks down at a creme caramel that has eyes.
CANADA creates music videos for a diverse array of artists, from Beck to Hinds, Rosalía and The Charlatans.
Bruce Brown at work | Bruce Brown Films, LLC
“The Endless Summer” grew from a simple idea into a cultural product, a lifestyle available to anyone with the means for a ticket. Filmmaker Bruce Brown set out to sell a documentary film about surfing and, in doing so, he inadvertently sold a dream.
Sketch of the Ridge with Laguna Peak Tracking Station, 2016. Marker and pencil on paper | Jena Lee
What do art, social justice and philosophy have to do with freedom? UCLA professors Andrea Fraser, Lauren McCarthy, Ananya Roy, and Seana Shiffrin ponder "What is Freedom?"
The old roundhouse at the southern tip of the Bowtie is a popular proving ground for local street artists | Photo by Bear Guerra
The Bowtie is a popular place to find refuge in. That could change in the not-too-distant future, once the site is cleaned up and landscaped.
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