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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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The World, Considered: Sharon Lockhart's Watchful Eye
Filmmaker Sharon Lockhart intently interprets the world under her watchful lens.
Morgan Maassen's Color of Creativity and Texture of Ambition
Photographer and Santa Barbara native Morgan Maassen's career in the surf editorial world is on a meteoric rise.
Children have a "Meeting of the Minds" at the Kingsboro Housing Project in Brooklyn in the 1940s. | Photo: Joe Schwartz.
A Camera with a Conscience: Documenting Diversity in America
Atascadero photographer Joe Schwartz, whose 100th birthday coincides with his community's centennial, has dedicated his career to documenting America's have-nots.
'Prison Landscapes' and the Interior World of the Incarcerated
Alyse Emdur explores the hand-crafted murals produced by prison inmates, which show whimsical worlds conjured from the inmates' imaginations.
Meena Nanji: Kenya As Paradise; London As Post-Punk; Los Angeles As Definitely Weird
In England, it was a given that you are miserable, that's just how it is. In L.A., the goal was to be happy and cheerful and nice to people.
Parry Gripp: From Nerf Herder to Meme Master
Santa Barbara musician Parry Gripp is the man behind some of the web's biggest memes.
Sidewalk Stories: The Photography of William Reagh
Since arriving in L.A. in the 1930s, William Reagh captured a sense of the city's humanity during its most vigorous years of growth and urban renewal.
Dispatches From the Border Reporters: The Story of Sergio Haro, 'Zeta Weekly' and the Documentary Film 'Reportero'
Sergio Haro, veteran photojournalist and editor of "Semanario Zeta" is the subject of the documentary film "Reportero."
Waitress Anthropologist Candacy Taylor Goes Beyond 'the Counter'
San Francisco photojournalist Candacy Taylor followed her interest in the social dynamics of traditional female work roles to Twentynine Palms and never looked back. Salons and diners are her subjects of choice.
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Santa Fe Film Festival: Now, Forager
KCET Cinema Series producer Michele Garza is heading over to the Santa Fe Film Festival this week. Learn more about the film "Now, Forager."
Legendary big-wave surfer BuzzyTrent navigates a break. | Bud Browne Film Archives
Surfing's First Filmmaker: Preserving the Legacy of Bud Browne
The legacies of two surfing icons -- big-wave surfer Buzzy Trent and pioneering surf filmmaker Bud Browne -- live on in the form of the Bud Browne Film Archives.
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Audio Q&A: 'Picture Paris' with Julia Louis-Dreyfus & Brad Hall
Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus joined KCET Cinema Series host Pete Hammond for a Q&A after the screening of her new short film "Picture Paris."
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