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Film and Media Arts

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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Author Catherine Ryan Hyde helps Catherine Trujillo document this visit through El Camino Real with photographs of the coastal place she calls home.
Ray Bradbury holds an image of himself during an event honoring the author with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame April 1, 2002 in Hollywood. | Photo: Vince Bucci/Getty Images
A Ventura filmmaker and artist is making a documentary on the man who had creative ADHD and forty-eight hours in his day.
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An image doesn't always tell the whole story. To find out what really happens in front of -- and behind -- the lens, Artbound asked a few of the Dirty Lights Exhibit photographers to select one of their photos from the exhibit, and give us a story to g...
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Photographer Sky Bergman sets out to marry photography and the life stories of octogenarians (and older) with the launch of Lives Well Lived.
The Sturt Haaga Gallery at the Descanso Gardens transforms more than just the historic La Cañada grounds; it expands the way audiences encounter and understand contemporary art.
Professional skateboarder-turned-filmmaker Stacy Peralta revisits his past in the new documentary "Bones Brigade: An Autobiography."
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This video contest will spread the idea of a Solar Los Angeles.
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The collective began in 1970 with the aim to accurately portray and raise awareness of Asian Americans and their place in history through media arts.
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Toyo Miyatake and his photography studio has captured and told the story of Little Tokyo and surrounding Japanese American community for decades.
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In the early 20th century, marriage through picture brides was the only way for issei Japanese pioneers in the U.S. to start a family.
The first thing you notice as a Singaporean arriving to Los Angeles: that a salad or a sandwich doesn't constitute a meal.
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Several recent cinematic works reveal an astonishing depth of riches in the stories of the people whose lives are staked out along the Salton Sea.
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