Join for a screening of PBS Artbound's "L.A. Rebellion: A Cinematic Movement" and TFT MFA thesis "Don’t Be Long, Little Bird." This event brings together two films L.A. Rebellion: A Cinematic Movement (2025, 56m) and Don’t Be Long, Little Bird (2025, 23m), to illuminate the lineage between the original L.A. Rebellion filmmakers and contemporary artists continuing that legacy. Together, the films create a dialogue across generations, geographies, and liberation movements.

L.A. Rebellion: A Cinematic Movement:

Directed by TFT alumni Kitty Hu and Bryant Griffin, traces the origins of the L.A. Rebellion movement following the Watts Uprising, when UCLA’s “ethno-communications” initiative opened doors for Black, Asian, Chicano, and Native American filmmakers whose work reshaped American cinema.

Don’t Be Long, Little Bird:

Directed by TFT alumna Reem Jubran as her UCLA MFA thesis film, Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the UCLA TFT FILM Festival: Directors Spotlight, and first Palestinian/USA co‑production, follows a young woman who time-travels to 1930s Palestine to meet her great‑grandmother. The making of the film was featured in PBS Artbound’s documentary as a modern extension of L.A. Rebellion’s ethos, foregrounding how Reem’s fight for voice and representation at UCLA stands on the foundation built by the Black and ethnic students who came before her.