L.A. REBELLION: A CINEMATIC MOVEMENT

L.A. Rebellion: A Cinematic Movement” – originally premiered as part of PBS SoCal’s ARTBOUND series on Wed., Oct. 18, 2023.

Following the Watts Uprising, UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television enacted affirmative action policies to increase the enrollment of students of color in the film program—a group that had historically been underrepresented in the student population. The “ethno-communications” initiative to recruit students from Black, Asian, Chicano and Native American communities took on a movement of its own, when a critical mass of Black student filmmakers emerged known as the “L.A. Rebellion.” Includes interviews with Ben Caldwell, Larry Clark, Sandy Osawa, Eddie Wong and more. Production Company: Shoes Off Media.

ARTBOUND is supported in part by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture and Creative Recovery LA, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other generous institutional funders.

ABOUT ARTBOUND
ARTBOUND is the award-winning series that captures the spirit of the arts and culture community in Southern California and beyond. The Original series explores and illuminates the cultural issues of our times, providing critical in-depth analysis of how arts and culture affect society. ARTBOUND recognizes the need for access to the arts, arts education and connecting local artists with audiences and in fact, acts as Southern California’s largest stage. Utilizing public media as a space to find quality arts and culture programming, ARTBOUND reveals cultural touchstones that have shaped the fabric of the region’s communities and a nation whose story is indelibly linked to the arts.

About PBS SoCal
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Credits
Writer: Sanjna Bharadwaj
Producer: Kitty Hu, Shannon Sun-Higginson, Carol Paik, & Nic Cha Kim
Executive Producer: Tamara Gould & Angela Boisvert
Associate Producers: Marley Lister
Consulting Producer: Ben Caldwell
Production Manager: Kathy Kasaba
Director of Photography: Gionatan Tecle
Editor: Joshua Guishard
Original Music: Karam Salem

Plays in

LA LIBERATION: VC x EWP

Watch Artbound episodes L.A. REBELLION: A CINEMATIC MOVEMENT and EAST WEST PLAYERS: A HOME ON STAGE, and relive the early moments of Visual Communications and East West Players.