The Arab Film Festival: Best of Shorts Program with Serge Bakalian and Deana Nassar Wednesday, May 17/ 7PM Featuring a selection of six outstanding short films from the Arab Film Festival, this program showcases emergent voices and diverse approaches in cinematic storytelling by contemporary Arab filmmakers and artists. Cosponsored by the MCC and the Center for Middle East Studies. Trans Media: Raising Zoey Actors for Autism: with Director Dante Selections from the AFA Alencastre 2016 Film Festival Thursday, May 4 / 7PM Saturday, April 22 / 2PM Documentary Raising Zoey (dir. Actors for Autism is a non-profit Dante Alencastre, 2016) offers a organization that is dedicated to vibrant and inspiring portrait of the advancement, education, and family, following thirteen-year- training of people on the autistic old Zoey, her mother Ofelia and spectrum, and whose annual film sister Letty as they navigate Zoey’s Trans Media: Still Black: A festival celebrates the work of transition, legal battles against Portrait of Black Transmen its students in the fields of visual discrimination in Zoey’s public The Overnighters with effects, film/TV, animation, and school, and the joys and complexities with Director Kortney Director Jesse Moss video game design. This screening of adolescence. Ryan Ziegler Wednesday, April 5 / 7PM of work from the 2016 festival will Cosponsored by the UCSB RCGSD. Tuesday, May 23 / 7PM Award-winning documentary The be followed by a discussion that This award-winning documentary Overnighters (dir. Jesse Moss, addresses the work of Actors for (dir. Kortney Ryan Ziegler, 2008) 2014) is an intimate portrait Autism and the role of people with explores the world of female to male of economic migration , faith, autism in entertainment industries transgender transition in the African and community in the tiny oil from multiple perspectives. American community, centered boomtown of Williston, North Cosponsored by the Koegel Autism on the stories of six thoughtful, Dakota. Inundated with thousands Center. eloquent, and diverse transmen. of job-seeking arrivals, yet lacking Cosponsored by the UCSB RCGSD. the infrastructure to house them, the town struggles to adapt. Presented in conjunction with Media Fields VI: Ruins, the sixth biennial conference of the Media Fields editorial collective In Utero with Panel Discussion Thursday, April 27 / 7PM In Utero (dir. Kathleen Man Gyllenhaal, 2016) brings together for the first time convincing data Trans Media: Transparent that explain why some individuals with Amy Villarejo face challenges from the start while others thrive. In this film, fetal (Performing and Media origins experts, research scientists, Arts, Cornell University) psychologists, doctors and midwives Saturday, May 6 / 2PM discuss how our experiences in utero Now in its third season, Jill Soloway’s shape our future. award-winning series Transparent (HBO, 2014– ) has been described Trans Media: Tangerine as “revolutionary television” for with Actress Mya Taylor its trans-affirmative approach to Thursday, May 25 / 7PM queerness, trans politics, and gender It’s Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and identity. This screening of two series Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez), a Script to Screen: episodes will be followed by a discussion of transgender emergence transgender sex worker, is back on The Edge of Seventeen as well as Jewishness and queerness the block in this critically-acclaimed with Director/Screenwriter indie comedy, which was shot using within this highly-acclaimed popular modified iPhone 5S cameras. Sin- Kelly Fremon Craig television series. Dee and her best friend Alexandra Thursday, April 13 / 7PM Cosponsored by the UCSB RCGSD (Mya Taylor) embark on a mission The Edge of Seventeen (dir. Kelly to get to the bottom of a scandalous Fremon Craig, 2016) is a coming- rumor, which leads them through of-age movie in the vein of Sixteen various subcultures of Los Angeles, Candles and The Breakfast Club: rendered by the film with uncommon an honest, candid, often hilarious verve and exuberance. look at what it’s like to grow up as Cosponsored by the UCSB RCGSD. a young woman in today’s modern world. Script to Screen: Veep with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tony Hale and Writer/Executive Producer David Mandel Saturday, April 29 / 2PM Veep (HBO, 2012– ) follows Vice President Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and her staff as they attempt to make their mark and leave Trans Media: Free CeCe a lasting legacy without getting with Director Jac Gares tripped up in the day-to-day political Wednesday, May 10 / 7PM games that define Washington. This In 2011 CeCe McDonald—subject screening of two series episodes will of the documentary Free CeCe be followed by a Q&A with actress/ (dir. Jac Gares, 2016)—survived a producer Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actor brutal attack, only to be incarcerated Script to Screen: Tony Hale and writer/executive for defending her life. Her story La La Land with Raging Bull with Makeup producer David Mandel. inspired an international movement Production Designers Artist Michael Westmore advocating for her freedom, and Thursday, April 20 / 7PM since her release she has worked David Wasco and Sandy Based on real events, Raging Bull to critique the prison-industrial Reynolds-Wasco (dir. Scorsese, 1980) tells the story complex and to advocate for reforms Tuesday, May 30 / 7PM of middleweight boxing champion to the criminal justice system. Tickets: Community: $7, Students: $5 Jake LaMotta, whose reputation for Cosponsored by the UCSB RCGSD In La La Land (dir. Damien violence and tenacity are a boon and the IHC’s Community Matters Chazelle, 2016) aspiring actress Mia in the ring, but whose bad temper, series. (Emma Stone) and jazz tmusician extreme jealousy, and obsessive rage Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) traverse destroy his relationship with his wife a decidedly contemporary Los and family. Angeles infused with the spirit of Cosponsored by the AD&A Hollywood’s golden age musicals Museum, UCSB. and rendered in the vivid primary colors of Jacques Demy’s whimsical mid-sixties work, a feat of alchemy for which guests David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco took home this year’s Academy Award for Best Production Design. Cosponsored by the AD&A Museum, UCSB. SPRING 2017 Wednesday, April 5 Saturday, May 6 The Overnighters Trans Media: Transparent with Director Jesse Moss with Amy Villarejo (Performing and Media Arts, Cornell University) Thursday, April 13 Script to Screen: The Edge of Seventeen Wednesday, May 10 with Director/Screenwriter Kelly Fremon Craig Trans Media: Free CeCe with Jac Gares Thursday, April 20 Raging Bull Wednesday, May 17 with Makeup Artist Michael Westmore The Arab Film Festival: Best of Shorts Program with Serge Bakalian and Deana Nassar Saturday, April 22 Actors for Autism: Tuesday, May 23 Selections from the AFA 2016 Film Festival Trans Media: Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen with Director Kortney Ryan Ziegler Thursday, April 27 In Utero Thursday, May 25 with Panel Discussion Trans Media: Tangerine with Actress Mya Taylor Saturday, April 29 Script to Screen: Veep Tuesday, May 30 with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tony Hale Script to Screen: La La Land and Writer/Executive Producer David Mandel with Production Designers David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco Thursday, May 4 Trans Media: Raising Zoey with Director Dante Alencastre.