Mike Mapes ’16 won best documentary at the International Youth Film Festival for his film, "I Am Kizito," about a young Rwandan man named Kizito. In January 2014, Mapes visited Rwanda on a Harvard-Westlake...

Eight films made by students who went on the Rwanda trip last year premiered at the Pan African Film Festival Los Angeles Feb. 8 at Rave Cinemas 15 Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza. The festivalset aside...

Applications to be the student directors of next year's Harvard-Westlake Film Festival are now available to all rising seniors. The application consists of five questions and should be emailed to visual...

Producer Debra Martin Chase will speak at the 11th annual Harvard-Westlake Film Festival Friday March 14 at the ArcLight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. Martin Chase's work has focused upon women, tweens,...

Judges selected 25 films to be screened at the 11th annual Harvard-Westlake Film Festival March 14 at the Arclight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. Tickets will be free and will be available at the door of...

In a speech to more than 800 people, including high school filmmakers and students from across the country, Oscar-nominated director Alejandro González Iñárritu stressed that filmmaking should be...

Four films made by Harvard-Westlake students were featured at the Marlborough Film Festival on March 1. “Post Remembrance,” directed by Cosima Elwes ’15, Hana Kateman ’15 and Danielle Stolz...

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu will speak about his experiences in the movie industry as the keynote speaker at the Harvard-Westlake Film Festival on March 15, 2013. Iñárritu became the first...

The Harvard-Westlake Film Festival has selected four of the judges for its March 15 event. Cheri  Gaulke, the Upper School Visual Arts Department Head, said there would be additional judges added later...

By Daniel Rothberg More than 35 students stood dressed in desert garb in the Feldman-Horn Art Center plaza, ready to recreate a segment from the film "Indiana Jones." The scene was filmed as part of...

By Reina Factor The customary pranks played on unsuspecting substitute teachers would not work on these Cinema Studies substitutes.  They had taken time out of their own class schedule to...