UCLA alumna Catherine Hardwicke says that her UCLA experience is
the gift that keeps on giving. Without a little help from her
friends, she couldn’t have made her directorial debut, a film
that cost less than $2 million.

Behind that calm, not too cool persona, Ice Cube is a
hardworking business man.
The one-time NWA lead rapper has become an enterprising
multi-media star who attracts audiences, actors, and, most of all,
investors.

On Monday night, the Discovery Channel taped the 65th episode of
“Berman and Berman” in front of Royce Hall, with a
student audience and the topic, “The Naked Truth.”
The hosts were the co-founders of the UCLA Female Sexual
Medicine Center, doctors Jennifer and Laura Berman (yes,
they’re sisters).

The full-length documentary film is that elusive Hollywood art
form which from time to time rises to the mainstream with releases
such as “Bowling for Columbine” and “The Kid
Stays in the Pictures.”
This weekend, through the School of Theatre, Film, Television
and Digital Media, UCLA students have the opportunity to gain
first-hand knowledge of what goes into making a documentary from
Academy Award winning documentarian Freida Lee Mock, and it’s
free.