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Upcoming Pollock Events

The Coastal Media Project 2024 Student Film Premiere
The Coastal Media Project 2024 Student Film Premiere
August 23, 2024
Panic!: Memoria
Panic!: Memoria
October 1, 2024
Javier Umpierrez (sound editor)
Panic!: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Panic!: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
October 12, 2024
Nicholas Baer (author of Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism)
CWC Docs: Move
CWC Docs: Move
October 23, 2024
Lil Buck and Jon Boogz (street dance artists)
CWC Global: Deep6
CWC Global: Deep6
November 4, 2024
Madhuja Mukherjee (filmmaker)
CWC Docs: What These Walls Won't Hold
CWC Docs: What These Walls Won’t Hold
November 7, 2024
Adamu Chan (filmmaker)
Storytelling for the Screen: The Moon and Back
Storytelling for the Screen:
The Moon and Back
November 21, 2024
Leah Bleich (writer/director)
Panic!: FX's The Old Man
Panic!: FX’s The Old Man
November 23, 2024
Jeff Bridges and Amy Brenneman (actors)
Black Hollywood: Nickel Boys
Black Hollywood: Nickel Boys
December 7, 2024
RaMell Ross (filmmaker)
Hero Image still from the production of American comedy-drama series, the Goldbergs. The still features actors Gertrude Berg as Molly Goldberg (center) Robert Harris as Jake Goldberg (right) and an unknown voice actress (left) in the studio when the Goldbergs was a radio show.
Panic!: CBS and the 1950s Blacklist
January 16, 2025
Carol Stabile (author of The Broadcast 41)
Promotional still from a film featured in the conference Archives of Anonymous Labor held by the Carsey-Wolf Center. The image is a close up of an editor cutting a film strip which shows the images of a man and woman kissing.
Archives of Anonymous Labor:
From Farce to Liberation
February 20, 2025
Michelle Baroody and Maggie Hennefeld (curators)
Promotional image for the documentary American Homeboy. The image pictures a man with a tattoo of a face on the top of his head sitting and facing the ground showing off his tattoos on his head and arms. He is wearing a black t-shirt and necklace.
CWC Docs: American Homeboy
March 1, 2025
Jerry Ramirez (documentary subject)
Promotional image for the film Hedwig and the Angry Inch. A posterized and highly stylized image of Hedwig in front of a red background and next to the name Hedwig in a stylized script.
Panic!: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
March 4, 2025
John Cameron Mitchell (writer/director/actor)
CWC Global: Japanese Paper Films
CWC Global: Japanese Paper Films
April 12, 2025
Eric Faden (curator) and Yoko Reikano Kimura and Hikaru Tamaki (musicians)
CWC Global: Captain Volkonogov Escaped
CWC Global: Captain Volkonogov Escaped
April 17, 2025
Natasha Merkulova and Alexey Chupov (filmmakers)
CWC Global: Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
CWC Global: Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams
April 19, 2025
CWC Docs: Facing the Falls
CWC Docs: Facing the Falls
April 22, 2025
Liz Yale Marsh (producer) and West Taylor (mustang wrangler)
Panic!: Swoon (in 35mm)
Panic!: Swoon (in 35mm)
April 29, 2025
Tom Kalin (writer/director)
CWC Docs: Sisters with Transistors
CWC Docs: Sisters with Transistors
May 6, 2025
Suzanne Ciani (musician/documentary subject)
CWC Docs: Sugarcane
CWC Docs: Sugarcane
May 8, 2025
Caitlin Keliiaa (author of Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women’s Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program)
CWC Docs: Wonders of the Wolf
CWC Docs: Wonders of the Wolf
May 13, 2025
Angie Ruiz (filmmaker)
Panic!: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Panic!: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
May 17, 2025
Charles Wolfe (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) and Patrice Petro (Dick Wolf Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center)
Panic!: Social Studies
Panic!: Social Studies
May 20, 2025
Lauren Greenfield (director), Jonathan Gelfond (documentary participant), and Ivy D'Ambrosio (documentary participant)
Panic!: Shut Up & Sing
Panic!: Shut Up & Sing
May 29, 2025
Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck (directors)
Panic!: I Saw the TV Glow
Panic!: I Saw the TV Glow
June 3, 2025
Haley Dahl (Sloppy Jane)
CWC Global: Chronicles of the Absurd
CWC Global: Chronicles of the Absurd
October 2, 2025
Miguel Coyula (filmmaker)
Storytelling for the Screen: One Battle After Another
Storytelling for the Screen:
One Battle After Another
October 4, 2025
Andy Jurgensen (editor)
Connectivity: Familiar Touch
Connectivity: Familiar Touch
October 9, 2025
Sarah Friedland (filmmaker)
Connectivity: Severance
Connectivity: Severance
October 14, 2025
Anna Ouyang Moench (writer)
Connectivity: vulture
Connectivity: vulture
October 16, 2025
Philip Hoffman (filmmaker)
Connectivity: All Light, Everywhere
Connectivity: All Light, Everywhere
October 21, 2025
Theo Anthony (filmmaker)
CWC Global: In Flames
CWC Global: In Flames
November 4, 2025
Zarrar Kahn (filmmaker)
CWC TV: Carol for Another Christmas (in 35mm)
CWC TV: Carol for Another Christmas (in 35mm)
November 20, 2025
Mark Quigley (John H. Mitchell Television Curator, UCLA Film & Television Archive)
CWC Docs: Antidote
CWC Docs: Antidote
December 2, 2025
Vladimir Kara-Murza (documentary participant)

Storytelling for the Screen: HIM

November 6, 2025
/   7:00 PM
with Justin Tipping (filmmaker)
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CWC TV: Carol for Another Christmas (in 35mm)

November 20, 2025
/   7:00 PM
with Mark Quigley (John H. Mitchell Television Curator, UCLA Film & Television Archive)
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Connectivity: Moviegoing and Film Exhibition in Flux

November 22, 2025
/   2:00 PM
with Jason Reitman, Brad Silberling, Maggie Mackay, Jackie Brenneman, and Ross Melnick
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CWC Docs: Antidote

December 2, 2025
/   7:00 PM
with Vladimir Kara-Murza (documentary participant)
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Connectivity: The Last Picture Shows (preview screening)

December 4, 2025
/   7:00 PM
with Rustin Thompson (filmmaker) and Ross Melnick (documentary participant)
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