Natalia Bryant gives dad Kobe Bryant a nod with a message on her USC graduation stole. After Jeanie Buss delivers her diploma, A-listers shower her with kudos. May 19, 2025 Mixed in are shots of ...

"You see, you've got a problem with the electricity in your noggin. I know it's confusing, but try not to flip out or anything." This creative short film created by Case Jernigan is a very personal ...

The common intuition that art “expands your mind” may be more literal than it sounds. Art appears to work its cognitive magic by triggering “state openness” — a temporary shift toward a more receptive ...

A new study offers some of the strongest evidence yet that viewing art doesn't just move us emotionally—it changes how we think. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara found that people who viewed artistic ...

In a bold move to invest in new voices in cinema, TDE Films has announced its first-ever Short Film Fund, awarding five emerging filmmakers full production support to bring their narrative short films ...

Sometimes it becomes difficult to think of a story idea even more than the script. And you wait until you are inspired, and nothing hits you. It is where a short film prompt comes in, one line can ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

Apple and the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) are once again betting that the future of filmmaking may not begin on expensive studio sets, but inside a smartphone already sitting in millions of ...

The beauty of film as art is that it contains a variety of forms. It can be a fictional, narrative story that springs out of the imagination of a writer, or a documentary that details historical ...

A new study offers some of the strongest evidence yet that viewing art doesn’t just move us emotionally — it changes how we think. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara found that people who viewed artistic ...