WHO’S AFRAID OF NATHAN LAW? Directed by Joe Piscatella.
Join Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera, filmmakers and professors with The Sidney Poitier New American Film School at ASU, for a special Hispanic Heritage Month screening of their Sundance Film Festival award-winning film. “The Infiltrators” is a real-life story — half documentary, half dramatic narrative — about a group of young undocumented activists and “Dreamers” who deliberately get detained by Border Patrol to infiltrate a for-profit detention center to help liberate detainees.
November is “Noirvember” at the ASU MIX Center, where The Sidney Poitier New American Film School hosts a pair of stylish and scintillating noir film screenings. First up is the gritty 1948 Jules Dassin classic “The Naked City,” a crime procedural shot on location in New York City that follows a police investigation of a young model’s murder. The series closes out with “Blood Simple,” the 1984 Sundance Film Festival award-winning neo-noir that launched the careers of directors Joel and Ethan Coen and actress Frances McDormand.
Celebrate Spooky Season with a month of spooky movies at the ASU Mix Center, curated by The Sidney Poitier New American Film School. The series kicks off with a Hispanic Heritage Month selection of Guillermo del Toro’s debut 1992 feature “Cronos,” followed by David Cronenberg’s 1979 maternal body horror chiller “The Brood,” the 1962 cult favorite “Carnival of Souls” and George A. Romero’s iconic 1968 classic “Night of the Living Dead.”
Oct. 2: "Cronos." RSVP here.
Join Kiyoko Shibuya, the Oscar-winning VFX artist whose work on “Godzilla Minus One” made it the first non-English-language film to win an Oscar for best visual effects, for an intimate master class and Q&A. The celebrated VFX supervisor joins remotely, live from Japan, to discuss her work. With a career spanning over three decades, Shibuya is recognized as one of the most influential voices in visual effects worldwide, whose work has helped define the landscape of contemporary Japanese blockbuster cinema.
Celebrate Japanese cinema at the ASU MIX Center this September. The Japanese Film Festival Arizona runs Sept. 12-13 with a selection of new and classic Japanese film features and shorts, while The Sidney Poitier New American Film School presents a monthlong series celebrating legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, Thursdays at 6 p.m. Films include:
Sept. 4: "High and Low." RSVP here.
Cinematographer and six-time Oscar nominee Caleb Deschanel kicks off The Sidney Poitier New American Film School’s Fall 25 Speaker Series, offering an intimate tour of his storied career behind the camera. Deschanel’s Hollywood career spans over six decades, his work earning Oscar nominations for films including “The Right Stuff” (1984), “The Passion of the Christ” (2005) and “Never Look Away” (2019). Deschanel has worked with such celebrated directors as Hal Ashby, Barry Levinson, William Friedkin and Mel Gibson.
Bring a blanket, sit on the grass field at Mountain America Stadium and enjoy your favorite films on the big screen under the stars!
Bring a blanket, sit on the grass field at Mountain America Stadium and enjoy your favorite films on the big screen under the stars!