Travel through time and imagination with Mirai, the hit 2018 Japanese film from acclaimed director Mamoru Hosoda, as we kick off our Fall 2025 Moonlight Movie Nights series in partnership with the Japanese Film Festival of Arizona, The Sidney Poitier New American Film School. Presented by the ASU MIX Center Community Action Board!
Join us for the kickoff to ASU Library's Banned Book Week in partnership with Project Humanities. We will be screening Banned Together followed by a short community discussion regarding the film. Banned Together follows three students as they fight to reinstate 97 books suddenly pulled from their school libraries. As they evolve from local to national activists, the film reveals the forces behind the accelerating wave of book bans in the United States and the ongoing challenges of educators and librarians.
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All eyes are on the ocean this summer as “Jaws” celebrates its 50th anniversary. But after film director Steven Spielberg made everyone afraid to go into the water (and invented the modern blockbuster), he took us to the skies in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” a film about an ordinary suburban dad making contact with extraterrestrial life. Join The Poitier Film School’s founding director Cheryl Boone Isaacs for a special screening of the sci-fi spectacle that kickstarted her storied career in film marketing and confirmed Spielberg to be a generational talent.
Join The Sidney Poitier New American Film School for a free, interactive lecture on dramatic structures in storytelling that will have you energized and excited to tackle your next creative project. From ancient folklore to the modern television series, a good story well-told has the power to captivate the hearts and imaginations of any audience. But how does a storyteller plot a compelling narrative from start to finish?
In 1931, when filming wrapped for the day on Universal Horror’s Bela Lugosi “Dracula,” a second film crew used the same sets to shoot another version of the film at night - in Spanish. The Sidney Poitier New American Film School partners with Milagro Cinemas for a special screening of this rarely exhibited gem of early Latino cinema from a short-lived era when Hollywood catered to non-English-speaking audiences before the popularization of subtitles. Poitier Film School deputy director and Emmy Award-winning writer Peter Murrieta (“Wizards of Waverly Place,” “Mr.
You are invited to attend The Sidney Poitier New American Film School LA Summer Film Camp at the ASU California Center. Guided by Poitier Film School faculty in the heart of the entertainment industry, high school students will be introduced to the fundamentals of filmmaking from script to screen. Students will learn the basics of storytelling and scriptwriting, hands-on camera techniques, producing, directing, editing and post-production, culminating in screening of a few select films made by the campers.
Meet the creators of ‘The Lego Movie,’ ‘Animaniacs,’ ‘Robot Chicken,’ Tim Burton's 'Corpse Bride' and more animated favorites!
Join us for a special screening of Paris Is Burning, the groundbreaking 1990 documentary directed by Jennie Livingston. Hosted by the Herberger Institute Student Engagement team, this edition of our monthly Movie Night in Los Angeles will take place at the ASU California Center Grand.
Step into the mind of Riley as we bring Pixar’s Inside Out to the big screen on Friday, May 9! Experience the journey of Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust in this heartfelt film about emotions, change, and growing up.
When: May 9 at 6:30 p.m.
Where: ASU MIX Center | 50 N. Centennial Way, Mesa, AZ
What to Bring: Blankets, chairs and all the emotions!