Join us for an evening with Kevin Peter He, the ASU MIX Center’s current Visiting Artist in Residence, as he hosts an open community talkback on his creative practice and current project Passage.
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.
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We are proud to welcome Kevin Peter He as the first Visiting Artist in Residence at the ASU MIX Center. His project PASSAGE inaugurates this new program, which invites leading artists and technologists to create and share groundbreaking immersive work with our community.
"When people cooperate with each other, it brings them closer together." - Mirai
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!
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?
Join us for a work-in-progress presentation of HOW TO GET FREE. Catch a sneak-peak of this ASU Gammage Beyond Broadway 25-26 production (world premiere November, 2025), commissioned and developed by ASU Gammage and the ASU MIX Center.