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Luna Lens Film festival creates community for Asian female filmmakers

3 weeks ago | uscannenbergmedia.com | Amanda Le |Sophia Zhang |Aaron Ogawa

From May 3 to 4, senior Avana Wang, in collaboration with masters student Yuli Li and senior Marissa Ding, hosted the Luna Lens Film Festival at SCA 112. As Wang’s senior thesis for her Media Arts and Practice minor, the event spanned multiple days, including a workshop on April 18 and a weekend of screenings in May. Fourteen films were screened during the festival, including five student-submitted shorts.
In Berlin, Purim represents Jewish joy and vigilance

1 month ago | uscannenbergmedia.com | Grace Galante |Benjamin Royer

BERLIN — For Jewish partygoers in Berlin, Purim is more than an opportunity to express their faith. The Purim celebration at Karneval de Purim at Renate, a club in Berlin’s Friedrichshain neighborhood, offered Israeli Mai Yaary a chance to freely celebrate for the first time since Oct. 7, 2023. “I haven’t celebrated Purim for three years, and the first time I’m celebrating is here,” said Yaary.
Meghan Anand named 2025 USC commencement student speaker

1 month ago | uscannenbergmedia.com | Matthew Royer

USC announced business administration student Meghan Anand as its 2025 commencement student speaker Monday morning. Anand will give the student address at the commencement ceremony May 15 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. A committee of faculty, staff and student representatives selected Anand after they reviewed applications and conducted interviews with students who applied. The committee then made its final recommendation to Provost Andrew T. Guzman, who made the final decision.
From Toy Stores to Gorillas

1 month ago | uscannenbergmedia.com | Ethan Huang |Sam Bitman |Enzo Luna

On the last Wednesday show of the semester, we discuss Denim Day, we look at the impact of tariffs on toy stores, and we ask if 100 USC students can defeat a gorilla. All that and more, From Where We Are.
The federal government restores legal status for thousands of international students, for now

1 month ago | uscannenbergmedia.com | Payton May

The U.S. Department of Justice announced April 25 that the Trump administration would reinstate the status of international students who’ve recently had their visas terminated. As of last week, the visas of at least 1,800 international students at colleges and universities around the country had been revoked, according to Inside Higher Ed.These abrupt terminations came as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration and alleged antisemitism on college campuses.
Skate of Thrones | Kings come out flat against hungry Oilers, lose third straight

1 month ago | uscannenbergmedia.com | Kasey Kazliner

LOS ANGELES — No matter how good Darcy Kuemper is, sometimes the Vezina finalist just can’t bail the LA Kings out of tough games. In Game 5 of Round 1, after the Kings lost two pivotal games in Edmonton, LA didn’t put up much of a fight in possibly its most important game of the season to this point. Typically a lights-out team at home, the lights just seemed too bright for Jim Hiller’s group.
From Strikes to Deepfakes

1 month ago | uscannenbergmedia.com | Amy Lopez |Isaac Vargas

On today’s show, we tune into a local strike in Los Angeles, and uncover a bill with the potential to reduce deepfakes. All that and more, From Where We Are.
Congress passes the Take It Down Act

1 month ago | uscannenbergmedia.com | David Rendon

This week, Congress passed what’s known as the Take It Down Act. This bill would make it illegal to post real and fake sexually explicit imagery online of a person without their consent. The full title of the bill is rather long: The Tool to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks bill. The bill would require social media and other websites to take down the content within 48 hours of the victim’s request.
Is a matcha shortage coming?

2 months ago | uscannenbergmedia.com | Andie Kirby |Annabelle Le Roux

Talk of a matcha shortage is in the air. The ground-up green tea powder comes from trees native to Japan and has taken the U.S. by storm in the last decade. Whether you prefer it in a creamy latte, mixed with lemonade, or even as a fancy, barista-brewed tonic, matcha has remained popular as a “healthier” caffeine alternative to coffee. It has antioxidant properties and amino acids associated with reducing stress, improving moods, and helping with sleep hygiene.
Sewell Chan, recently ousted CJR editor, to join USC Annenberg as senior fellow

2 months ago | uscannenbergmedia.com | Hali Mecklin

Journalist Sewell Chan has been named senior fellow at the USC Annenberg School Center for Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP), according to USC. This news comes after Chan was abruptly fired from the Columbia Journalism Review on April 18 following staff complaints about his behavior. Chan joined CJR as executive editor in September of last year, and has previously served as an editor at the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and most recently the Texas Tribune.