She-Wolf Pack
Click on the image below to watch a film by the students from the 2023 Film and Media
Studies Lift-Off class.
Stone to Stage: The Making of A Medusa Thread
Click on the the image below to watch a film by the students from the 2022 Film and Media
Studies LAUNCH PAD class.
SHANGHAI : Zoom Theater
Click on the image below to watch a film by the students from the 2021 Film and Media Studies
LAUNCH PAD class.
WHAT MARTHA DID : The Life of a Preview Production
Click on the image below to watch a film by students from the Department of Film and Media Studies.
(2019)
It Takes A Village: The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963
Film produced by students from the Department of Film and Media Studies.
(2019)
LIFT OFF: Behind the Scenes of LAUNCH PAD was created in collaboration with the Department of Film and Media Studies by a film crew of 16 UC Santa Barbara students. After a "Preview Production” of its own at UCSB’s Pollock Theater in June 2015, LIFT OFF premiered as an Official Selection of the 2016 Santa Barbara International Film Festival! Please enjoy the full version of the film below. (Directed by Chris Jenkins; Music by Randy Tico; Supervising Producer: Manuel Sherbakoff)
Following the success of LIFT OFF, a second documentary, Finding the Funk, was created by another class of UCSB students and also directed by Chris Jenkins. The film goes behind the scenes of the 2016 LAUNCH PAD Preview Production of We Want the Funk, a rustbelt lullaby on the one! by Idris Goodwin. Finding the Funk premiered at UCSB’s Pollock Theater in June 2016 and is available to watch in full below. (Directed by Chris Jenkins; Music by Randy Tico)
Summer Course Spotlight: LAUNCH PAD
UCSB Summer Sessions created a documentary about the LAUNCH PAD Summer Series during its inaugural 2014 run. Please enjoy that short film below. For more information about our Summer Reading Series please visit this page.