KUCI: Film School

An interview with Julie Lynn, the producer of 10 Items or Less. Starring Morgan Freeman and Paz Vega, 10 Items or Less follows a Hollywood icon who was once the center of attention. Now, he's forced to consider a role in a small independent movie. While researching for the role, he stumbles into Scarlet, a spitfire check out clerk at a Latino community market. The world famous actor must rely on Scarlet to lead him back to his side of the tracks. This trek through Los Angeles features richly unexpected situations, chance encounters, and personal revelation that neither character could ever have anticipated. Lynn was nominated for an Independent Spirit Axium Producers Award.

An interview with Keven McAlester director of "You're Gonna Miss Me." "Crumb" meets "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" in "You're Gonna Miss Me," which tells the story of counter-culture icon Roky Erickson, whose struggles with LSD, schizophrenia, and the Texas police have made him one of music's legendary tragic figures. He now collects junk mail by the stack and is kept under lock and key by his mother, Evelyn, who refuses him any treatment beyond love, prayer, and a view of psychiatry gleaned from the television show Frasier. In "You're Gonna Miss Me," Erickson becomes the centerpiece of a surreal family struggle and the blank screen onto which those around him project their hopeful futures.

An interview with Greg MacGillivray, director of the film "Hurricane on the Bayou" which was in production when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Told mostly through teenage Cajun Fiddle Artist Amanda Shaw and Cajun guitarist Tab Benoit, this IMAX film tells the story of the environmental damage to the area created by the Mississippi river as it empties into the gulf. Greg MacGillivray began his film career by shooting 8mm black-and-white movies on the campus of Newport Harbor High School. That led to self-employment as the creator of some of the best surfing films of the 60s, includng "Five Summer Stories."