Two weeks ago, the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins rocked the film industry. The events leading up to this shooting revealed a lack of safety attentiveness and poor set leadership. Professor of cinema and media arts professor Dean Yamada gave his insight on this event and the implications it...

Dean Yamada is the professor teaching Biola film this year, a six-unit class whose final assignment is a film project that is selected the previous semester. Because of COVID-19, the format for this class has changed, meaning that the films audiences can expect will also look different. Here is an inside...

Before the fall semester began, faculty and staff anticipated to teach students through hybrid classes. Biola had designed a system that would allow a limited number of students to be present in class, while others watched via Zoom. When President Barry Corey announced that Biola’s campus would be...

This year marks the first year that the Biola Film Festival acts independently from the university, rebranding as the Guerrilla Student Film Festival, named after the Guerrilla Film Society club, which formed on campus in 2001 but is now defunct.  Having planned to launch First Glance—an event...

(This story was originally published in print on Apr. 25, 2019). In 2017, Biola film “The Bacchae” premiered on campus as a small, contained story about the negative effects of purity culture. Today, the film is known as “Little Lantern” and has been selected to screen at eight film festivals...