Caitlyn Mendoza, Staff Writer
November 29, 2016
Filed under Arts & Life, Features
As Brittney Turner conducts business over FaceTime, she is framed with hundreds of shipment and merchandise boxes stacked on shelves behind her at the Sorella boutique warehouse in Los Angeles.
She wore on...
Jason Enns, Arts & LIfe Editor
November 12, 2016
Filed under Arts & Life, Features
Upon entrance of the Merlino room in the student art galleries, visitors are greeted by bare white walls, ominous music and a large projection of Cal State Long Beach photography senior Connor O’Brien’s father.
O’Brien’s short film “Mentia” plays on loop, as if to reflect the daily routines the film represents. It follows the trials of a normal morning for O’Brien and his 68-year-old father Michael O’Br...
Amber Costa, Staff Writer
October 30, 2016
Filed under Arts & Life, Features, Film and Television
Cal State Long Beach Film and Electronic Arts senior Alexandra Petrus is a first-generation American born from an Iraqi refugee family. She is in the process of directing her senior film on the refugee crisis in the Middle East, called “Mourning Dove.”
Petrus is from Oakland, California and finds a connection to what is happening in the Syrian civil war, drawing her interest into making a film about the current crisis ...
