Francis Ford Coppola has launched an ambitious "Distant Vision" project as a "live cinema" experiment at his alma mater, the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Coppola unveiled details of the multi-year project at a news conference Saturday, following his month-long collaboration with 75 UCLA students and faculty on "Distant Vision," the story of three generations of an Italian-American family whose history spans the development of television.

The collaboration culminated Friday with a 27-minute live broadcast of the "Distant Vision" script from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television's Freud Playhouse to a limited audience. The tasks for the students and faculty included operating over 40 cameras, acting and working on sound, set design and construction, costume, props, editing, stage management and producing.

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