CSULA’s interactive ‘The Desk of One Astronomer’
3 other student works honored—‘to-day’ as experimental,
Los Angeles, CA –
By encouraging interaction with the cosmos, laying out The Frame Job,
experimenting and documenting, four creative works by three
Cal State L.A. students—
Dallim Park
of Glendale,
Matt Gatlin
of Los Angeles and
Nadia Montoya
of Panorama City—were recently honored at the
2009 CSU Media Arts
Festival
(MAF).
The annual festival showcases exceptional student film and video
projects throughout the California State University system’s 23
campuses. Cash awards were given for the first-place Rosebud Awards in
each category, and also to the CSU campus department of each winning
entrant.
A total of 171 entries from throughout the CSU were received and judged
by a panel of industry experts. The panel chose 30 finalists for
competition within nine categories: animation, documentary,
experimental, interactive, music video, narrative, television, feature
screenplay, and short screenplay.
Here are this year’s award-winning students from Cal State L.A.:
·
Dallim Park,
director, received the first-place
Rosebud Award
in the interactive category for
The Desk of One Astronomer,
an online observatory exploring the origin and structure of the universe. With
the award, Park, an art design graduate student, received a $500 prize
and the Art Department at Cal State L.A. received a $250 prize.
·
Matt Gatlin,
director and producer,
had two films honored:
to-day,
depicting a man’s journey through a lost love, placed
second
in the experimental category, and
The Frame Job,
which follows the aftermath of a woman’s killing,
placed
third
in the narrative category. Gatlin is a television, film and theatre
graduate student.
·
Nadia Montoya,
director and producer, received
third-place
recognition for
Jessica,
a documentary film
about her sister who suffers from Lupus and kidney failure.
Television and film major Montoya, currently a Panorama City resident,
was raised in Hollywood.
Cal State L.A. students also received high honors in last year’s
festival, including a Rosebud Award in
television for
Ups and Downs.
For details, go to
http://www.calstatela.edu/univ/ppa/newsrel/mediafest08-winners.htm.
For a list of the 2009 festival winners, go to
www.mediaartsfestival.org or
www.csusummerarts.org. For more on the CSU Media Arts Festival,
please contact Joanne Sharp, festival director, at
jsharp@calstate.edu or (562) 951-4065.
Media
nets Rosebud Award at
2009 CSU Media Arts Festival
‘The Frame Job’ as narrative, ‘Jessica’ as documentary
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