A new addition in Mario Congreve's awards cabinet has added significant prominence to its gathering of coveted occupants, and her name is “Emmy.” Congreve, a media production specialist at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) and lecturer in CSUDH's Digital Media Arts program, was honored with his first Emmy Award on June 18 for his work as co-producer and director of photography for the film Cuba: the Forgotten Revolution which received the Emmy in the Best Documentary category. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Lower Great Lakes Chapter presented Congreve and Glenn Gebhard, the film's director and a professor at Loyola Marymount School of Film and ... Read More
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Megan Rodriquez and Kelsey Nicks receive Jamina O. Barnes Memorial Scholarship
For their personal commitment and ongoing contributions to community service, Megan Rodriquez, a Digital Media Arts (DMA) major, and Kelsey Nicks, an Occupational Therapy student, have received the California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Alumni Association Jamina O. Barnes Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is named in memory of Barnes, the former director of Alumni Relations at CSUDH, and is awarded annually to one eligible full-time undergraduate and one graduate student. Rodriguez, an undergraduate student who lives in Los Angeles, was a bit taken back when she learned she received the scholarship. “I felt surprised, excited, thankful, and extremely honored,” ... Read More
Tom Bradley Documentary Bridges Divide of Nearly Forgotten Legacy
Approximately 10 million passengers travel through Los Angeles International Airport's Tom Bradley International Terminal every year, yet many of them have no idea who the terminal's namesake is. The longest-serving mayor in city of Los Angeles history–and its only African American mayor–who paved the way for other candidates crossing racial boundaries at the polls, has very little acknowledgement outside of the city, but Lyn Goldfarb and Alison Sotomayor are looking to change that. In 2007, filmmakers Goldfarb and Sotomayor, noticing that Bradley's story was not taught in the public school system and fearing that his legacy was being forgotten, began work on “Bridging the Divide: Tom ... Read More
Digital Media Arts students produce PSAs for City of Los Angeles
Looking for a way to produce four professional, high-quality public service announcements (PSA) without the high cost usually charged by industry professionals, the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks turned to California State University, Dominguez Hills' Digital Media Arts (DMA) Department and got a great price–free. The city pitched the PSA project to seniors in the DMA 346 Client-Based Production Workshop, the third and final course in a three-semester sequence required for the DMA Television Arts degree option. This course is one reason the DMA program has proven popular among local industry, non-profits and city agencies, as well as groups on campus that–along ... Read More
Book Signing, April 29: ‘Demonic to Divine: The Double Life of Shulamis Yelin’
When Gilah Yelin Hirsch first read her mother's 70 diaries and discovered the extent of the physical and psychological abuse she had endured from infancy to the age of 16, rather than loathing her, she felt “love, empathy and compassion for her mother,” the celebrated Canadian author Shulamis Yelin. “I grew to admire her for all that she had accomplished despite the extremes of her mental illness and her very difficult life,” said Hirsch, professor of art at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). “The greatest difficulty in reading the diaries was seeing the severity and depth of her suffering, and reading how although on a certain level I and others who were close to her ... Read More
