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Swashbuckling Student-made Video Game Takes Home 2 First Place Awards

May 12, 0020 12:00 AM
Each year for the past 5 years, students at BYU's Center for Animation have been tasked with creating an entire video game from concept to finished product. This spring, the latest team made history by creating the first game to win first place in two different categories at the Intel University Games Showcase.
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Media Arts Alum Oscar Jiménez Finds Meaning, Story in Cinematography

April 26, 0020 12:00 AM
Jiménez recently received a Student Heritage Award from the American Society of Cinematographers and saw his work screened at Sundance
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Changemaker Film Festival Winner 'Cassidy: Surviving in Nine Short Films'Explores Life After Trauma

March 09, 0020 12:00 AM
Director Hannah Hughes and producer Nico Sanchez reflected the subject's experiences through the structure of the film
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BYU Alumna Melissa Leilani Larson Merges Faith and Playwriting for Successful Career

September 18, 0019 12:00 AM
Earlier this year, Larson received the Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters
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Media Arts Students Recognized for Work, Achievements Over 2018-19 School Year

May 07, 0019 12:00 AM
The TMA department recognized outstanding students in an end-of-year celebration
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TMA Department Celebrates Theatre Student Achievements and Awards

May 07, 0019 12:00 AM
Students received recognition both on and off campus throughout the 2018-19 school year
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BYU Students Bring Home College Theatre Festival Awards, Prepare for Nationals

April 01, 0019 12:00 AM
Acting major Dylan Wright was named the region's finalist for the prestigious Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship
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Media Arts students recognized at End-of-Year student celebration

April 17, 0016 12:00 AM
Congratulations to all the students who were recognized at the Media Arts End-of-Year student celebration! Listed below are the awards that were given to the media arts students.
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SINGLE WIDE'Wins Big at New York Musical Theatre Festival

July 28, 0015 12:00 AM
Playbill's Robert Viagas detailed the annual award winners for outstanding achievement announced by the 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival. BYU's Single Wide debuted at the festival and garnered four awards, the second highest number of awards of any show in the festival. . To read more information, visit https://cfac.byu.edu/2015/07/29/single-wide-wins-big-at-new-york-musical-theatre-festival/.
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BYU Animators Win Another Emmy

May 03, 0015 12:00 AM
Many of our BYU Animators attended the 36th College Television Awards, more commonly known as "Student Emmy's," in Los Angeles where they took 3rd place for the animated short Ram's Horn, produced by Garrett Hoyos and directed by Jenna Hamzawi. This is the 17th award our animators have won in the last 12 years. Ram's Horn is a "comedic piece documenting the ascent of an oblivious, cocky mountaineer on a quest to the peak of a daunting mountain." To read the full press release about Ram's Horn, visit news.byu.edu/archive15-apr-ramshorn.aspx.
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KCACTF 2015

February 16, 0015 12:00 AM
KCACTF 2015 Results This past week, over forty TMA theatre students and fourteen faculty, staff, and administrators participated in the Region VIII Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, which took place at SUU in St. George.
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BYU Animators Take First for OWNED

June 22, 0014 12:00 AM
BYU animators Dan Clark and Wesley Tippets won first place at the Student Academy Awards on June 7 for their animation project, Owned. Media arts alum Christian Jensen, who has also received his MFA from Stanford, took second in Documentary Film for his project, White Earth. Dan is the on the top row in the middle in front of the statue, Wesley is on the bottom row fourth from the left, right in front of Dan, and Christian is to the left of Wesley with the beard.
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Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival

June 01, 0014 12:00 AM
Jacob Swain was one of two Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship finalists in the region to advance to the national competition in April in Washington DC as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF). The festival involves over 18,000 students from more than 600 colleges and universities nationwide in eight regions.
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Student Playwright Gets Play Published by Samuel French

June 01, 0014 12:00 AM
What started as a CFAC student's writing assignment for a playwriting class is becoming a publication of Samuel French, Inc., one of the most distinguished play-publishing companies in the U.S.
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BYU Animation Students Featured In The New York Times

October 16, 0013 12:00 AM
(from cfac.byu.edu)
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BYU TMA Graduates and Faculty Receive Seven Awards at Rocky Mountain Emmys

October 14, 0013 12:00 AM
The Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) hosted its 2013 Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards Gala and Auction on Saturday, October 19, at the University of Phoenix Stadium, in partnership with the Arizona Cardinals.
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