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2008 North American All Youth Film Festival: Distant Voices, Petals of Hope and My First Time won the Festival’s Grand Prize for the Media Academy. In 2007, Sugar Water and The Showdown screened at the Festival. | |
| Film Your Issue 2008: Sarah Morcos won the United Nations Global Issue Award, as well as the United Nations Department of Public Information Award for Petals of Hope. The VIP Jury was headed by Walter Cronkite and Tom Brokaw, as well as United Nations DPI Under-Secretary-General Kiyotaka Akasaka. The Award Ceremony at SONY Pictures Entertainment studio lot featured HBO Host Bill Maher, and veteran actor and philanthropist Kirk Douglas. | ||
| HBO became a Media Academy donor. | ||
| Panavision will be training students in the use of film and video equipment. Students who complete the training will be eligible for equipment scholarships. | ||
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Erene Morcos, Sarah Morcos, Tessa Ormenyi, and Erick Fuentes-Casas joined Media Academy yeachers Evelyn Seubert and James Gleason at the third International Youth Media Summit in Belgrade, Serbia. While there they worked with other student from around the world to create public services announcments and declarations about the pivotal issues affecting their generation. |
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