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CSUMB Student Wins Film Scholarship
By Staff
posted Sep 1, 2010, 06:02
Rachel AsendorfRachel Asendorf was selected as this year's recipient of the $1,000 prize in the Monterey County Film Commission Film Student Scholarship and Awards Program. Asendorf is a junior in the Teledramatic Arts and Technology Department.
Monterey County Film Commission Makes Award
Rachel AsendorfRachel Asendorf was selected as this year's recipient of the
$1,000 prize in the Monterey County Film Commission Film Student Scholarship
and Awards Program. Asendorf is a junior in the Teledramatic Arts and Technology
Department.
The Monterey County Film Commission scholarship program was created to provide
financial aid and incentive to students of film and beginning filmmakers who
reside in Monterey County or are enrolled in a college or university in the
county. The fund was established as a permanent endowment with the Community
Foundation for Monterey County. Film commission board member Phyllis Decker
is the scholarship program chair.
Asendorf, who lives on campus, is putting herself through school. This school
year, she worked as a news intern in the office of strategic communications
at CSUMB, learning how to merge news and technology. She is also a production
assistant for the Monterey Teen Film Festival, helping manage media and marketing,
and had her own political talk show on the campus radio station, focusing on
issues such as media influence.
In 2007, she won the Hispanic Heritage Bronze Award in the Los Angeles area
for excellence in news writing. In high school in Apple Valley, she produced,
directed, edited and filmed two documentaries that were distributed to each
student who purchased a yearbook.
Her career goal is to produce video packages and enter the online or broadcast
journalism field. "I want to enlighten, inform and entertain audiences
through my productions," Asendorf said.
She plans to use the money to buy a video camera.
The scholarship was created in 2008. That year, CSUMB students Estee Blancher
and Veronica Calvillo shared the award. Last year, Juan Ramirez was the winner
for a film that looked at life in Juvenile Hall.
"When I was looking at colleges, I saw the story about Estee's work on
the CSUMB website, and that inspired me," Asendorf said. "I'm pleased
to get the same scholarship she did."
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