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Kenan Fellowships at WGBH Announced
By StudentFilmmakers.com
posted Jul 3, 2013, 11:19
The Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts announces that four University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNSCA) students have been awarded fellowships to spend time during the summer of 2013 at WGBH Boston.
The Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts announces that four University of
North Carolina School of the Arts (UNSCA) students have been awarded fellowships
to spend time during the summer of 2013 at WGBH Boston, the flagship of the
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
The 2013 WGBH/Kenan Fellows are Taylor George, a rising college senior with
a focus in cinematography; Brittany Jorgenson, a rising second year college
student working toward a Bachelor of Fine Arts in producing; Gabriel Russo,
a recent graduate with a B.F.A. in Directing; and Adam Weiner, a rising college
senior with a focus in cinematography.
“We are thrilled to offer this Fellowship with WGBH for a third year,”
said Lynda S. Lotich, Interim Executive Director of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute
for the Arts. “It is an amazing opportunity for UNCSA students to observe
and learn first-hand from the WGBH professionals at this public media powerhouse.”
Kenan Fellows George, Jorgenson, Russo and Weiner will be at UNCSA and WGBH
during this summer to work with producers in developing a set of video-based
resources to support K-12 teaching and learning. These resources will focus
on interpretations of the creative process from a variety of disciplines and
perspectives, grounded in the ongoing efforts of UNCSA student teams preparing
for The Cirkus Theatre Project at UNCSA.
The Fellowship will include on-site training and assistance at UNCSA in pre-production
panning, video and sound production techniques, and live action shoots and interviews.
While at WGBH in Boston, the Kenan Fellows will edit their footage into polished
final products, working with a variety of producers, designers and developers
from across the station.
WGBH Boston (www.wgbh.org) is America’s
preeminent public broadcaster, producing such celebrated national PBS series
as Masterpiece, Antiques Roadshow, Frontline, Nova, American Experience, Arthur,
Curious George and more than a dozen other award-winning series. WGBH also produces
local TV productions that focus on the region’s diverse community, while
WGBH 89.7 FM is Boston’s NPR Arts & Culture station. WGBH is the leading
producer of online content for pbs.org—one of the most-visited dot-org
sites. WGBH has been recognized with hundreds of honors, including Oscars, Emmys,
Peabodys and duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards.
The Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts (www.uncsa.edu/kenan)
is a privately funded program of the University of North Carolina School of
the Arts that incubates projects that sustain artists at every point in their
creative development through strategic partnerships that capitalize on visionary
thinking in the arts.
As America’s first state-supported arts school, the University of North
Carolina School of the Arts is a unique stand-alone public university of arts
conservatories. With a high school component, UNCSA is a degree-granting institution
that trains young people of talent in music, dance, drama, filmmaking, and design
and production. Established by the N.C. General Assembly in 1963, the School
of the Arts opened in Winston-Salem (“The City of Arts and Innovation”)
in 1965 and became part of the University of North Carolina system in 1972.
Resources:
www.uncsa.edu
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