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Cortina ’09 Up for Student Academy Award

The finalists for the 2013 Student Academy Awards competition were recently announced and among the 47 films selected was “Bottled Up,” by Rafael Cortina (Occidental College). According to a press release from the  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Student Academy Awards, “winners will be brought to Los Angeles for a week of industry activities and social events that will culminate in the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.”

Hession ’99 Wins Peabody, Fellowship

Jim Hession ’99 was the co-editor of the film, Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, which recently won a 2012 Peabody Award. Mr. Hession also recently won the Karen Schmeer 2013 Film Editing Fellowship. He will be honored at the annual Independent Film Festival in Boston, April 24-30. His blogs about his experiences at the SXSW Film Festival can be found at the Karen Schmeer website.