The Humbling Experience of Becoming an Award-Winning Director

Will and I won the USC Shoah Student Film Contest with the prize of $1500! It's nice to have all of our hard work pay off. Special thanks once again goes to Radical Face, who would have earned my lifetime fan-worship for their generosity in letting us use their song, "The Strangest Things," if they didn't already have it for their haunting and beautiful music.

USC Science Film Freshman Victory

Andy Su (Scientific Consultant), Maria Raykova (Director), Mara Guevarra, Kayla Carlisle, Jabril Mack

So the freshmen animators have made another conquest! We've been awarded second place, and the prize of $1,500, for our 10 minute cartoon about the atomical composition of life, the universe, and everything in it, which we entered in the school-wide Science Film Contest. (We were the only freshman team.) The competition was meant to unite those of us at USC studying media with the members of USC's science and math departments, in the hopes of encouraging aspiring filmmakers to help these guys educate the masses. Andy (a fellow freshman studying aeronautical engineering) was our scientific consultant, and we were directed by the talented and determined Maria Raykova.

Some of us came over-dressed.