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HFPA gave CSUN $60,000 to support senior film projects and an additional $5,000 toward a $25,000 endowment for scholarships the association set up at the university a couple of years ago. The presentation to CSUN’s Department of Cinema and Television Arts was made during the association’s star-studded annual dinner. The award comes on the heels of a $2 million gift the organization made to the department earlier this year to support students, including the creation of a Hollywood Foreign Press Association Scholars program, and to enhance technology. Read more

Best Academic/Scholarly Work-- The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art, edited by Frances Gateward and John Jennings Read more

While being compared to the number 1 bands from other 4yr Colleges and Universities in previous festivals, the Jazz B Band has placed amongst the top 4 bands for a number of years; this is the first occasion that the band has taken first place, triumphing over number one bands in the division. Read more

The public has a chance of discovering the next Quentin Tarantino, Kathryn Bigelow or Guillermo del Toro on Thursday, May 5, at California State University, Northridge’s 26^th annual “Senior Film Showcase” at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Read more

As president of physical production for the Sony Pictures’ company responsible for such popular hits as The Perfect Guy, The Wedding Ringer, Think Like a Man, Friends with Benefits and Death at a Funeral, Glenn Gainor could spend his days working in his office on the Sony lot, taking only an occasional glance out a window that offers him a bird’s eye view of the soundstages where such film classics as The Wizard of Oz and Singing in the Rain were made. Read more