Grad students and alums hosting, presenting and getting promoted!
News from alums of our MA program:
- Treepon Kirdnark will be promoted to chair of the journalism department at Bangkok University in November.
- Seth Koury screened his documentary, “Sounds of Beirut,” in Beirut.
Current student Heidi Martinuzzi is hosting screenings of horror movies directed by women at LA’s silent movie theater. The first one Sunday featured “Pet Semetary I” and II, followed by a Q&A with director Mary Lambert. On Oct. 24, “Stripped to Kill” and “Poison Ivy” will be followed by a Q&A with director Katt Shea.
“Sounds of Beirut” scores a Gold Medal and other grad news
Our graduate student Seth Koury has won a “Gold Medal for Excellence” at the Park City Film Music Festival for his documentary “Sounds of Beirut.” 
Seth’s documentary has been raking in awards in the last couple of months: Broadcast Education Association honorable mention and Thesis of the Year for the Journalism Department.
And there’s more good news.
Esha Momeni accepted a human rights award this weekend from the Visual Artists Guild, which is given in honor of the students killed at Tiananmen Square. Esha also accepted an award from the Feminist Majority Foundation last month for the women activists currently jailed in Iran. She appeared on a panel with feminist icon Gloria Steinem, United Farmworkers co-founder Delores Huerta and Khaled Hosseini, author of The 
Kite Runner (bootleg video coming soon). Esha will be entering the Women’s Studies doctoral program at UCLA this fall.
Anasa Sinegal has been accepted into the PhD program in Mass Comm at UNC-Chapel Hill and awarded one of their prestigious Park Fellowships. She departs for the Land ‘o Grits this summer. Shannon Sindorf was accepted into the PhD program at Colorado.
Sahar El Zahed presented her research on Western news coverage of the Gaza conflict at the “Ruptures of War” conference at the Claremont Colleges last month prompting a lively discussion.
Congratulations to our students.
