American Cinematographer — October 2013
Short Takes: ASC Harris Savides Student Heritage Award Winners

The ASC presented Harris Savides Heritage Awards to three student cinematographers from Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts during an awards ceremony at the Clubhouse in June. Ryan Broomberg won the graduate competition for The Bright Side, a 1940s-era musical romance that merges fantasy song-and-dance sequences with the gritty realities of a nation preparing for war. Mishka Kornai won the undergraduate competition for Straight Down Low, a neo-noir film set in the inner city with a shrewd teenaged detective who must solve a curious gangland crime in order to protect the girl he loves. Drew Heskett and Ryan Westra won the documentary competition for We Are the Land, which follows Native American activist Pauline Matt as she tries to protect her homeland from mining interests. (Read full story…)