FTVM class project wins BEA Festival award

Accolades are coming in for Viviana Bivian's "Ghoul-Be-Gone," a video project she produced in the fall for her FTVM 130: Film and TV Production Basics class with Prof. Kevin Lyons. Bivian received the Best of Two-Year Colleges award during the Broadcast Educators Association (BEA) Annual Festival of Media Arts in April, a competition with 2,285 entries from more than 300 participating schools. Prof. Lyons and Prof. Lucas Cuny joined Bivian at the BEA Festival in Las Vegas, with her trip covered by the Film, Television, and Media Department.

Bivian, an FTVM major, wrote, directed, edited, and made graphics for "Ghoul-Be-Gone," a Halloween commercial promo. She worked on the project with several other students, including Alexander Salas, Faustino Gonzalez Enrique, Damian Romero, Letisha Wiliams, Juan Brambila, Caleb Gifford, Tushar Oza, and Rory Ferranto.