“After the Tsunami,” directed by University of Arkansas Professor Larry Foley and narrated by Clinton School Alum Rina Meutia, will be awarded the Broadcast Education Association Award of Excellence from the Festival of Media Arts.
About the Festival of Media Arts
The Broadcast Eduacation Association’s Festival of Media Arts is a competitive festival open to BEA individual faculty and student members. Last year, the festival received over 1250 total entires in 15 competitions. Separate competitions for faculty and students cover the range from dramatic narratives, through non-fiction documentary and news to the frontiers of interactive multimedia.
Prizes are awarded during BEA’s annual convention and Festival of Media Arts – April 6-9, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
About “After the Tsunami”
“After the Tsunami” tells the story of Indonesian college graduate students who came to U.S. universities, most went to the University of Arkansas and Texas A&M, on scholarships following the 2004 tsunami that killed 173,000 in Banda Aceh. Former presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton championed the program, intended to help rebuild the human capital in Aceh Provence. The film is written and produced by Arkansas journalism professor Larry Foley, and narrated in first person by one of the students, Clinton School of Public Service graduate Rina Meutia.
“After the Tsunami” will air on AETN in Central Arkansas on Thursday, February 13, 2014 at 6:30 p.m.
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