{"id":247968,"date":"2017-03-09T06:06:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T20:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=247968"},"modified":"2017-03-09T06:06:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T20:06:15","slug":"uog-professor-gets-award-film-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/uog-professor-gets-award-film-script\/","title":{"rendered":"UOG professor gets award for film script"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_247986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-247986\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Raymond-Anderson-mug.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-247986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Raymond-Anderson-mug-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Raymond Anderson \" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-247986\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-247986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Raymond Anderson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of Guam associate professor of Mass Media Dr. Raymond Anderson was recently recognized by the Broadcast Education Association with an Award of Excellence for his feature-length film script.<\/p>\n<p>The Centenarian\u2019s Birthday Party was one of two faculty submitted scripts chosen by the BEA for its Festival of Media Arts competition. The honor is second only to the \u201cBest in Competition\u201d award. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI kind of had been wanting to do this one for quite a while because I felt so passionate about it,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cI\u2019ve heard people say it\u2019s a muse. If you don\u2019t do it, it\u2019ll go somewhere else. I had to write this. It wouldn\u2019t let me go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The plot centers around a dysfunctional Jamaican family coming to terms with their ghosts when an alienated homosexual and adulterous father\/son decides to attend his father\u2019s 100th birthday party in Kingston, Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I wrote it, the characters became real enough to surprise me with the things they did,\u201d said Anderson, who is originally from Jamaica. \u201cAs I shaped them, they began to do things I didn\u2019t expect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anderson hopes to submit his script to a few other competitions. Eventually, he hopes the script can one day become a feature length film.<\/p>\n<p>With a burgeoning filmmaking industry in Guam, Anderson sees the importance of incorporating more script writing into the Communication department\u2019s curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goal is to make that part of our major on the mass media side,\u201d he said. \u201cWe also want to work with the English department, making it a regular thing and focusing on developing short films.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more on the Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts, visit http:\/\/www.beafestival.org. (UOG)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Guam associate professor of Mass Media Dr. Raymond Anderson was recently recognized by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":247986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15892,51,417,445],"class_list":["post-247968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-birthday-party","tag-guam","tag-jamaica","tag-uog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}