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UT film student graced with award
UT grad student Maru Buendia-Senties has won the Cary Grant Film Award at the annual Princess Grace Awards, which will be presented Oct. 25 at Sotheby’s in New York.
The award is a graduate scholarship to complete her thesis film “El Puente” (The Bridge), depicting “the Mexican-American border in a way that conveys the riveting lifestyle of its people and how their stories get lost in translation by the media.”
Previous UT film winners are Benjamin Steinbauer, John Fiege and Susan Youssef.
Learn more about Buendia-Senties and the Princess Grace Awards at PGFUSA.org.
Maru Buendia-Senties
Nueva Onda, the taco and tamale shop tucked right off S. Congress, rolls on with its Movie Nights with a slate of Austin-made shorts at 8 p.m. Thursday. (Remember, it’s First Thursday in that area.)
Shorts include “Room of Ghosts,” “Anatomy of a Frog,” “Blue Suede Wings” and “Lord of the Wiens.”
(On Sept. 13, Movie Nights screens “Lasting Images,” a doc about alternative burials.)
Shows are free, rain or shine, at Nueva Onda, 2218 College Ave., right off S. Congress Ave. More at nuevaaustin.com.
‘Anatomy of a Frog’
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