Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television Professor Glenn Gebhard Wins Regional Emmy® Award

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Jun 21, 2016, 03:33 ET

LOS ANGELES, June 21, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television (LMU SFTV) Professor Glenn Gebhard received a regional Emmy® Award in the category of Best Documentary for his recent film Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented Gebhard with the award on June 18^th, 2016 at the 47th Annual Lower Great Lakes Chapter Awards ceremony in Sandusky, Ohio.

Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution tells the virtually unknown story of Cuban revolutionaries Frank Pais and José Antonio Echeverría — a school teacher and architecture student, respectively - whose names seldom appear alongside their more famous contemporaries, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Through archival stock footage, recreations and exclusive interviews with Cuban revolution participants and observers, family members of the men, Americans who fought alongside Castro and Guevara, and a former CIA agent, we learn how these young men, who worked largely independently from each other, played critical roles in the eventual overthrow of dictator Fulgencio Batista y Zaldíva. The documentary was co-produced by WTIU Public Television from Indiana University, a PBS affiliate in Bloomington, Indiana, and aired nationally on PBS this past year.

"It was a great honor to be awarded an Emmy® for my film Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution. Many years in the making, I especially appreciate my colleagues who worked with me to bring this film to the public, and to everyone who contributed to the production. Hopefully the themes of this film will resonate beyond Cuba and highlight the importance of readdressing history, and understanding the reasons why history can be used in any country for political manipulation," said Gebhard.

LMU SFTV contributors include alumnus Tim Guest (Screenwriting – B.A. '10), who co-wrote the film; SFTV lecturer Mario Congreve served as the film's co-producer and cinematographer; SFTV Recording Arts Department's Associate Professor Kurt Daugherty recorded sound; Professor Mladen Milicevic composed the music; and Clinical Assistant Professor Gino Brancolini, the Associate Producer, contributed to both the scripting and editing of the film.

Glenn Gebhard is an award-winning film and video producer. He directs both documentaries and narrative films. His 2012 documentary Greetings from Fire Island received the J. Stuart Blackton Award for Best Documentary at the Long Island Film Festival and won first place in the 2014 Press Club of Long Island awards in the Arts category. His other awards and honors include the Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant; Ageis Award; Telly Award (multiple); Cine Eagle Award; Chris Award; Scan/Nato Award; Communicator's Award; and Winner of the Boston Film festival documentary.

Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution is currently available on Netflix.
Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/2moRbqjAr74

About LMU SFTV
Movie industry moguls helped establish Loyola Marymount University's (LMU) current campus on the bluffs above west Los Angeles in the 1920s. By 1964, LMU was formally teaching film and television curriculum, and in 2001, the School of Film and Television (SFTV) was established as its own entity. Today, SFTV offers students a comprehensive education where mastering technical skills and story is equally important to educating the whole person, including the formation of character and values, meaning and purpose. SFTV offers undergraduate degrees in animation, production, screenwriting, film and television studies and recording arts; and graduate degrees in production, screenwriting and writing and producing for television. The school is one of the few film programs providing students with a completely tapeless model of production and post-production, and SFTV's animation program is one of the few worldwide that teaches virtual cinematography. Selected alumni include John Bailey, Bob Beemer, Francie Calfo, Brian Helgeland, Francis Lawrence, Lauren Montgomery, Effie Brown, Jack Orman, Van Partible and James Wong, among others. Get more information at sftv.lmu.edu or facebook.com/lmusftv.