Brett Caroline Levner (Film) won the 2015 Charles Vanda Award for Excellence in the Arts for her work on The Track, a feature film about underage sex trafficking in Las Vegas.  It stars Missy Yager (Mad Men), Sam Trammell (True Blood, The Fault in Our Stars), Michael Muhney (Veronica Mars, The Young and the Restless), Clarence Gilyard (Die…

David Schmoeller (Film) is the 2015 recipient of the Charles Vanda Award for Excellence in the Arts from UNLV's College of Education. Additionally, he has received promotion to full professor, effective July 1, 2015. A feature film he wrote, produced, and directed, 2 Little Monsters, was licensed to the Lifetime Movie Network for three years. Its…

Berenice Chavez (Film) won two Pacific Southwest Student Emmy Awards in June. The awards were presented during a ceremony in San Diego. Her film, North to Paradise,won in the category of long-form documentary, while her film, Passing the Torch,won in the craft of editing category. Both projects were created in UNLV's film program. She has been…

Berenice Chavez (Film) was nominated for three Pacific Southwest Emmy Awards in the student category for her short documentaries, Passing the Torch and North to Paradise, which were made in the Documentary Techniques class at UNLV. Two nominations are for producing and one is for editing. She will be attending the awards ceremony this month in San…

David Schmoeller (Film) is a writer-director who was the guest speaker at the art house Music Box Theater in Chicago in October where his feature film Crawlspace (1986) and his short film documentary Please Kill Mr. Kinski (1999) were screened. Both films star Klaus Kinski. He also is the writer-director of Little Monsters (2012).

Stephanie Perez, Brian Merrick, Craig Boydston, and Constanza Castro (all Film) recently were accepted into the American Film Institute (AFI) for fall 2013. This, along with last year's acceptances, makes the UNLV film program the most represented American undergraduate program at AFI. Perez and Merrick will be editing fellows. Boydston will be…

David Schmoeller (Film) received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in World Cinema. The event took place at the Fantaspoa Film Festival in Porto Alegre, Brazil, the largest genre film festival in South America, and featured the world premiere of his 10th feature film Little Monsters (2012). The film was shot on location in Las Vegas…