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    ASC presents Student Heritage Awards to MacMillan, Feng, Owen

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    Zhili "Evan" Feng of Chapman University won The Isidore Mankofsky Heritage Award (Undergraduate Category) for "Where The Bird Goes"
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    The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) presented this year’s Student Heritage Awards during a virtual presentation on Saturday (3/5). Chosen for demonstrating exceptional cinematography skills in their submitted work, the three winning student filmmakers are:

    • Lawrence Sher, ASC presented the Judy Irola Student Heritage Award (Graduate Category) to Seth MacMillan of the American Film Institute for My Life Stopped At 15.
    • The Isidore Mankofsky Heritage Award (Undergraduate Category) was presented by Tommy Maddox-Upshaw, ASC to Zhili “Evan” Feng of Chapman University for Where The Bird Goes.
    • And Shana Hagan, ASC gave the Haskell Wexler Documentary Award to Tristan Owen of Florida State University for The Castle Builder.

    ASC president Stephen Lighthill, Student Awards co-chairs Crag Kief and Armando Salas, and Sony’s manager of digital cinema camera sales and business development Daniel Perry also took part in this special ceremony. As this year’s student awards sponsor, Sony bestowed gift packages to all the winners.

    The ASC Student Heritage Awards are designed to encourage and support the next generation of cinematographers, and to celebrate the memory of an ASC member. Irola was a cinematographer, documentarian and educator (An Ambush of Ghosts, Niger ‘66: A Peace Corps Diary). Mankofsky, a longtime chairperson of the ASC Student Awards, earned three Emmy® nominations and shot feature films including The Jazz Singer and Somewhere In Time. The Documentary category is enduringly dedicated to Oscar®-winner Wexler, ASC (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Bound For Glory)

    The ASC Student Heritage Award program was inaugurated in 1999. Many of the students previously recognized have gone on to have successful careers in filmmaking, including the Student Awards Committee co-chairs Kief and Salas, alongside other ASC members Nelson Cragg, Masanobu Takayanagi and Lisa Wiegand.

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    Singer D4vd charged with murder of girl, 14, found dismembered in his car

    Monday, April 20, 2026
    Singer-songwriter, David Burke aka D4vd sits in artist space at Coachella music festival on April 18, 2025 in Indio, Calif. (AP Photo)

    Singer D4vd has been charged with murder in the death of a 14-year-old girl whose dismembered and decomposed body was found in September in his apparently abandoned Tesla, prosecutors said. Friday.

    The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said the 21-year-old D4vd, whose legal name is David Burke, was charged with first-degree murder; lewd and lascivious acts with an individual under 14; and mutilating a body in the killing of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. She was reported missing by her family in 2024, when she was 13. Authorities say she was 14 when she died.

    The murder charges included special circumstances — lying in wait, committing crime for financial gain and murdering the witness in an investigation — that could carry the death penalty. Prosecutors haven't announced whether they will seek it.

    Attorneys for the Houston-born alt-pop singer said he was innocent in a statement released after homicide detectives arrested him on Thursday at a home in Hollywood.

    "Let us be clear — the actual evidence in this case will show that David Burke did not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez and he was not the cause of her death," the lawyers said.

    The long-dead body of Rivas Hernandez was found inside a Tesla that was towed from the Hollywood Hills on Sept. 8, a day after she would have turned 15. Her family had reported her missing from her hometown of Lake Elsinore, about 70 miles (112 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles.

    Authorities did not publicly name Burke as a suspect until his arrest. And his lawyers' statement last week, in which said they "will vigorously defend David's innocence," was the first time they weighed in publicly.

    The singer had been under investigation by an LA County grand jury looking into... Read More

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