{"id":169402,"date":"2022-11-21T14:52:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T00:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=169402"},"modified":"2022-11-22T08:21:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T18:21:14","slug":"acm-student-production-center-grand-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/21\/acm-student-production-center-grand-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West O\u02bbahu celebrates ACM<\/abbr> Student Production Center grand opening"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
\"\"
Gov. David Ige speaking at the Academy for Creative Media Student Production Center grand opening at 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More than 350 guests gathered to celebrate the grand opening of the $37-million Academy for Creative Media (ACM<\/abbr>) Student Production Center at the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span>\u2013–West Oʻahu<\/span> on November 18.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a fabulous, state-of-the-art-capacity building that will really teach the future to our students,” said Chris Lee<\/strong>, founder and director of the Academy for Creative Media System<\/a>. “This is really the hub for creative media education throughout the ACM<\/abbr> System.”<\/p>\n

Related: New state-of-the-art Academy for Creative Media facility ready for students<\/a>, August 2022<\/span>\t<\/p>\n

The facility will link complementary facilities and programs throughout the 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> System and across the state as a catalyst for Hawaiʻi<\/span>\u2019s intellectual property workforce. The facility features industry-standard equipment, including a Dolby Atmos 100-seat screening room and mixing stage, esports arena, post-production suites, emerging media lab, incubator space and industry-standard sound stage.<\/p>\n

Creative media is fastest-growing degree program<\/h2>\n

The building aligns with the 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span>\u2019s fastest-growing degree program—the bachelor of arts in creative media<\/a>. The program embraces new media through video, animation, video games, social media platforms, apps and virtual and augmented reality. The degree has concentrations in communications and new media technology<\/a>, design and media<\/a>, video game design and development<\/a> and general creative media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"two
Chris Lee and Maenette Benham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Student Production Center is designed to stimulate Hawaiʻi<\/span>\u2019s production and creative media ecosystem, including the state\u2019s growing film and television production industry. Hawaiʻi<\/span>\u2019s creative sector, which includes the film, music, digital media and arts industries, accounts for nearly 54,000 jobs across the state.<\/p>\n

The new building serves as a connector between academic programming across the 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> System and the delivery of hands-on experiences that will prepare students for jobs in motion pictures, video production, design and social media, as well as digital content creation, video game design and development, and the integration of storytelling and technology.<\/p>\n

“This building means a lot,” said Joseph Baldueza<\/strong>, who received his bachelor\u2019s degree from 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span> in spring 2020, with a concentration in general creative media. “This program means a lot. It always had awesome instructors, a really good and challenging curriculum. Now it has a facility and the equipment to support what we already had.” Baldueza is now a production manager at Marine Corps Community Services Hawaiʻi<\/span>. <\/p>\n

Dignitaries and celebrities attend<\/h2>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

At the grand opening and blessing ceremony, dignitaries, students, faculty, administrators, industry professionals, celebrities and supporters enjoyed opening music by 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span> students, MW Restaurant fare and photo opportunities throughout self-guided tours of the facility.<\/p>\n

Program speakers included Gov. David Ige, Lee, 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> President David Lassner<\/strong> and 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span> Chancellor Maenette Benham<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s about giving our students the best opportunity that we can to chase their digital dreams, and we wanted to make sure that they had a world-class facility so that they would pursue anything and everything their dreams could come up with,” Ige said.<\/p>\n

The program concluded with a celebrity panel discussion on “Representation in the Film Industry,” featuring Mark Dacascos, Hawaiʻi<\/span>-born actor, director, TV personality; Bird Runningwater, Cheyenne and Mescalero Apache Tribes, who guided the Sundance Institute’s investment in Native American and Indigenous filmmakers; Amy Hill, Japanese-American actress; Malaysian comedian and actor Ronny Chieng; and Filipina-American actress and singer Kimee Balmilero.<\/p>\n

The panelists shared insights on the importance of diverse voices in the film industry.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s so important for this space (of diversity) to be in existence and for us to just keep telling our stories because there is a huge, huge shift happening and it\u2019s really, really exciting,” Balmilero said.<\/p>\n

To see photos from the event, visit the Grand Opening of the Academy for Creative Media Student Production Center album on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more to go to Ka Puna O Kaloʻi<\/span><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

—By Zenaida Serrano Arvman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A grand opening of the $37 million Academy for Creative Media Student Production Center at 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span> was held on November 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[21,112,549,202,59],"class_list":["post-169402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-21st-century-facilities","tag-academy-for-creative-media","tag-creative-media","tag-facilities","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169402"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169410,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169402\/revisions\/169410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}