M2007 mfa grad Wins $10G Film Award YolandaPividal Yolanda Pividal, a June 2007 graduate of CCNY’s M.F.A. in Media Arts Production program, won the $10,000 Fledgling Fund Award for Emerging Latino Filmmakers from the Independent Feature Project (IFP) for her thesis project “Tijuana Nada Mas.”
The documentary, about four homeless children in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, has also been nominated for the Independent Documentary Association’s (IDA) David L.Wolper Student Doc Award, to be presented in at the IDA Gala Benefit in Los Angeles, December 7.
“The IFP prize means not just crucial financial support for the project but also very important acknowledgement from prestigious documentary filmmakers such as Lourdes Portillo,” Ms. Pividal said.
Ms. Portillo, a renowned screenwriter and filmmaker, served on the selection jury. Professor Dave Davidson, the program’s director, said Ms. Pividal, a Spanish-born television journalist who came to CCNY on a La Caixa Foundation Fellowship in 2005, has the perfect combination of sensitivity and curiosity to be a documentary filmmaker. “She came to our MFA program as a seasoned journalist and it has been a great pleasure to see her further develop those skills in the documentary realm,” he said. Ms. Pividal’s master’s degree is in writing and directing documentary films.
Yolanda Pividal, a June 2007 graduate of CCNY’s M.F.A. in Media Arts Production program, won the $10,000 Fledgling Fund Award for Emerging Latino Filmmakers from the Independent Feature Project (IFP) for her thesis project “Tijuana Nada Mas.” 
