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AFI Bootcamp - Nov 11, 2017
LAUSD / USC Media Arts & Engineering Magnet was honored to be one of two LAUSD high schools selected to participate in this year’s inaugural AFI Storytelling Bootcamp. For three periods during one week in late October, two AFI alums visited Matthew Waynee’s Filmmaking 2 & 3 classes. . .
UProxx.com - Apr 24, 2017
. . .Combining their skills as filmmakers with a desire to create positive change around them, the young women on the LAUSD/USC Media Arts and Entertainment team came up with an amazing competition project. . . .
NBC4 - Los Angeles - Feb 5, 2017
. . ."We're promoting this message of girls building themselves and empowering themselves, but also promoting organizations who already do this for us," said student Somkene Okwuego. She attends the LAUSD/USC Media Arts and Engineering Magnet, one of 50 schools taking part in the Girls Build LA program. . . .
Magnet.edu - March 2017
. . .Waynee was also strategic in connecting with local experts in film and media like Dreamworks and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to help support the project and give students a real world experience. . . .
Variety - August 4, 2016
“We get a lot of students that come from low socio-economic households,” says Matthew Waynee, cinematic arts instructor. “So they might not have equipment at home like you might find in more affluent neighborhoods. This has really given them the opportunity to see what higher level of equipment they can learn film on. . . .
Vann's Shoes Grant - June 8, 2016
This grant has been key to our school’s ultimate goal of helping to change the face of the film industry right here in Los Angeles by creating opportunities for those same young adults who call Los Angeles home to break into the film world. . . .
LA SCHOOL REPORT - may 19, 2016
Three years ago, the school now known as LAUSD/ USC Cinematic Arts and Engineering Magnet converted from a performing arts magnet into one with a cinematic focus, and it hired Matthew Waynee to head up the new cinematic arts department. . . .
LAUSD DAILY - March 7, 2016
During a surprise announcement on Sunday,Waynee learned that he is one of eight finalists for National Magnet School Teacher of the Year, a prestigious recognition awarded by Magnet Schools of America.
“This is not just an award for me,” he said. “It’s an award for the whole school and what we’ve been able to build for our students.”...