The School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) at the University of Southern California (USC) continue to award the Dimitri Tiomkin Endowed Fund for Student Assistantships to qualified graduate students.
Recent beneficiaries are Caleb Lee Smith, Caleb Fuerst Townsend, Cory R. Gorman, Jonathan Miles Breiner, and Ziyi Wang (2022-2023); Dorothy Hyunjung Lee, Martin Lawrence Hilligoss, and Jiashu Li (2021-2022).
The scholarships provide financial support to graduate student assistants in the USC School of Cinematic Arts to support those advanced courses dedicated to music editing, scoring, and sound.
A total of fourteen students have received the prestigious award. Past recipients include Merawi Gerima (2017-2018); Miles Alva, Joshua Scammell, and Jack Walterman (2018-2019); Anna Cassady and James Grisom (2019-2020).
Miles Alva, producer for the 2021 feature Voodoo MacBeth.
Anna Cassady, Cinema Audio Society (CAS) student recognition award, 2021, and VoyageLA Rising Star, 2021.
Merawi Gerima, debut feature, Residue, received the Audience Award and Grand Jury Honorable Mention, Slamdance 2020.
James Grisom, Caucus Foundation recipient for his 2021 short film Eye for an I.
Joshua Scammell served as Sound Designer on Skinny Ghost (USC First Look, 2019).
Jack Walterman, producer, Breach of Trust (USC First Look, 2020), Industry Award: Documentary.
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For the Dimitri Tiomkin Endowed Fund for Student Assistantships preference is given to full-time graduate students who are selected as student assistants. Selected students must be making regular progress toward their degrees according to the rules and regulations of the school’s established programs, with an overall grade point average of 3.0 or better. Funds provide financial assistance including a tuition stipend and wages.
Made possible by an endowment from Volta Music Corp., the company Tiomkin incorporated in 1957 to control his music publishing rights and to receive income, including royalties, from his film (and later, television) music. The corporation is a publisher member of ASCAP.
Helping students into the future of cinema in sound and music.
READ: 2019 Tiomkin Fund recipients
READ: 2018 Tiomkin Fund recipients
