February 9, 2021
Joel Gonzalez, lauded as a âvery creative thinker,â wins a 2020 Amy J. Blue Award
Joel Gonzalez, a media technician in Event Services, will receive an Amy J. Blue Award on Feb. 11. The award honors staff members who are exceptionally dedicated, supportive of colleagues and passionate about their work.
By Kathleen J. Sullivan
As an undergraduate majoring in biology at the University of the Philippines in the early 1980s, Joel Gonzalez thought he might one day become a doctor.
Joel Gonzalez (Image credit: Andrew Brodhead)
But a summer class in a style of documentary filmmaking known as âcinema directâ helped set him on a completely different career path, one that would eventually include producing television documentaries focused on poverty and rebellion in the Philippines.