Celluloid dreams

The evening’s emcee, Mike Civille (right), an assistant professor who specializes in film production and the history of film, congratulates Gavin McGrath ’05 (left), who won two awards, including Best Documentary for The Next Hurrah, the story of Irish Americans’ political involvement in Boston. Civille is an active and popular teacher in the film studies program and, as one of the award-winners noted, received more thanks from the stage “than God.”