Cinema Studies Alumni Ben Murphy Receives Alumni Promise Award
![Ben Murphy and Chancellor Donde Plowman](https://art.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Ben-Murphy-Alumni-Awards-2023-sq-1-scaled.webp)
The Alumni Promise Award recognizes alumni no older than 40 who have demonstrated distinctive achievement in a career, civic involvement, or both. This award is presented to acknowledge alumni who are making a mark early on in their career.
In 2023, Ben Murphy, alumni of the Cinema Studies program received one of four Alumni Promise Awards from the university. Murphy, a Cleveland, Tennessee native, is a 2015 graduate of UT’s first class of cinema studies majors. He credits his film education to his professors and mentors Paul Harrill, Chuck Maland, and the late Bill Larsen.
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![2023 Alumni Award Gala winners with Ben Murphy second from right.](https://art.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Alumni-Awards-2023-Group-1024x684.webp)
![Ben Murphy with Cinema Studies faculty mentor Chuck Maland.](https://art.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Ben-Murphy-Alumni-Awards-2023-photo-2-1024x683.webp)
![Ben Murphy, left, with family and friends at Awards Gala.](https://art.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Ben-Murphy-Alumni-Awards-2023-photo-6-1024x683.webp)
![Ben Murphy receives Alumni Promise Award from Chancellor Donde Plowman.](https://art.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Ben-Murphy-Alumni-Awards-2023-photo-8-1024x768.webp)