Ben Grossmann (A local Delta Homeschooler) Wins an Emmy Award

Laura Zoe Quist (from Ester, AK) and Benjamin Grossmann

“Mom, Dad, I won!” Those were the words Bruce and Dawn Grossmann heard from their son Ben on Saturday evening. Calling from backstage at the 2006 Creative Emmy Awards in LA, Ben was holding his golden prize and getting his picture taken. Ben, who grew up here in Delta and has been working in LA for the past five years, was nominated along with eight other coworkers for his work as a Supervising Compositer on the TV mini-series “The Triangle.” The Triangle was shown last December on the SciFi station for 3 nights. It is now available on DVD. He won the Emmy for “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Made for TV Movie or a Mini-Series.” There were five nominees in the category.

Ben and his sister Sarah were both working on the project from late summer all through the fall. It was the first project for Sarah in LA. Ben has had his hand in several other major motion pictures since working in LA. The recently released Hollow Man 2 features an interview with him as the Special Effects Supervisor on the Special Features portion of the DVD. Ben has been working as a freelance compositor and recently started his own visual effects company in LA. He is presently the Creative Director for Café FX, a major visual effects house in the industry.

Ben, a home schooler from Delta, attended UAF and worked for the FOX TV, Alaska One PBS and the Fairbanks NewsMiner before heading to LA.

The Creative Emmy Awards Show will be aired on the E channel August 26th. The Prime Time Emmy Award show will be aired on Aug 27th.