Scott L. Rindenow to Receive Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award

Longtime KCBS-TV staff Associate Director/Stage Manager Scott L. Rindenow will be the recipient of the Directors Guild of America’s 2000 Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award, DGA President Jack Shea and Awards Committee Chairperson Howard Storm announced today. The Schaffner Award, given to an Associate Director or Stage Manager in recognition of service to the industry and to the DGA, will be presented to Rindenow at the 52nd Annual DGA Awards on March 11, 2000, at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.

Rindenow, a DGA member since 1979, has been on staff with KCBS since 1980. Prior to joining KCBS he was an independent producer/director for his own company, SLR Productions, and worked as a freelance production manager and technical director for several studios and mobile facilities, producing many local commercials along with entertainment and sports segments for domestic and foreign television. At KCBS, has worked on every newscast and has won four Emmy Awards (most recently in 1999 for directing CBS2 News this Morning), five Golden Mike Awards and an Associated Press Award. As part of the KCBS news team Rindenow has covered events such as the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the Los Angeles riots, papal visits, firestorms, floods and the Academy Awards.

Rindenow has served the DGA as a member of the Associate Directors/Stage Managers/Production Associates (AD/SM/PA) Council since 1985 and was elected as an Alternate to the Guild’s National Board of Directors in 1991. He has served as the AD/SM/PA Council’s First and Second Vice Chairs, and was also the West Coast network representative for Directors, Associate Directors and Stage Managers for the Guild’s past five Network Staff contract negotiations.