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| Winners Announced
and Finalists Selected for Student Academy Awards® |
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Hills, CA - Eleven film students from eight U.S.
universities were honored yesterday (June 9) as winners
in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 29th
Annual Student Academy Awards competition. The winners
participated in several days of industry-related
activities and social events prior to the awards
presentation ceremony at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn
Theater. A film student from Denmark also was honored by
the Academy, receiving this year's Honorary Foreign Film
Award. |
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| Actor
Michael McKean Presented the Gold Medal
Student Academy Award in the Narrative
Category to New York University student
Jessica Sharzer |
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are this year's winners (alphabetical by film title
within category): |
| Alternative
Category |
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Gold
medal: For Our Man by Kazuo
Ohno
Columbia University, New
York
Silver medal: Island
to Island by Soopum Sohn
New York University, New
York |
| Animation
Category |
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Gold
medal: Passing
Moments by Don Phillips Jr.
Ringling School of Art and
Design, Sarasota, Florida
Silver
medal: The
Velvet Tigress
by Jen Sachs
California Institute
of the Arts, Valencia
Bronze medal:
Shadowplay
by Dan Blank
New York University,
New York
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| Documentary
Category |
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Gold
medal: Moving House
by Pin Pin Tan
Northwestern University, Evanston, IllinoisSilver
medal: Family Values
by Eva Saks
New York University,
New York
Bronze medal:
Revolutions Per Minute
by Thomas Burns
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California |
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| Narrative
Category |
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Gold
medal: The Wormhole
by Jessica Sharzer
New York University, New
York
Silver
medal: Barrier Device
by Grace Lee
University of California, Los Angeles
Silver
medal: Sophie
by Helen Haeyoung Lee
University of Texas at Austin |
| Honorary
Foreign Film |
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Feeding Desire
by Martin Strange-Hansen
National Film School of Denmark in Copenhagen |
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While the U.S.-based students knew they would each receive an award, the level of that award - gold, silver or bronze - was not revealed until the ceremony. Besides trophies, gold medal winners receive $5,000; silver medal winners are awarded $3,000 and bronze medal winners take home $2,000.
Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Freida Lee Mock presented the awards in the documentary category; Oscar(R)-nominated screenwriter Alexander Payne presented the Honorary Foreign Film Award and the medals in the alternative category and Actors Branch member Michael McKean served as presenter for the narrative and animation categories.
These students first competed in one of three regional competitions. Each region was permitted to send the Academy as many as three films in each of the four categories. The finalist films were then screened and voted on by Academy members to select the winners.
The Honorary Foreign Film winner, who received a $1,000 cash grant, was selected from a pool of 33 entries from 23 countries. This is the third time a student from the National Film School of Denmark has won this award. Reza Parsa won in 1996 for his film "Never," and in 1983, Ingrid Oustrup Jensen received the award for her film "Over My Dead Body."
The Student Academy Awards were established by the Academy in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level. |
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Finalists Selected for Student Academy Awards®
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Beverly Hills, CA - Thirty-two students from 18 colleges and universities around the country have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 29th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. Their films will be voted upon by Academy members and those students ultimately selected as winners will be flown to Los Angeles to participate in a week of industry-related activities and social events that will culminate June 9 with the awards presentation ceremony at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
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| Alternative
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"Birju," Heeraz Marfatia, San Francisco State University
"Counterfeit Film," Brett Simon, University of California, Berkeley
"For Our Man," Kazuo Ohno, Columbia University, New York
"From Island to Island," Soopum Sohn, New York University
"Interlude," Elizabeth Randall, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle
"Legalized America," Michael Ball, Boston University
"Newton," Peter Sattler and Jeff Mason, North Carolina School of the Arts,Winston-Salem |
| Animation
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"Ash Sunday," Corrie Francis, Dartmouth College, Hanover,New Hampshire
"Blind Date," Chris Choy, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
"Floating," Chansoo Kim, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
"Gladden," Ian Butterfield, Ohio State University, Columbus
"Passing Moments," Don Phillips, Jr., Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
"Shadowplay," Dan Blank, New York University
"Trilemma," Ye Won Cho, School of Visual Arts, New York
"The Velvet Tigress," Jen Sachs, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia |
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"Back to Back," Heather Lenz, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
"Become the Sky," Laura Dunn, University of Texas at Austin
"Family Values," Eva Saks, New York University
"Moving House," Pin Pin Tan, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
"Precipice," Elizabeth Witham and Biz James, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
"Revolutions Per Minute," Thomas Burns, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California |
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"Barrier Device," Grace Lee, University of California, Los Angeles
"Get Outta Here," Tony Shaff, North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem
"Mboutoukou," Victor Viyuoh, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
"Remote Control," Ivan Zivkovic and Peter Veverka, American Film Institute, Los Angeles
"Slo-Mo," John Krokidas, New York University
"Sophie," Helen Haeyoung Lee, University of Texas at Austin
"Train Wreck," Michael Sedlacek, Columbia University, New York
"The Wormhole," Jessica Sharzer, New York University |
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To reach this stage, students competed in one of three regional competitions. Each of those regions was permitted to send the Academy up to three finalist films in each of the four categories. Academy members may now choose to present awards to as many as three films in each of the categories. Along with their trophies, Gold Medal winners in each of the four categories receive $5,000; Silver Medal winners take home $3,000 and Bronze Medal recipients are awarded $2,000. An Honorary Foreign Film Award, which includes a $1,000 cash grant, also will be presented. Finalists for that award this year are individual students from Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden.
The Student Academy Awards were established by the Academy in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level. |
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