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| Winners Announced
and Finalists Selected for Student Academy Awards® |
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Hills, CA - Twelve film students from ten U.S. universities were honored yesterday (June 10) as winners in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 28th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. They 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 Mexico also was honored by the Academy, receiving this year's Honorary Foreign Film Award. |
| Following are this year's winners (alphabetical by film title within category): |
| Alternative
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Gold
medal: Warmth
by Michael Schaerer
School of Visual Arts, New York |
| Animation
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Gold
medal: Boobie Girl
by Brooke Keesling
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
Silver
medal: The Yellow Umbrella
by Victor Robert and Rodney Hom
Center College of Design, Pasadena,
California
Bronze medal:
That Special Monkey
by Sean McBride
University of the Arts, Philadelphia
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| Documentary
Category |
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Gold
medal: XXXY
by Porter Gale and Laleh Soomekh
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CaliforniaSilver
medal: Green by Laura Dunn
University of Texas, Austin
Bronze medal:
Undesirables by Marianna Yarovskaya
University of Southern
California |
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| Narrative
Category |
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Gold
medal: The Confession
by Carl Pfirman
University of California, Los Angeles
Silver
medal: Lector
by Greg Marcks
Florida State University, Tallahassee
Bronze medal:
Zen and the Art of Landscaping
by David Kartch |
| Honorary
Foreign Film |
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The Eye on the Nape
by Rodrigo Pla
Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica, Mexico City, Mexico |
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While the students knew they would each receive an award, the level of that award - gold, silver or bronze - was not revealed until the ceremony. Only Schaerer, the sole recipient in the alternative category and therefore an automatic gold medal winner, and Pla attended the ceremony knowing exactly what they'd won. Besides trophies, gold
medallists received $5,000, silver medallists are awarded $3,000 and bronze medal recipients are presented with $2,000.
Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates ("Misery," 1990) presented the awards in the alternative and documentary categories; Oscar-nominated actor Randy Quaid ("The Last Detail," 1973) served as presenter for the animation and narrative categories. Academy President Robert Rehme presented the Honorary Foreign Film Award.
The American students first competed in one of three regional competitions. Each of those regions was permitted to send to the Academy as many as three films in each of the four categories as finalists. Academy members then screened the films and voted to select the winners.
The Honorary Foreign Film winner was selected from an original pool of 27 submissions from 23 countries. This is the second time that a Mexican student film has won this particular award. Javier Bourges, who attended the same school as Pla, was the 1993 recipient. |
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Finalists Selected for Student Academy Awards
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Beverly Hills, CA - Thirty-eight students from 22 colleges and universities around the country have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 28th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. Their films will now 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 10 with the awards presentation ceremony at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
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| The finalists are (alphabetical by film title within category): |
| Alternative
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Any Creature
by Patrick Daughters,
New York University.
The Beginning of Time by Aina Abio Dun,
University of California, Los Angeles.
The Girl from Marseilles by Cathy Crane,
San Francisco State University.
Not Waving but Drowning by Megan Griffiths,
Ohio University.
Pomegranate by Ham Tran,
UCLA.
Smoke Rings by Jason Dickerson and Jorge Serrano,
Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Warmth by Michael Schaerer,
School of Visual Arts, New York. |
| Animation
Category |
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Boobie Girl
by Brooke Keesling,
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California.
Dream by Masayo Nishimura,
School of Visual Arts, New York.
Excuses, Excuses by Christopher Timmons,
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.
Fear of Frowning by Peter Postma,
Rochester Institute of Technology, New York.
Hue by Andrew Hodges,
Columbia College, Chicago.
Night Sweats
by Dave Lebow,
California Institute of the Arts.
Silhouette by Tonya Noerr and Amber Rudolph,
Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida.
That Special Monkey by
Sean McBride,
University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
The Yellow Umbrella by
Victor Robert and Rodney Hom,
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. |
| Documentary
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Green
by Laura Dunn,
University of Texas, Austin.
Homers by Sophie Goodhart,
New York University.
In Between Days
by Lori Lovoy-Goran,
University of Southern California.
Losing Your Grip: A Family's Battle with ALS
by F. Hatton Littman,
Boston University.
The Playroom
by Rafael Del Toro,
New York University.
Undesirables by Marianna Yarovskaya,
University of Southern California.
XXXY
by Porter Gale and Laleh Soomekh,
Stanford University. |
| Narrative
Category |
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Bean Cake
by David Greenspan,
University of Southern California.
Chaperone
by Victor Buhler,
New York University.
The Confession by Carl Pfirman,
UCLA.
Fair Play by Leo Wong and Joanie Wread,
American Film Institute, Los Angeles.
Finbar Lebowitz by Jennifer Smith and Rona Mark,
Columbia University, New York.
Funky Town by Doug Heder and Matthew Janzen,
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
Lector by Greg Marcks,
Florida State University.
Terry by Thomas Mogle,
Southern Illinois University.
Zen and the Art of Landscaping
by David Kartch,
Columbia 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 to 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. (This year's cash prizes have been increased from the past awards of $2,000, $1,500 and $1,000.) An Honorary Foreign Film Award also will be presented. Finalists for that award this year are individual students from the Netherlands, France, Mexico, Germany and Poland. |
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