Forty-one students from 23 U.S. colleges and universities as well as 10 students from foreign universities have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 41st Student Academy Awards competition.
To reach this stage, U.S. students competed in one of three regional competitions. Each region is permitted to send to the Academy up to three finalists in each of the four categories. The Student Academy Awards nominating committee screened and voted on the finalists in the foreign film category.
Academy members will now vote to determine up to three winning films in each category. The winners, but not their medal placements, will be announced later this month. The winning students will be brought to Los Angeles for a week of industry activities and social events that will culminate in the awards ceremony on June 7, at 6 p.m., at the DGA Theater in Hollywood, at which time the gold, silver and bronze medalists will be revealed.
The Academy established the Student Academy Awards in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level. Past Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 46 Oscar nominations and have won or shared eight awards. They include John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Robert Zemeckis, Trey Parker and Spike Lee.
The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):
Alternative
Dreamers
Joseph Dwyer, Boston University
Entropic Apogee
Bill Manolios, Art Institute of California – San Francisco
Jaspa’ Jenkins
Robert Carnilius, Columbia College Chicago
Oscillate
Daniel Sierra, School of Visual Arts, New York
Passer Passer
Louis Morton, University of Southern California
Person
Drew Brown and Ramona Ramdeen, The Art Institute of Jacksonville, Florida
The Private Life of Fenfen
Leslie Tai, Stanford University
Staircases
Steinar Bergoy Nedrebo, School of Visual Arts, New York
Animation
Baxter
Ty Coyle, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia
Goodnight Boon
Jeremy Jensen, New York University
Higher Sky
Teng Cheng, University of Southern California
Marcel
Eric Cunha and Seung Sung, School of Visual Arts, New York
Owned
Daniel Clark and Wesley Tippetts, Brigham Young University, Utah
Animation continued
Roadkill Redemption
Karl Hadrika, Ringling College of Art and Design, Florida
Two Ghosts
Amy Lee Ketchum, University of Southern California
Umbra
Pedro Jesus Atienzar Godoy, Pratt Institute, New York
Yamashita
Hayley Foster, Loyola Marymount University, California
Documentary
The Apothecary
Helen Hood Scheer, Stanford University
Ethnorepresentation
Ryan Metzler and Scott Kulicke, Occidental College, California
Heel’d
Thomas Smith and McKenna Hinkle, Villanova University, Pennsylvania
Light Mind
Jie Yi, School of Visual Arts, New York
My Sister Sarah
Elizabeth Chatelain, University of Texas at Austin
One Child
Zijian Mu, New York University
Punches & Pedicures
Ashley Brandon and Dennis Höhne, Wright State University, Ohio
Scattered
Lindsay Lindenbaum, School of Visual Arts, New York
White Earth
J. Christian Jensen, Stanford University
Narrative
AM800
James Roe, University of New Orleans
Above the Sea
Keola Racela, Columbia University, New York
Door God
Yulin Liu, New York University
Interstate
Camille Stochitch, American Film Institute, California
Istifa (Resignation)
Rahat Mahajan, Art Center College of Design, California
So You’ve Grown Attached
Kate Tsang, New York University
Sweepstakes
Mark Tumas, Temple University, Pennsylvania
Way in Rye
Goran Stankovic, American Film Institute, California
What Remains
Julie Koegl, University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Foreign Film
Border Patrol
Peter Baumann, The Northern Film School, United Kingdom
Intruder
Geun Buem Park, Korean Academy of Film Arts, South Korea
Kam
Katarina Morano, University of Ljubljana – Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, Slovenia
Nocebo
Lennart Ruff, University of Television and Film Munich, Germany
North
Philip Sheerin, National Film and Television School, United Kingdom
Paris on the Water
Hadas Ayalon, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Sacred Defense
Nima Mohaghegh, Netherlands Film Academy
Souffle Court
Johann Dulat, ENS Louis-Lumière – The National Film, Photography & Sound Engineering School, France
The Oasis
Carl Marott, The National Film School of Denmark
Wo Wir Sind
Ilker Çatak, Hamburg Media School, Germany
