Academy Announces Finalists for 2009 Student Academy Awards®

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Thirty-six students from 20 colleges and universities have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 36th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. Academy members will view these films at special screenings and vote to select the winners. Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards, along with accompanying cash prizes of $5,000, $3,000 and $2,000, respectively, may be presented in each of four categories. Winning filmmakers will participate in a week of industry-related and social activities, culminating in the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 13.

The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):

Alternative

“Alice’s Attic,” Robyn Yanoukos, University of California, Los Angeles
“Breathe,” Sean Conaty and John Thompson, University of Southern California
“Matter, In Quiescent State Prepares Itself to be Transformed,” Kwibum Chung, School of Visual Arts, New York
“Subconscious,” Jason Chen, University of the Arts, Pennsylvania
“Thirty-One Thousand Feet Above,” Imran Shafi, University of Southern California

Animation

“Cadillac ‘59,” Hamilton Lewis, Ringling College of Art and Design, Florida
“Divers,” Paris Mavroidis, Pratt Institute, New York
“Entering the Mind through the Mouth,” Jin Sung Choi, Academy of Art University, California
“I Live in the Woods,” Max Winston, California Institute of the Arts
“Kites,” Jud Henry, Brigham Young University
“Lilium Urbanus,” Joji Tsuruga and Anca Risca, School of Visual Arts
“Pajama Gladiator,” Glenn Harmon, Brigham Young University
“Scrimshander,” George Smaragdis, Pratt Institute
“Sebastian’s Voodoo,” Joaquin Baldwin, University of California, Los Angeles

Documentary

“Close to Home,” Theo Rigby, Stanford University
“In Circles,” Emile Bokaer and Alaa Eldin El Dajani, Stanford University
“The Last Mermaids,” Liz Chae, Columbia University
“Nutkin’s Last Stand,” Nicholas Berger, Stanford University
“A Place to Land,” Lauren DeAngelis, American University, Washington, D.C.
“Sustaining Life,” Robert Hess, Savannah College of Art and Design
“Three Pilots,” Philip Leaman, University of Michigan
“The Wait,” Cassandra Lizaire and Kelly Asmuth, Columbia University
“Win or Lose: A Summer Camp Story,” Louis Lapat, Columbia University

Narrative

“After the Storm,” Michael Green, Florida State University
“Bohemibot,” Brendan Bellomo, New York University
“The Bronx Balletomane,” Jeremy Joffee, City College of New York
“Ida y Vuelta (Round Trip),” David Martin-Porras, University of California, Los Angeles
“Kavi,” Gregg Helvey, University of Southern California
“1915,” Marco Garcia, University of North Carolina
“Short Term 12,” Destin Cretton, San Diego State University
“Transposition,” Joshua Overbay, Regent University, Virginia
“Una y Otra Vez,” Antonio Mendez, Columbia University

Five finalists, selected from a record 57 entries representing 39 foreign countries, will compete for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2009 Honorary Foreign Film award in the 36th Annual Student Academy Awards® competition. The winning student filmmaker will be brought to Los Angeles to join U.S.-based Student Academy Award winners for a week of industry-related activities and social events that will culminate in the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 13 in Beverly Hills.

The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):
“Elkland,” Per Hanefjord, Dramatiska Institutet, Sweden
“Face-to-Face Confrontation,” Igor Khomsky, Gerasimov Institute of
Cinematography, Russia
“The Incredible Story of My Great Grandmother Olive,” Alberto Rodreguz,
National Film and Television School, United Kingdom
“Our Wonderful Nature,” Tomer Eshed, HFF Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany
“Pinhas,” Pini Tavger, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Several past winners in the Honorary Foreign Film competition have gone on to earn further recognition by the Academy. Last year’s winner, Reto Caffi, received a nomination in the Live Action Short Film category for his film “Auf der Streke (On the Line)” at the 81st Academy Awards this past February. In 2005, at the 78th Academy Awards, student winner Ulrike Grote’s “Ausreisser (The Runaway)” was nominated in the Live Action Short Film category. At the 75th Academy Awards, student winner Martin Strange-Hansen of Denmark won the Oscar® in the Live Action Short Film category for “This Charming Man (Der Er Eu Yudig Mand).” He had won the Honorary Foreign Film award that same year (2002) with “Feeding Desire.” In 2000 Florian Gallenberger of Germany won both the Honorary Foreign Film award and the Oscar in the Live Action Short Film category with “Quiero Ser (I Want to be…).”

Two other previous winners, Jan Sverak, who was a student in the former Czechoslovakia, and Mike van Diem of The Netherlands, have gone on to direct films that won Oscars® in the Foreign Language Film category.

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 37 Oscar® nominations and have won or shared six awards. Two former Student Academy Award winners were nominees at the 81st Academy Awards held earlier this year – Pete Docter received his fourth nomination for the Original Screenplay for “WALL-E,” and Reto Caffi, last year’s Honorary Foreign Film award winner, received his first nomination for the live action short film “Auf der Strecke (On the Line).”

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