The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 35th Annual Student Academy Awards ceremony was held earlier this evening at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The 2008 winners are (synopses from the Academy's website):
Honorary Foreign Film
On the Line (Auf der Strecke) (above), Reto Caffi, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
Alternative*
Gold Medal: Viola: The Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant, Shih-Ting Hung, University of Southern California
Silver Medal: Circles of Confusion (above), Phoebe Tooke, San Francisco State University
*Only two medals were awarded in the Alternative category.
Animation
Gold Medal: Zoologic, Nicole Mitchell, California Institute of the Arts
Silver Medal: Simulacra (top photo), Tatchapon Lertwirojkul, The School of Visual Arts, New York
Bronze Medal: The Visionary (above), Evan Mayfield, Ringling College of Art and Design, Florida
Documentary
Gold Medal: As We Forgive, Laura Waters Hinson, American University, Washington, D.C.
Silver Medal: Unattached, J.J. Adler, Columbia University
Bronze Medal: If a Body Meet a Body (above), Brian Davis, University of Southern California
Narrative
Gold Medal: A Day's Work, Rajeev Dassani, University of Southern California
Silver Medal: The State of Sunshine, Z. Eric Yang, Florida State University
Bronze Medal: Pitstop (above), Melanie McGraw, University of Southern California
In addition to the trophies, Gold Medal recipients received $5,000, Silver Medal recipients $3,000, Bronze Medal recipients $2,000, and the Honorary Foreign Film winner $1,000.
As per the Academy's press release, "the U.S. students first competed in one of three regional competitions. Each of those regions was permitted to send as many as three finalist films in each of the four award categories. Academy members then screened the films and voted to select the winners." On the Line (Auf der Strecke) "was selected from a pool of 43 submissions, representing foreign colleges and universities in 29 countries."
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