04 Student Academy Award Finalists Named

Beverly Hills, CA - Forty-one students from 23 US 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.

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.

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 Saturday, June 7, at 6 pm at the DGA Theater in Hollywood, at which time the gold, silver and bronze medalists will be revealed.

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 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

Eth no representation, 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 H hne, 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-Lumi re - The National Film, Photography & Sound Engineering School, France

The Oasis, Carl Marott, The National Film School of Denmark

Wo Wir Sind, Ilker atak, Hamburg Media School, Germany

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.

The 41st Student Academy Awards ceremony on June 7 is free and open to the public, but advance tickets are required. Tickets may be obtained online at www.oscars.org or by mail. Any remaining tickets will be made available at the door on the evening of the event.

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