It is our pleasure to announce the winners of our Fifth Annual National Undergraduate Film Festival (full results and coverage here):

Winners

~ Best Picture ~
Color by Number
Marshall Rimmer of University of Texas at Austin

~ Concord Award (Best Film Voted by the Audience) ~
Paul and His Wall
Steven Anderson and Evan Harbuck of Florida State College of Motion Picture, Television, and Recording Arts

~ Best Directed ~
The Booby Trap
Simon Pennekamp of Columbia College Chicago

~ Best Screenplay ~
The Booby Trap
Simon Pennekamp of Columbia College Chicago

~ Frontiers Award (Most Original Film) ~
Token Hunchback
Tim Reckart of Harvard University

~ Best Editing ~
Paul and His Wall
Steven Anderson and Evan Harbuck of Florida State College of Motion Picture, Television, and Recording Arts

~ Best Acting ~
The Booby Trap
Simon Pennekamp of Columbia College Chicago

~ Best Cinematography ~
Paul and His Wall
Steven Anderson and Evan Harbuck of Florida State College of Motion Picture, Television, and Recording Arts

~ Opus Award (Best Use of Music & Sound) ~
Color by Number
Marshall Rimmer of University of Texas at Austin

All the finalists and honorable mentions can be seen here. Be sure to read the filmmaker bios while you’re there!

You are cordially invited to a night of mind-blowing student films, talk, and food! Everything is undergraduate — truly an experience that can’t be found anywhere else. Judging this year are Oscar-nominated director and producer Oren Jacoby; Seymour Wishman, president of First Run Features; and Marc Wishengrad of Wishengrad Pictures Inc. Tickets will be sold at the TIC very soon — keep an eye out for announcements!

• Date:   Saturday, April 11, 2009
• Time:   7:00pm – 10:00pm
• Location:
  Roone Arledge Cinema, Lerner Hall
  Columbia University
  115th & Broadway
  New York, NY 10027