It is our pleasure to announce the winners of our Sixth Annual National Undergraduate Film Festival:

Winners

~ Best Picture ~
Action World
Aaron Fronk, Vince DeGaetano, and Cooper Johnson of Columbia College Chicago

~ Concord Award (Best Film Voted by the Audience) ~
Priceless
Jonathan Ong of The Art Institute of Pittsburgh

~ Best Directed ~
Action World
Aaron Fronk, Vince DeGaetano, and Cooper Johnson of Columbia College Chicago

~ Best Screenplay ~
Fresas
Jason Outenreath of Oberlin College

~ Frontiers Award (Most Original Film) ~
Old Man’s Tomb
Matt Reynolds of Bates College, and The Maine Media Workshops

~ Best Editing ~
Wandering Star
Anthony Hays and Matt Yoka of The University of Colorado, at Boulder

~ Best Acting ~
Garbage Day
Victor Suarez of Columbia University of New York and John Sadlik of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne

~ Best Cinematography ~
Warren Budd and his Propeller Plane
Jackson Adams of Emerson College

~ Opus Award (Best Use of Music & Sound) ~
Developer
Erica M. Hart of Northwestern University

TICKETS are now on sale at:
https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/8074105
General admission: $3
Add $2 to attend the post-event VIP reception at Haakon’s Hall

JUDGES

Jon Alpert has distinguished himself as an award-winning documentary filmmaker. He has won three Primetime Emmy Awards, eleven News & Documentary Emmy Awards, one National Emmy for Sports Programming, four Columbia DuPont Awards, and a Peabody Award. He was an Academy Award nominee this year for China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province. He is also co-founder and director of Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV), America’s largest and most honored non-profit community media center.

Michael Hausman received a BA from Cornell in 1957. He has produced or executive-produced most of Milos Forman’s films including Amadeus, Man on the Moon, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Ragtime, and Hair. He has also produced films for directors David Mamet, Mike Nichols, Robert Benton, Ang Lee, Richard Pearce, and Robert M. Young. Recently, he received an Emmy award for HBO’s Recount. He is president of Filmhaus and Cinehaus Inc. and has taught at Columbia since 1978.

Joan Stein Schimke was nominated for an Academy Award for One Day Crossing, which also won the Student Academy Award® Gold Medal and the DGA Best Woman Student Filmmaker. Other directing credits include several short films and an episode of “Law & Order.” She worked as Production Coordinator on Eric Mendelsohn’s 3 Backyards, Locations Coordinator on Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry, and assistant to director Bette Gordon on Luminous Motion. Joan is an Assistant Professor at Adelphi University and is currently developing a number of feature film projects.

Detailed schedule of events: http://www.cufestival.com/?p=155

Please remember to e-mail rsvp2cunuff@gmail.com with your name and “panel,” “presentation,” and/or “workshop” in the subject line, if you wish to attend any of the free afternoon events.

The post-production workshop is already full, but you will be placed on the waiting list.