- KODAK Vision Award — $3,000 Tuition Scholarship Award & $5,000 KODAK Motion Picture Product Grant. To qualify for this award, a minimum of 50 percent of the submission was required to be shot on film. DP Jomo Fray, Worcester, Mass., a graduate student at New York University Tisch School of the Arts,was selected for his drama Get Out Fast, which was shot on s16mm and Super 8, using a mix of KODAK VISION3 color negative film, s16mm 250D and 500T and s8 500T. Says Fray, “The film required a look that was at once organic and also electric. After shooting countless tests, that could only truly be achieved by shooting on film.” In this skillfully shot drama, a 15-year- old boy remembers his best friend, Coyote Boy, a restless, train-hopping drifter who has gone missing from their small town.
- First Place — $3,000 Tuition Scholarship Award & $5,000 KODAK Motion Picture Product Grant. Writer-director-DP Sonja Tsypin, New York, N.Y., an undergrad at Bard College in Hudson, N.Y., was chosen forher dramatic narrative Powder Room and will be attending the American Film Institute as a cinematography fellow in the fall. Her half-hour drama follows Vera, star of a wildly popular online video channel who hasn’t left her apartment in over four years, her struggle with confronting her past and, ultimately, facing herself.
- KODAK Vision Award, Honorable Mention — $1,000 Tuition Scholarship Award & $500 KODAK Motion Picture Product Grant. Shot on KODAK VISION3 s16mm 200T color negative film, cinematographer Thomas Doran, Cardiff, Wales, received an honorable mention for his fantasy short The Sea, the God and the Man. Doran is studying at the National Film and Television School in the U.K. In the film, an ancient Asian god of water, abandoned by his worshippers, returns to the boat that brought him west many years prior in search of new followers. There, he finds a man who has made the vessel his home in order to escape the encroaching threat of urbanization.
- Gold Award — $5,000 Tuition Scholarship Award & $5,000 KODAK Motion Picture Product Grant. Cinematographer and director Lauren Gillis Mueller hails from Portland, Ore., and is studying at Duke University, Durham, N.C. Her docu-fiction The Gibbons of Santa Clarita takes a look at the psychological effects captivity can have on the endangered ape species, Gibbons.
- Silver Award — $3,000 Tuition Scholarship Award & $3,000 KODAK Motion Picture Product Grant. Nathan Hughes-Berry, from Liverpool, England, and a graduate student at York University in Toronto, directed and produced The Substitute. In this horror-thriller, a young teacher takes a job at an unusual private school where she soon discovers the boys have a sinister power over the girls … Could an ominous locked door at the back of the classroom be causing the strange behavior?
- Bronze Award — $2,000 Tuition Scholarship Award & $3,000 KODAK Motion Picture Product Grant. Mounia Akl, Beirut, Lebanon, studying for her masters in fine arts at New York’s Columbia University School of the Arts, wrote and directed Submarine. In this thoughtful drama, under the imminent threat of Lebanon’s garbage crisis, a young woman refuses to evacuate, clinging to whatever remains of home.
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