It’s that time of year again to celebrate student filmmakers! Since 1972, the Student Academy Awards has honored the best and brightest from colleges and universities film students from all over the United States, and we’ve got just the right films to get you excited for this year’s winners! Binge watch films and speeches from past winners on our Student Academy Awards playlist:
The ceremony will take place this Thursday, September 17th at The Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Medals will be announced for the following 2015 winners:
Listed alphabetically by film title:
Alternative
Chiaroscuro, Daniel Drummond, Chapman University, California
Zoe, ChiHyun Lee, The School of Visual Arts, New York
Animation
An Object at Rest, Seth Boyden, California Institute of the Arts
Soar, Alyce Tzue, Academy of Art University, San Francisco
Taking the Plunge, Nicholas Manfredi and Elizabeth Ku-Herrero, The School of Visual Arts
Documentary
Boxeadora, Meg Smaker, Stanford University
I Married My Family’s Killer, Emily Kassie, Brown University
Looking at the Stars, Alexandre Peralta, University of Southern California
Narrative
Day One, Henry Hughes, American Film Institute, California
Stealth, Bennett Lasseter, American Film Institute
This Way Up, Jeremy Cloe, American Film Institute
Foreign Film
Everything Will Be Okay…, Patrick Vollrath, Filmakademie Wien, Austria
Fidelity, Ilker Çatak, Hamburg Media School, Germany
The Last Will, Dustin Loose, Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
Film School Shorts filmmakers who have won a Student Academy Award include Luke Matheny (God of Love), Mark Raso (Under), Mauro Mueller (Un Mundo para Raúl), Justin Tipping (Nani), Keola Racela (Above the Sea), Eusong Lee (Will), and Ashley Graham, Kate Reynolds, and Lindsey St. Pierre (Dia de los Muertos).
Watch:
Under
Un Mundo para Raúl
Above the Sea
Will
Dia de los Muertos