For the first time in the history of the Academy of Televisions Arts and Sciences annual student competition, five films produced from one film school have been selected to receive national awards.
Considered by many to be the world’s most prestigious award given to student films exhibited in a video format, this year’s prizes will be formally presented at a gala ceremony on March 28th at the Academy Theatre in Hollywood. The producers of the five winning films will be brought to Los Angeles, all expenses paid, for the event.
“ So many wins could be seen as a vulgar display of excess if they weren’t so richly deserved by our talented and well-trained student filmmakers, “ said FSU Film School dean Frank Patterson. “This makes thirteen top awards from the Academy in thirteen consecutive years,” he added.
FSU’s First Prize in Comedy was won by Zeke, a graduate thesis production directed by Dana Bunning and produced by Cassandra Henderson. The Plunge, a graduate thesis film directed by Todd Schulman and produced by Stephen Broussard, won second Prize. Second Prize in the Drama category was won by 3AM, a graduate thesis film directed by Stewart Hopewell and produced by Ivette Garcia Davila, and Third Prize was won by 17th Man, a graduate thesis film directed by Yimeng Jin and produced by Brooke Krinsky, Brett Jacobson, and Adam J. Kreps. Just To Say I Love You, an undergraduate thesis film directed by John Thursby and produced by Sloane Korach, won First Prize in the Musical category. In addition to their trophies, the First Prize winners will receive $2000, Second Prize winners will receive $1000, and Third Prize winners will receive $500.(2/13/04)