Student Awards and Achievements
School of Film 1997-98
A 3rd year MFA student's feature film Out of Season has been accepted into the Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney, Australia, The London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, The Turin Italy Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, The San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival - Feature Selection, The LA Outfest Film Festival - Los Angeles, CA, The New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and the Toronto Inside Out Film Festival.
A 2nd Year MFA student will be interning with a producer at Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in Los Angeles, CA during the months of May,June, July and August.
A first year MFA student has an internship; November-December 1997 - Public Affairs Assistant, NBC, Raleigh, NC.
A 3rd year BFA Honors student was awarded the Oustanding Senior Leader Award at the Fifteenth Annual OU Leadership Recognition Reception.
An MFA candidate was awarded first place overall at the James River Festival, Richmond, VA, for his/her film Puberty: Benjamin’s Special Time. The candidate was awarded $1,000.
A 2nd year MFA student's film Strange Encounters was accepted into the Cacalorus Film Festival in Wilmington, DE, April 16-20.
An MFA candidate was awarded the I. Hollis Parry/Ann Parry Billman Fine Arts Award in the amount of $5,000 for the 1998-99 academic year.
An MFA candidate served a one month internship as a film loader on the Feature Film "Perfect Prey", shot in Los Angeles, CA, September-August 1997.
A BFA Honors student is one of two regional winners from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Student Award and his/her film Single Spaced is in the running for a student Academy Award. The student won "Best Direction Award" for his/her film Single Spaced at the Hometown Cinema Festival, Indiana University, as well as a student award at the Hamptons International Film Festival, held in East Hamptons and Sag Harbor, October 1997. His/Her award was one of five undergraduate and five graduate student awards.
A first year BFA Honors student and a first year MFA student were selected to be student interns in the Kodak Worldwide Student Program at the American Pavilion at the Cannes International Film Festival. They will travel to Cannes in May to participate in 18 days of workshops and seminars at the festival.
A 3rd Year MFA student was one of three student finalists in the 48th annual American Cinema Editors Awards. He/She traveled to Los Angeles for a black tie dinner held at the Beverly Hills Hilton and received first place and his/her "Eddie" award for the A.C.E. Best Student Editing Award.
A 3rd Year MFA student's film My Mother Couldn’t Cook has been selected to be presented at the 1998 Silver Images Award, Chicago, IL, May 1-15, 1998. The film was also shown at the Cleveland International Film Festival, March 1998.
An MFA ‘98 graduate's Pavomania film was screened at the 14th Annual Latino Film Festival and the 17th annual Women in the Director’s Chair Film and Video Festival. It was also a finalist in the National Short Film and Video Competition at the 28th annual USA Film and Video Festival, April 1998. His/Her film The Other Woman was chosen to represent Venesuela in the Festival of Sao Paulo and Rio Janerio, Brazil and the Festival of Drama in Italy.
An MFA ‘98 graduate's feature film 1,000 Miles from Nowhere was accepted into the American Independent: category of the Cleveland International Film Festival, Cleveland, OH March 19-29th. The film was also shown at the Arizona International Film Festival, Tucson, AZ April 16-26.
An MFA ‘97 graduate received Best of Show at the Iowa Film Festival for his/her film Gifts from My Father. The film was chosen as the Critics Choice at the Women in the Director’s Chair Festival, and screened at the Smithsonian, Washington, DC, and was selected as one of the five films to be shown at the American Film Institute, Kennedy Center, April 25th, 1998.
He/She also received a Director's Award in the 17th Annual Black Maria International Film and Video Festival for Gifts from My Father. This is a travelling festival with 70 gigs in 26 states. The graduate received an award of $100 in the Experimental Film Category for Gifts from My Father at the 25th Athens International Film and Video Festival.An MAII ‘97 graduate re-designed and revamped his/her Recording Studio in Cleveland, OH to accommodate recording for the award winning rap group " Bones, Thugs and Harmony"
An MFA '96 graduate was a finalist for a Disney Fellowship, whose script was chosen as one of the top 20 out of 4,000.
An MFA ‘95graduate, the Educational Telecommunications Producer in the OU Telecommunications Center traveled to Vietnam in January 1998 to record the 30th anniversary of the Tet Offensive. The one hour documentary will chronicle the experience of two Athens residents and how the Tet Offensive affected their lives.
A BFA ’94 graduate's film Secrets was selected for the USC First Look Festival and was screened at the Director’s Guild Theater, Los Angeles, October 4, 1997.
An MFA ‘76 graduate, one of Pennsylvania’s best known filmmakers, was honored by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts as its 1998 Artist of the Year.