2008 UFVA AWARD WINNERS

he following work was honored at the 62nd Annual Conference of the University Film and Video Association held at Colorado College on August 12-16, 2008


FILMMAKING COMPETITION

EXPERIMENTAL/ANIMATION
Faculty Award Winner
"Themes and Variations for the Naked Eye"
Caitlin Horsmon, University of Missouri, Kansas City

Finalist –"Leonard Hotel Suite"
Michael Murphy and Mark Shogren
University of Montana, Missoula


DOCUMENTARY
Faculty Award Winner – "Standing Silent Nation"
Courtney Hermann, The Art Institute of Portland

Finalists
"My American Neighbor"
Irina Patkanian, Brooklyn College–CUNY

"Saving Faces"
H. James Gilmore, University of Michigan, Dearborn


NARRATIVE
Faculty Award Winner – "Quick Feet, Soft Hands"
Paul Harrill, Virginia Tech

Finalists
“Second Egyptian"
Irina Patkanian, Brooklyn College–CUNY,

"Brothers"
Troy Perkins, University of Wisconsin,Oshkosh

"Finders Keepers"
Andrew Lund, Hunter College-CUNY

The Cleaner"
Michael Gunter, University of Central Arkansas



NEW MEDIA

Technical Merit – “What’s in Your Suitcase?”
Wenhua Shi, UC Berkeley

Artistic Merit – “Smoke and Mirrors”
Debra Tolchinsky, Northwestern University

Scholarly Merit – “Partition Revisited”
Leena Jayaswal, American University

Contribution to new media forms
“Genesis: Mishaps in the Kitchen”
Francesca Talenti, University of North Carolina

Excellence Award – For Depth and Intention in content and complexity
“I in Control”
Tania Khalaf and Daryn Williams, University of North Texas

Excellence Award – Curious curb appeal -- the immediate “wow”!
“Navel Gazing and Up in Smoke”
Ellen Wetmore, U Mass Lowell

Best of Show– “What’s in Your Suitcase?”
Wenhua Shi, UC Berkeley


PAPER PRIZE COMPETITION (for papers deliver at 2007 Conference)

1st Place – “Playing It Straight: Reality Dating Shows and the Construction of Heterosexuality”
Stephen Tropiano, Ithaca College (Los Angeles)

2nd Place – “Dark Shadows, 1970: The Leviathan Plotline and the Return of the Repressed”
Rick Worland, Southern Methodist University

3rd Place – “King Hu’s Come Drink with Me and the Birth of the Modern Martial Arts Cinema”
George Chun Han Wang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas


FACULTY SCRIPTWRITING COMPETITION

1st Place – "Fruit Of The Tree" by Aaron Greer, U Alabama

2nd Place – "The Red Queen" by David Bennett Carren

3rd Place – "Mesopotamia 2020" by Mick Hurbis-Cherrier, Hunter College-CUNY