37th Student Academy Awards Finalists
37 students from 21 colleges and universities have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 37th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):
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“Balance”
Debra Sea
University of North Carolina-Greensboro
“Multiply”
Emily Henricks
University of Southern California
“My Mother’s Prelude”
Imran Shafi
University of Southern California
“Surface: Film From Below”
Varathit Uthaisri
Parsons: The New School for Design, New York
“Water, Moon, Mirror, Flower”
Tianran Duan
University of Southern California
Animation
“Deadline”
Bang-yao Liu
Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia
“Departure of Love”
Jennifer Bors
Ringling College of Art and Design, Florida
“Down to the Bone”
Peter Ahern
Pratt Institute, New York
“Dried Up”
Isaiah Powers and Jeremy Casper
Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri
“Lifeline”
Andres Salaff
California Institute of the Arts
“Mashed”
Adam Fisher
Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
“Piece of Cake”
Eliza Ivanova
California Institute of the Arts
“The Wonder Hospital”
Beomsik Shimbe Shim
California Institute of the Arts
Documentary
“A’Plas”
Diego Colombi
Savannah College of Art and Design
“Arresting Ana”
Lucie Schwartz
University of California, Berkeley
“Dreams Awake (Sueña Despierto)”
Kevin Gordon and Rebekah Meredith
Stanford University, California
“Ecoviews: Three Stories from Chesapeake Bay”
Ted Roach and J.P. Eason
American University, Washington, D.C.
“My Name is Sydney”
Melanie Vi Levy
Stanford University
“Prayers for Peace”
Dustin Grella
School of Visual Arts, New York
“Rediscovering Pape”
Maria Royo
City College of New York
“When I’m 64”
Caitlin Brown
New York University
“Yizkor (Remembrance)”
Ruth Fertig
University of Texas at Austin
Narrative
“The Cemetary Club”
Geoffrey Booth and Yitz Brilliant
Columbia University, New York
“Day Labor”
Lowell Frank
San Diego State University, California
“Down in Number 5”
Kim Spurlock
New York University
“Equestrian Sexual Response”
Zeke Hawkins
American Film Institute, California
“God of Love”
Luke Matheny
New York University
“Inspector 42”
Nathan D. Lee and Lyvia Martinez
Brigham Young University
“The Last Bogatyr”
Sarah R. Lotfi and Kevin Beechwood
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
“The Lunch Box”
Lubomir Kocka
Savannah College of Art and Design
“Patrol”
John Ford
American Film Institute
