Student Academy Awards Announced

Short Film News (SFN) - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 35th Annual Student Academy Awards winners announced.

Eleven students from eight colleges and universities have been named as awards winners and will receive their prizes in the awards ceremony on June 7 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

They will also participate in a week of industry-related activities and social events.

One film student from Germany has also been selected to receive this year's Honorary Foreign Film award. This film was selected from a pool of 43 entries representing 29 countries.

The U.S. winners know they will each receive an award, but their placement - Gold, Silver or Bronze- will not be revealed until the June 7 ceremony.

The full list of winners is here:

Alternative
- Circles of Confusion by Phoebe Tooke, San Francisco State University
- Viola: The Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant by Shih-Ting Hung, University of Southern California

Animation
- Simulacra by Tatchapon Lertwirojkul, The School of Visual Arts
- The Visionary by Evan Mayfield, Ringling College of Art and Design, Florida
- Zoologic by Nicole Mitchell, California Institute of the Arts

Documentary
- As We Forgive by Laura Waters Hinson, American University, Washington, D.C.
- If a Body Meet a Body by Brian Davis, University of Southern California
- Unattached by J.J. Adler, Columbia University

Narrative
- A Day's Work by Rajeev Dassani, University of Southern California
- Pitstop by Melanie McGraw, University of Southern California
- The State of Sunshine by Z. Eric Yang, Florida State University

Honorary Foreign Film
On the Line (Auf der Strecke) by Reto Caffi, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany

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