2008 Student Academy Winners

Student Projects Land Gold And Bronze Awards

This past Saturday, at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences gave out the Student Academy Awards. While we knew that several USC films had placed, we did not know the position, but as Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking, Juno ) announced while giving out the Narrative Catagory awards,  "no one ever asks you what color was your student academy award."

We were lucky enough to have two gold winners and two bronze winners.

Congratulations to all our winners and nominees.


GOLD Student Academy Award for ALTERNATIVE film:

Viola: The Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant
Director/Animator:                               Shih-Ting Hung
Producer:                                               Joe Tamas
Cinematographer:                                 John Harrison
Sound Design:                                       Chevy Chen
Composer:                                            Natasha Miven
                                                              Cynthia Simonian


BRONZE Student Academy Award in DOCUMENTARY film:

If a Body Meet a Body
Director:                                               Brian Davis
Producers:                                            Sue Palmer
                                                             Rain Rucker
Cinematographer:                               David Woo
Editors:                                                José Asunción
                                                             Christopher Yogi
Sound:                                                  Jing Chen
                                                             David Welch
Original Music:                                     Andrea Datzman


GOLD Student Academy Award for  NARRATIVE film:

A Day’s Work
Writer/Director/Editor:                          Rajeev Dassani
Producers:                                             Charles Uy
                                                               Michael Tringe
                                                               Julie Sifuentes
Cinematographer:                                 Nicola Marsh
Editor:                                                   Manuel Martinez
Sound:                                                   Chris Brenner
                                                               Paul Fonarev
                                                               David Lankton
                                                               James Barth
Production Design:                                Clem Darling
                                                              Paul Barnaby


BRONZE Student Academy Award in NARRATIVE film:

Pitstop
Writer/Director:                                    Melanie Mcgraw
Cinematographer:                                Nicola Marsh
Producers:                                            Dina Gachman
                                                              Mary Posatko
                                                              Caitlin Taylor
Editors:                                                 Julien Guerif
                                                             Chris Cloyd
                                                             Miguel Becerra
Sound:                                                  Bethany Sparks
                                                             Dave Ciszewski
                                                             Elizabeth Johnson
                                                             Raj Patil
                                                             Tom Sanchez

Again, congratulations to all the films and crew.

Good luck in all future endeavors.


Allison Melanson
Student Industry Relations
Office of Festivals & Distribution