First Look 2009 - Finalists

The Office of Student Industry Relations would like to announce this year's First Look Faculty Award winners, the six film finalists screening at the DGA and the Audience Award winner.

The winners of the seven Faculty Awards are:

Outstanding Cinematography	THE LAST TIME I SAW RACHEL CARPET KINGDOM	Collin Brink
Outstanding Directing	A DAY'S WORK	Rajeev Dassani
Outstanding Documentary	GET JUMPED IN	David Kaleo Woo
Outstanding Editing	CARRY ME HOME	Jeannette McDuffie and Bret Cornish
Outstanding Producers	ELEVATED	Cat Youell and Eric Bergemann
Outstanding Screenplay	GROWING UP VEGAS	Amber Beard
Outstanding Sound	BLOOD DEBTS	Sung Rok Choi and Sanjiv Solanki
Congratulations to all the First Look films and filmmakers who participated in this year's festival. * Full list of crew for all First Look films is available upon request *

The six film finalists screening at the Directors Guild of America are:
A DAY'S WORK   
CARPET KINGDOM  
GET JUMPED IN    
IN THE DARK
PITSTOP    
VIOLA: THE TRAVELING ROOMS OF THE LITTLE GIANT

 
Audience Award winner:

Carpet Kingdom
Love. Death. Carpet.

SYNOPSIS:
When a Carpet Store Baron dies, his nephew, a young Carpet Salesman, struggles to reconcile the family's desire for a respectable funeral with his eccentric uncle's final wishes.

The finalists will be competing for the FotoKem Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards. Everyone is invited to join us for the awards ceremony and screening of these jury-selected films at the DGA.


Directors Guild of America
7920 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90046

Screening starts promptly at 7:30 P.M.

Free underground parking is available on Hayworth, across (west) of the DGA.

Please RSVP at cinema.usc.edu/firstlook (No RSVP code is necessary.)

Contact:
Allison Melanson
213.740.4432
Student Industry Relations
Office of Festivals & Distribution


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