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Sixteen students from colleges and universities around the world were honored June 8 as winners at the 40th Student Academy Awards ceremony at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The medal placements were announced at the ceremony hosted by writer-director and 1978 Student Academy Award winner Bob Saget. Writer-director Kimberly Peirce and actors Clark Gregg, Jason Schwartzman and Quvenzhané Wallis presented the awards.
The winners are:
Alternative
Gold
Medal: "Bottled Up," Rafael Cortina, Occidental College
Silver
Medal: "Zug," Perry Janes, University of Michigan
Bronze
Medal: "The Compositor," John Mattiuzzi, School of Visual Arts
Animation
Gold
Medal: "Dia de los Muertos," Lindsey St. Pierre and Ashley
Graham, Ringling College of Art and Design
Silver Medal: "Will,"
Eusong Lee, California Institute of the Arts
Bronze Medal: "Peck
Pocketed," Kevin Herron, Ringling College of Art and Design
Documentary
Gold
Medal: "A Second Chance," David Aristizabal, University of
Southern California
Silver Medal: "Every Tuesday: A Portrait ofThe
New Yorker
Cartoonists," Rachel Loube, School of Visual Arts
Bronze Medal:
"Win or Lose," Daniel Koehler, Elon University
Narrative
Gold
Medal: "Ol' Daddy," Brian Schwarz, University of Texas at
Austin
Silver Medal: "Josephine and the Roach," Jonathan
Langager, University of Southern California
Bronze Medal: "Un
Mundo para Raúl (A World for Raúl)," Mauro Mueller, Columbia
University
Foreign
Film
Gold Medal: "Miss Todd," Kristina Yee, National Film
and Television School, United Kingdom
Silver Medal: "Parvaneh,"
Talkhon Hamzavi, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
Bronze
Medal: "Tweesprong (Crossroads)," Wouter Bouvijn, RITS School of
Arts, Erasmus University College Brussels, Belgium
This year saw first-time honors go to Elon University, Occidental College and the University of Michigan in the U.S. competition, as well as to Zurich University of the Arts and RITS School of Arts, Erasmus University College Brussels, in the foreign competition.
The Student Academy Awards were established in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level. Past Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 46 Oscar nominations and have won or shared eight awards. The roster includes such distinguished filmmakers as John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Robert Zemeckis, Trey Parker and Spike Lee.