2009 Film Finalists
DRAMA
No Wind, No Waves - Julian Higgins, Emerson College
Return of the Elephant - Max Grey, Brown University
La Vita del Pozzo - Joshua Gibson, Duke University
The Dying Western - Michael Kortlander, Ohio University Honors Tutorial College, School of Media Arts and Studies
Wódeczka i Panienki - Xavier Tatarkiewicz, UCLA
DOCUMENTARY
New Uke City - Clyde Folley, Vassar College
Riding Tall - Caitlin Mae Burke, Vassar College
Memorize-you-saw-it - Jon Betz, RISD
COMEDY
The Happy Man’s Pants - Kunal Savkur, Northwestern University
The Good Side - Lawrence Chen, Duke University
Bruno & Jasper Find a Hobby - Ben Perry, NYU
Break-Up Album - Aaron Walker, University of Pennsylvania
This is Umberto. - Anna Krutzik, University of Wisconsin
The Littlest Greyhound - Kelsey Montague, Richmond, The American International University in London
EXPERIMENTAL
Random Access Memory - Gavin Rehder, Minnesota State University
Space - Mike Wilson, University of Idaho
Together with Purpose - Valeria Iavtouhovitsh, Brown University
Merleau-Ponty - Jonathan Taee, University of Virginia
ANIMATION
Izanami & Izanagi - Allie Takahashi, Oberlin College
Only Love - Lev Polyakov, School of Visual Arts
Token Hunchback - Timothy Reckart, Harvard University
Id - Yoonah Nam, School of the Art Inst. of Chicago
GRADUATE
Beholden - David Jibladze, Chapman University
Symphony - Erick Oh, UCLA
Serenade - Ruowen Yan, City College of New York
The Last Page - Kevin Acevedo, Chapman University
Empire - Alex DeMille, UCLA
Le Paradis de L’Imbecile - Patrick Griffin, Savannah College Art & Design
INTERNATIONAL
Auf Grund - Manaledi La Roche, Lucerne Univ., Switzerland
Niemand Nicht Weiss - Severin Kuhn, Lucerne Univ., Switzerland
Illusion Dwellers - Robb Ellender, Royal College of Art, UK
Land Gewinnen - Marc Brummund, Hamburg Media School, Germany
2009 Screenplay Finalists
UNDERGRAD LONG
All Souls - Anabel Graff, Vassar College
Hard to Get - Katherine Silberman, Dartmouth University
Knight Skies - Eric Heisner, Columbia College Chicago
Opaque - Timothy Terhaar, Brown University
Shoot the Freak - Benjamin Brooke, University of Pennsylvania
UNDERGRAD SHORT
Broken Down - Chris Garthwaite, Cornell University
Egret Point - Griffin Gould, University of Pennsylvania
Light Out on Bourbon - Jessica Gonzalez, Penn State
Tom, Dick, and Harry - Hannah Checkley, Emerson College
GRADUATE
Welcome to Rainbow Trout - Brian Comfort, University of Massachusetts
Run For Your Life - Melissa Goetz, UCLA
Until the Harvest - Jason Flynn, UNC Greensboro
2009 Machinima Finalists
JURY PRIZE
Star Wars: A Galaxy in Darkness - Damien Valentine
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
Flying - Pierce 'Shippiddge' Shipp