• At the 64th Annual Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild Golden Reel Awards, our students have a whopping FIVE of the 8 nominees this year for the Verna Fields Student Award including (http://variety.com/2017/artisans/in-contention/mpse-sound-editing-nominees-2017-full-list-1201971642/)
    • Taylor Scherer for Brodin Plett’s EDEN
    • Gerry Vazquez for Tom Teller’s ICARUS
    • Xiang Li for Brian Robau’s IT’S JUST A GUN
    • Peiqi Duan and Tianfu Zhang for Jingyu Lu’s SHALLOW GRAVE
    • Xiaodan Li & Wenrui Fan for Loring Weisenberger’s JERRY
  • Tom Teller’s HUM continues its dominance in high profile contests, despite already being live online including winning the Innovation Award, carrying a $1000 prize, at the 2nd Annual FedEx Film Innovation Challenge in Memphis: http://www.memphis.edu/fedex/newsroom/press_release/2017%20Film%20Innovation%20Challenge%20Winner.pdf
  • Ceylan Carhoglu and Nicole Jordan-Webber’s GARDENERS OF THE FOREST and Tom Teller’s ICARUS will be playing the 20th Annual George Lindsay UNA Film Festival in Alabama (http://www.lindseyfilmfest.com/)
  • Amanda Larsh, Hannah Bradford, Nicholas McDonald, and Caroline Roffe’s DANCING IN LIMBO will premiere at the 32nd Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival on February 10th and 11th (http://www.sbiff.org/download/2017schedulegrid.pdf)
  • Derek O’Dell’s AEON, Tom Teller’s HUM, Riley Geis’ THE WITCHING HOUR, and Ceylan Carhoglu and Nicole Jordan-Webber’s GARDENERS OF THE FOREST will play the 11th Annual Real Teal Film Festival in North Carolina
  • Keegan Mullin’s THE LAST WORDS will be playing New Filmmakers LA this month (https://www.newfilmmakersla.com/events/event/monthly-film-fest-february-18th-2017/)
  • Samantha Armiger’s GROOMED,  Ceylan Carhoglu and Nicole Jordan-Webber’s GARDENERS OF THE FOREST, Kendal Goldberg’s SWIPE RIGHT, and Nicole Acevedo, Steve Wetrich, and Zach Shucklin’s THE THUNDERBIRD OVER THE WHALE will be playing the 12th Annual Durango Independent Film Festival (http://www.durangofilm.org/)
  • Brenna Malloy’s ROCKET won the HollyShorts Monthly Series Audience Award this month
  • Rachel Bass’ BLACK MAGIC got into the 14th Annual Hollywood Black Film Festival
  • Tom Teller’s ICARUS, Brenna Malloy’s ROCKET, and Ceylan Carhoglu and Nicole Jordan-Webber’s GARDENERS OF THE FOREST got into the 16th Annual Ozark Foothills FilmFest
  • Tom Teller’s ICARUS is nominated at the Watersprite Awards for Cinematography, Editing, Music, Production Design, Sound Editing and Sergio Zaciu’s WHINING LOW is nominated for Best Screenplay (http://www.watersprite.org.uk/awards/)