Film Festival Kudos

Every so often, we like to roundup the festival achievements of our students and recent graduates. Dodge students have been overflowing with great news from film festivals and competitions as of late which we couldn’t be happier about:

• Hadley Hillel’s Ernie, has been nominated at the Watersprite Awards in Cambridge UK for Best Fiction Film, Best Editing, Best Directing, Best Production Design, and Best Sound Editing. Hadley’s other film Baby I’m Yours, has won 2nd place for Best Short Film – College Student at the 3rd Annual AT&T Film Awards, beating over 600 other entries to win a $3000 prize.
• Two student documentaries including Amanda Larsh, Caroline Roffe, Nicholas McDonald, and Hannah Bradford’s Dancing in Limbo and Hannah Mattner and Kat Satter’s Hidden Life, have been officially selected for the Oscar-Qualifying 15th Annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, MT.
• Daniel Drummond has been accepted at the world-renowned talent development program Berlinale Talents, which runs during the Oscar-Qualifying Berlin International Film Festival in February, for his in development short film, Rust, in the Short Film Station category. His Student Academy Award-finalist and First Cut selected film, A Foreman, will be making its North American debut, in a first-ever for Dodge College, at the Oscar-Qualifying 33nd Annual Guadalajara International Film Festival in Mexico competing in the Iberoamerican Short Film category.
• Elliott Powell, Jordyn Romero, Paloma Young, Rachel Lattin, and Riani Singgih’s, Tigerstyle, from the recently completed Project S class, made its World Premiere at the 33rd Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
• Amanda Renee Knox’s, Night Call, made its Los Angeles Premiere at the Oscar-Qualifying 26th Annual Pan-African Film Festival, and has also been officially selected at the 28th Annual Cinequest Film & VR Festival in San Jose, the 13th Annual Durango Independent Film Festival in Colorado, and the Oscar-Qualifying 21st Annual Bermuda International Film Festival from March 17th-25th.
• Dodge sound students have been honored once again with two of the five nominations for the Student Recognition Award at the 54th Annual Cinema Audio Society Awards, including Xiang Li and Anna Wozniewicz. The winners will be announced in late February at a ceremony in Los Angeles.

• Lin Wang’s, Death in a Day, won the Golden Award for Best Narrative Short at the Hua International Short Film Festival in China, taking home a whopping $5000 grand prize which she says will go towards pre-production on her first feature film.
• Eight films including Christy Westad and Elijah Guess’ Parched, Julie Greiner’s Human Town, U.S.A, Brian Robau’s It’s Just a Gun, Amanda Renee Knox’s Night Call, Lane Lyle’s Distress, Grant Moore’s Pickle, Robby Bracker’s CItizen, and Paul Mowry’s Marty & Stacy’s Pixelated Dream Show, will all play the 13th Annual Beaufort International Film Festival in South Carolina, with Grant, Lane, and Paul’s films all nominated for Best Comedy.
• Graduate Directing student Ragini Bhasin has been selected for 8th Annual Aotearoa Short Film Lab in New Zealand in March put on by the Oscar-Qualifying Show Me Shorts Film Festival where she will be developing her short film concept and script with the guidance and advice of experienced industry mentors. She is one of only two international directors selected for the opportunity.
• Rachel Beltran & Nicole Myers’ Good Boy, Ashton Avila’s Have a Little Faith, and Trying to F**K: A Modern Day Romance, Alexa Tuttle’s Intrepid, and Kendall Goldberg, Rocky Pajarito, Caroline Roffe, and Greyson Horst’s Dempsey the Diabetic Superhero will all play the 5th Annual North Hollywood CineFest from March 23rd-29th.
• Sol Ye has been selected as one of five participants for the BFI – China to UK Film Industry Placement Programme where she will travel to the UK for a five-day workshop on professional skills and knowledge exchange with a 4-day work placement in a leading British film company.
• Andres Gil’s Look at Me, Amanda Renee Knox’s Night Call, and Kendall Goldberg’s Gloria Talks Funny, have all been accepted to the 18th Annual Phoenix Film Festival from April 5th-15th.
• Anja Paul’s Last Night in Town, has been officially selected for the 24th Annual Sedona International Film Festival from February 24th-March 4th.
• Grant Moore’s Pickle, has won the Best Student Film Award this month at the 14th Annual Dam Short Film Festival in Boulder City, NV.
  

  Moore with fellow filmmakers Shamola Kharkar and Ashton Avila.