• At the 64^th 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 2^nd 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 20^th 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 32^nd Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival on February 10^th and 11^th (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 11^th 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 12^th 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 14^th 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 16^th 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/)