Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Winners of the Student Animation Festival

The ASIFA-Hollywood AEF Student Animation Festival, which was held on 11/6/10, was a tremendous success! Students received wonderful feedback from the Portfolio Review, the audience enjoyed viewing the top 25 nominees and we had two great speakers: Andreas Deja and Ron Diamond!
We had over 80 entries and the quality was so fantastic that instead of having five awards, we had six! Yes, there was a tie for the Bronze Award!
Here are the winners of the Festival…

The First Student Annie Award – “BOTTLE” –Kirsten Lepore – California Institute of the arts



Silver Award – “THE LIGHTHOUSE” – Po-Chou Chi – University of California Los Angeles




Bronze Award (tie) – “HEART” – Erick Oh – University of California Los Angeles




Bronze Award (tie) – “THE HENHOUSE” – Elena Pomares – National Film and Television School



Honorable Mention – “NURI” – Kendra Vander Vliet – Ringling College of Art and Design



Honorable Mention – “KUNG FU BUNNY 3” – Zhiyong Li – Communication University of China

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

ANNOUNCING THE NOMINATED FILMS FOR THE ASIFA-HOLLYWOOD AEF STUDENT ANIMATION FESTIVAL

Title Student School
Follow the Rabbit Poon, Jessica CalArts
Thembi's Diary Kim, Jisoo CalArts
Bottle Lepore, Kirsten CalArts
Topi Rihan, Arjun USC
A Tall Tale Biggs, Brittany USC
Heart Oh, Erik UCLA
Kidnap Luo, Sijia UCLA
The Lighthouse Chi, Po-Chou UCLA
Stix Ruiz Reyes, Felipe UT (Dallas)
No Robots Knoll, Kimberly SJSU
Flip Hackett, Jill RINGLING
Dilla Forty Fingers RINGLING
No Soliciting Sayre, Bohdon RINGLING
Departure of Love Bors, Jennifer RINGLING
Good Bot, Bad Bot Ng, Marcus RINGLING
Nuri Vander Vliet, Kendra RINGLING
The Henhouse Pomares, Elena NFTS
Today Only Jackman, Toby NFTS
Snowflakes and Carrots Leriche-Gionet, Samantha Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
El Diablo Ellsworth, Matt Academy of Art University, Corte Medera
Bridge Tey, Ting Chian Academy of Art University, Corte Medera
Sharfik Gazizova, Karina LCAD
Night Light Carlson, Curtis LCAD
Distance Gu, Di UNIVERSITY OF CHINA
Kung Fu Bunny 3 Li, Zhiyong UNIVERSITY OF CHINA
Eclipse Koren, Liat Rhode Island School of Design