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

Map to the Student Animation Festival at CSULB

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