The Directors Guild of America is pleased to announce its 5th Annual Student Film Awards, which will take place at the DGA in Los Angeles on Tuesday, November 9, 1999.
The DGA established the Student Film Awards for African-American, Asian/Pacific, Latino and Women Filmmakers to offer recognition, encouragement and scholarship to outstanding minority and women students in California and other selected film schools. Our goal is to help exceptional, young minority and women filmmakers at a crucial time in their careers, and establish a constructive relationship between them and the Directors Guild.
Once again, the DGA is inviting African-American, Asian/Pacific, Latino and women students to participate in the competition by submitting their films shot within the last school year (September 1998 to August 1999) in the drama, documentary or experimental categories.
Students attending or recently graduated (one year) from the following California schools and selected national universities are eligible to participate in this year's competition:
American Film Institute
Art Center College of Design
Biola University
California State Univ. - Fresno
California Institute of the Arts
California State Univ. - San Bernardino
California State Univ. - Northridge
California State Univ. - Los Angeles
California State Univ. - Fullerton
California State Univ. - Long Beach
Clark Atlanta University
College of Santa Fe
Columbia College - Hollywood
Emerson College
Harvard University
Howard University
Humbolt State University
Los Angeles City College
Loyola Marymount University
Northwestern University
Pepperdine University
Pomona College
San Diego State University
San Jose State University
San Francisco State University
San Francisco Art Institute
Santa Clara University
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Southern California College
Stanford University
Syracuse University
The American University
Univ. of California, San Diego
Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
Univ. of California - Irvine
Univ. of Southern California
University of Michigan
University of Texas at Austin
University of New Orleans
Wesleyan University
Yale University
Panels consisting of DGA director members from the respective groups (African-American, Asian/Pacific, Latino and Women) will review the entries, and the Guild will announce the winners at an Awards ceremony on November 9.
Submission deadline for all entries is 6:00 PM on Monday, October 11, 1999.
The winner in each group will receive a $2500 prize from the Directors Guild of America, as well as a product grant of 2000 feet of 16mm film provided by Kodak's Worldwide Student Film Program.
For more information and to obtain an application, contact your school's film dept., or DGA Special Projects (310.289.2034), or download an application from the DGA website.
