Past Festivals

Past Winners

2005	1st Prize $10,000 from Tisch School of the Arts, $4000 Product Grant from KODAK, Leather Luggage from Roots Rain Is Falling Holger Ernst, Hochschule fur Fernsehen und Film, Konrad Wolf 2nd Prize $7,000 from Tisch School of the Arts, $4000 Product Grant from KODAK and Leather Luggage from ROOTS Tomorrow Leiv Igor Devold, Polish National Film School 3rd Prize $5,000 from Tisch School of the Arts, $4000 Product Grant from KODAK and Leather Luggage from ROOTS Grinding Machine Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni, Film and TV Institute, India
2003	1st Prize A $6,000 cash prize and an opportunity to screen at the Kodak American Pavilion at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival Cristian Nemescu, C-Block Story Romania's National University of Drama and Film 2nd Prize A $3,000 cash prize and an opportunity to screen at the Kodak American Pavilion at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival JP Valkeapää, The Fall Finland's University of Art and Design 3rd Prize A $2,000 cash prize and an opportunity to screen at the Kodak American Pavilion at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival Yon Motskin, The Cutman NYU's Tisch School of the Arts
2001	1st Prize Slawomir Fabicki, A Man Thing Polish National Film School Lodz, Poland 2nd Prize Jyri Kahonen, Mother University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland 3rd Prize David Kartch, Zen and the Art of Landscaping Columbia University, New York, New York
1999	1st Prize Boele Weemhoff, Blanche & Marie Netherlands Film and Television 2nd Prize Michael Burke, Fishbelly White New York University 3rd Prize Michal Zabka, Babalon FAMU Prague
1997	1st Prize Sandra Lepore, Acquiring a Taste for Rafaella Australian Film, Television & Radio School (AFTRS), Australia 2nd Prize Second Watch 3rd Prize Around the Time.