Film Awards

2019 Tribeca Film Festival - Student Visionary Award WinnerPearlLinhan ZhangIn a desolate Chinese fishing village, a single mother gives her 6-year-old daughter one final lesson.Amazon

2018 Tribeca Film Festival - Student Visionary Award WinnerThe Life of EstebanInès EshunEsteban, a future Olympic swimmer, has grown up with a single mother and doesn't know who his father is. As he searches for his identity in this poetic short film, he determines swimming is a metaphor for life itself.Amazon

2017 Tribeca Film Festival - Student Visionary Award WinnerFry DayLaura MossA coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of Ted Bundy's execution in 1989.AmazonFry DayLaura MossA coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of Ted Bundy's execution in 1989.AmazonSaltaJulia goes back to the pool and remembers that, sometimes, life challenges ourselves to keep going and make decisions.Amazon2017 Tribeca Film Festival - Student Visionary Award NomineesIron HandsJohnson ChengAmazon

2016 Tribeca Film Festival - Student Visionary Award WinnerPing Pong CoachYi LiuFifteen-year-old Tsi-An has fallen in love with her ping pong coach, who happens to be her best friend's father. She asks for private lessons with the hope of getting close to him.Amazon2016 Tribeca Film Festival - Student Visionary Award NomineesCherokeeJem RankinAmazonGame NightJoel FendelmanAmazonJaharHenry HayesAmazonOne Good PitchParker HillAmazonOperatorBen HakimAmazonSemeleMyrsini AristidouAmazonThe Duke: Based on the Memoir 'I'm The Duke' by J.P. DukeMax BarbakowAmazon

2015 Tribeca Film Festival - Student Visionary Award WinnerCatwalkNinja ThybergNine-year old Ella realizes the importance of fashion, and starts revolting against her childhood.AmazonKingdom of GarbageYasir KareemZahraa dreams of going to school. Instead she and her brother, Hassan, must scour a landfill site for valuable materials to provide for their poor family, competing against the other ...Amazon2015 Tribeca Film Festival - Student Visionary Award NomineesA Mighty Nice ManJonathan DeeAmazonBanditoEvan Ari KelmanAmazonBlitzFaraday OkoroAmazonKingdom of GarbageYasir KareemAmazonLast BaseAslak DanboltAmazonLet's Not PanicHeather JackAmazonRita Mahtoubian Is Not A TerroristRoja GashtiliAmazonStopReinaldo Marcus GreenAmazonThe ArrestYair AgmonAmazonWrappedRoman KälinAmazon

2014 Tribeca Film Festival - Student Visionary Award WinnerCycloidTomoki KurogiCYCLOID is an animation work representing a impermanence. I expressed the beauty of the changing times to draw a landscape animation by hand. I want to describe that accepting and enjoying the change would cause a full life.AmazonNasma's PigeonsNajwan AliAwkward 11-year-old Nasma's father has been killed. His pigeons are all she has left of him. At odds with her mother and the boy next door Nasma will unexpectedly come face-to-face with womanhood.Amazon2014 Tribeca Film Festival - Student Visionary Award NomineesAcetate DiaryRussell SheafferAmazonAppAlexander BermanAmazonCycloidTomoki KurogiAmazonFirstbornLeah TonicAmazonNocturnityAlexandra LiverisAmazonSweepstakesMark TumasAmazonThe Boy ScoutPatrick BrooksAmazo...

2013 Tribeca Film Festival - Student Visionary Award WinnerLife Doesn't Frighten MeStephen DunnInsecure thirteen year-old Esther Weary is on the brink of puberty and must come to terms with the realities of becoming a woman with her well-meaning grandpa and his pet pug.AmazonReporting on The Times: The New York Times and The HolocaustEmily L. HarroldInspired by Laurel Leff's award winning book Buried by The Times, this film explores how The New York Times handled reports of The Holocaust during World War II. It also explores why The ...Amazon2013 Tribeca Film Festival - Student Visionary Award NomineesDelicacyJason MannAmazonGrave GoodsLeslie TaiAmazonReporting on The Times: The New York Times and The HolocaustEmily L. HarroldAmazonWhen the Song DiesJamie ChambersAmazon