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Award-Winning Student Films
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Azusa Pacific University’s student films screen at festivals at home and abroad and are often celebrated as top award winners.
Our student films have impressed at major events like the Festival of Media Arts, hosted each year by the Broadcast Education Association, a consortium that includes more than 1,600 professors who represent more than 275 colleges and universities. Films by APU students have placed in the top tier every year since 2005, and won Best of Festival twice.
Other festivals that APU films have won at include: Damah Film Festival, Rogue Independent Film Festival, Reel Spirituality/LAFSC Film Festival, Paste Magazine’s Rockin’ Reel Film Festival, and the International Christian Visual Media Crown Awards.
Student film awards from the Broadcast Education Association’s Festival of Media Arts include:
Red Lotus
Gabriel Gonzales, Sarah Schroeder, Oliver Eldridge,
Small School Best of Festival, 2017
Luiseño
Tanner Morrison, Ryan Bowman, Allie Lapp, Yasha Sojwa
Award of Excellence Script Research, 2016
Discovery: The Road to Hell
Tyler Kent Hill
Small School 1st Place Audio, 2015
Wild Blume
Tanner Morrison, Corban Aspegren, Tom Scott
Small School 1st Place, 2014
Where Are They Now
Zack Evans, Kaleb Tuttle, Zach Cieszynski & Brian Hartley
Narrative 1st Place, 2014
Mama’s Boy
Kaleb Tuttle, Zack Evans, and Brian Hartley,
Narrative 1st Place, 2013
Cats
Peter Hall, Phillip Hall, Whitnee Sherman,
Small School 1st Place, 2013
Jay
E.R. Womelsduff, Emily Michel Ford,
Best of Festival, 2012
All My Tomorrows by Stop Motion Poetry
Jesse Doland, Cale Lincoln Erickson, Jena Brancart
Music Video 1st Place, 2011
Parental Unit
Jeremy Olson, Erin Channing, Scott Crozier, Jacob Turner
Narrative Video 1st Place, 2011
Student film awards from the International Christian Visual Media: Crown Awards include:
A Voice Inside
Samuel Vargas,
Gold, 2013
All My Tomorrows by Stop Motion Poetry
Jesse Doland,
Gold, 2011
Life After
Jeremiah Lujan,
Gold, 2008
Faith on a Sleeve
Jeremy Rice, Matt Sperazza,
Bronze, 2007