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News Doc students win awards
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Date:October 14, 2011
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NewsDoc Student up for Margaret Mead Film Fest Award2010 alumni Yuanchen “Ethan” Liu’s graduation film, To The Light, will be screened at the 35th Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History, Saturday, November 12th at 4pm. Liu is one of seven nominees for the Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award, an award recognizing films that push the boundaries of visual anthropology. In the spirit of the anthropologist for which the award is named, the nominees take audiences deeply into contemporary societal challenges around the world.
NewsDoc will honor Liu’s accomplishment our Alumni Reunion on November 9.
News and Doc alumni France Costrel wins documentary awardFrance Costrel was awarded 2011 YoungCuts Film Festival Oasis HD Award for Best Documentary for her grad film, Finding Fathers. It is about how the people of Normandy, France, honor the children of the American servicemen who died on D Day.
Every year, the YoungCuts Film Festival staff review the work of more than 5, 000 filmmakers and watch more than 1, 000 films to pick our Top 100. From our Top 100, we pick our list of Top 10 films to honour with an award. Finding Fathers is also being featured at the Chagrin Falls Film Festival in Ohio.