Our students make films in our classes that are juried into festivals and win awards around the world. We provide departmental grant awards to help students produce their film and seek distribution at international festivals and competitions. Below is an ongoing list of some of our student successes (the ones we know about, anyway!)
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Those Who Don't (2024) by Yasmine Tohme '24 & Ryan Rivera '25
IndieFEST Film Awards, La Jolla, CA Winner - Best Latin/Hispanic Theme (Student) Indie House, Barcelona, Spain Winner - Best Student film The Telly Awards - New York City Winner- Bronze Prize (Student) and Silver Prize (Specialty-Best Student) U.S.-Mexico Kaleidoscope Finalist- Binational Kaleidoscope Award 12th ARFF Barcelona // International Film Festival - Barcelona, Spain Quarter Finalist - Best Student Film Lost River Film Fest, San Marcos, TX First-Time Filmmaker Sessions by Lift-Off Global Network, Pinewood Studios, UK KIDS FIRST! Film Festival, Santa Fe, NM Coliseum International Film Festival, Rome, Italy American Golden Picture International Film Festival, Jacksonville, FL International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY Series Web Awards- Lima, Peru Florence Film Awards, Florence, Italy LA Film & Documentary Award, Los Angeles, CA The Chico Independent Film Festival 2024, Chico, CA Latino & Native American Film Festival, New Haven, CT Flint Youth Film Festival, Flint, MI Tom is Dead (2024) by Ian Hopkins '25 & Sophie Gould '25 Festival Angaelica, Los Angeles, CA Coliseum International Film Festival, Rome, Italy Lift Off Filmmaker Sessions, Pinewood Studios, UK Could've (2023) by Timothy Friend '24 & Sophie Gould '25 British University International Students Film Festival, Cairo, Egypt Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Student Video Contest, New York, NY Duemila30, Milan, Italy Honorable Mention American Golden Picture International Film Festival, Jacksonville, FL Honorable Mention Best Student Film Gothamite Monthly Film Awards, New York, NY Winner - Best Student Documentary of the Month Lift Off First Time Filmmaker Festival, Pinewood Studios, UK Cayuga Film Festival, Cayuga, NY Winner - Best College Short Documentary FESTCESAG: Festival International Universitario De Documental Social - Illes Balears, Spain Chico Independent Film Festival, Chico, CA Miami 4 Social Change Youth Film Festival, FL Honorable Mention Dum Vita Est Spes Est (2023) by Ian Hopkins '25 & Ainsley Ellison '26 Kuala Lumpur International Film Academy Awards, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The Oscar Michaeux Black Film Festival, Chattanooga, TN Breaking Boundaries (2023) by Stephanie Cornejo '24 and Ryan Rivera '25 Lift-Off First-Time Filmmaker Volume 7, Pinewood Studios, UK Fever Dream (2022) by Timothy Friend '24 & Leila Hernandez-Webster '24 Pinewood Studios First Time Filmmaker Session. Iver, UK Coliseum International Film Festival, Rome, Italy Banana Boy (2022) by Jimmy Cork '22 & Tyler Silbey '22 Texas Short Film Festival. San Antonio, TX Nominated- Best Comedy Film Georgia Comedy Film Festival. Atlanta, GA Winner- Best Comedy Film, Nominated- Best Actor Seattle Film Festival. Seattle, WA How to Tie a Tie (2021) by Jimmy Cork '22 Yule Film Festival. Hartford, CT. Winner - Best Student Short Shorts and to the Point Regional Indie Afternoon. Brookfield, CT Trinity Film Festival. Hartford, CT Vegas Shorts Film Festival. Las Vegas, NV Miami Indie Film Awards. Miami, FL Mystic Film Festival. Mystic, CT Winner - Best Student Screenplay Bridgeport Film Festival. Bridgeport, CT Treasure Coast International Film Festival. Port St. Lucie, FL First Place- International Student Film Competition Charlotte Film Festival. Charlotte, NC Norwalk Film Festival. Norwalk, CT Turning Leaves (2021) by Bri Goolsby '22 & James Nalle '23 Black Feedback Film Festival. Los Angeles, CA Today's Paper, Yesterday's News (2021) by Jenna Kramer '22 Mystic Film Festival, Mystic CT Hidden (2019) by Alex Bernardo ’20 & Mikayla Waterhouse ‘20 Mystic Film Festival. Mystic, CT Winner - Audience Choice Award Miami Independent Film Festival. Miami, FL Peel (2018) by Luca Guo ‘19 Moviate Film Festival. Harrisburg, PA The Meteor (2017) by Carson Bloomquist ’18 and Charlie Losiewicz ‘19 Midwest Horror Fest, Horror, Sci-Fi, & Grind House Films, Logansport, IN. Eurasia International Monthly Film Festival, Warsaw, POL. Winner- Best Student Film European Cinematography Awards, Moscow, RUS. Nominee- Best Student film Twin Tiers Film Festival, Norwich, NY. Trinity Film Festival. Hartford, CT. Winner – Best Editing End of Days Film Festival. Orlando, FL Alternative Film Festival. Toronto, CAN. Winner – Best Horror Red Corner Film Festival. Cochecton, NY Austin Spotlight Film Festival. Austin, TX Mystic Film Festival, Mystic, CT. Southeast Michigan Film Festival, Dearborn, MI. Life in Ab Minor (2017) by Jillian Noyes ’19 and Andie Pratt ‘17 Bluenose Ability Film Festival. Nova Scotia, CAN. Azalea Film Festival. Mobile, AL. The Babysitter (2017) by Hayley Smith '18 and Carson Bloomquist '18 Indie Horror Film Festival. DeKalb, IL. Fake Flesh Film Fest, Kamloops, British Columbia. Fishers Re-up (2017) by Jonathan Goodnow ’18 and Daryl Brown ‘18 LA cinefest. Los Angeles, CA. Semifinalist 401 Film Fest, West Warwick, RI. Beatrice Brought Dessert (2016) by Lauren Young '16, Emma Radest '16 Gold Reel Student Film Festival. Charlotte, NC The Monthly Film Festival. Glasgow, UK Los Angeles Cinefest Film Festival. Los Angeles, CA – Finalist Short of the Month. Winner - Best Female Character, Nominated – Best Directors IndieWise Free Virtual Festival YoungFilmmakers. New York, NY Hollywood Screenings Film Festival. Hollywood, CA. Quarterfinalist North Bay Art & Film Festival. San Francisco, CA Top Indie Film Awards. Winner - Best Directors. Nominated - Best Humor Chandler International Film Festival. Chandler, AZ. Winner - Best Women Filmmakers Amarcord Arthouse Television and Video Awards. Chicago, IL New York Film and TV Festival. New York City, NY. Winner – Top Five Short Screenplays Bloodstained Indie Film Festival. Long Beach, CA Bucharest ShortCut CineFest. Bucharest, Romania September Moon (2015) by Kyle Manzione '15, Amanda Kloth '15 International Vampires et Film Arts Festival. Transylvania, Romania. Number 32 (2014) by Linnea Langkammer '14 Raw Science Film Festival. Los Angeles, CA. Winner - Best Student Documentary Watersprite Film Festival. Cambridge, UK Chicago Shorts Film Festival. Chicago, IL. Winner - Best Documentary Docuwest Film Festival. Denver, CO Shnit International Shortfilmfestival. Bern, Switzerland Imagine Science International Film Festival. New York, NY Nevada International Film Festival. Las Vegas, NV Verbal Inhumanity (2014) by Ben Zonon '15 Trinity Film Festival. Hartford, CT. Winner - 2nd Place The Groundsmen (2016) by Trey Chapman '16 FilmShortage.com NewFilmmakers. New York, NY |
Love Is Merely a Madness (2024) by Ian Hopkins '25 & Timothy Friend '25
Hollywood Storytellers Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA Winner - Best DEI, Best LGBTQ Representation, Best Student Short Documentary Out & Loud – Pune International Queer Film Festival, Maharashtra, India APOX Pilm Pestival, Primorsko-Goranska, Croatia Aster Film Festival, New York, NY Muskoka Queer Film Festival, Ontario, CAN LMCFilms Student Film Festival 2025, GA Qfest LGBTQ Film Festival, Asbury, NJ Covellite International Film Festival, MT World Premiere Film Awards, CA Fence Sitter Film Festival, Bernardsville, NJ Pieces of Time (2024) Claire Protano '25 & Ryan Rivera '25 International Gold Awards, NY Winner - Best Short Documentary IndieFEST Film Awards, La Jolla, CA Winner - Best Documentary (Student) American Golden Picture International Film Festival, Jacksonville, FLHonorable Mention Best Student Film Mokkho International Film Festival, Pondicherry, India Aster Film Festival, New York New York Movie Awards, New York Flint Youth Film Festival, Flint, MI Lift Off Filmmaker Session, Pinewood Studios, UK Deficit (2023) by Ian Hopkins '25 & Zuhah Syed '24 S.E Manly African American Film Festival, California, United States Shattered (2024) by Timothy Friend & Leila Hernandez-Webster Lift Off Filmmaker Sessions, Pinewood Studios, UK International Short Cinema Festival, Murillo, Bolivia Winner- Best Short Film & Best Screenplay Kuala Lumpur International Film Academy Awards, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Gothamite Monthly Film Awards, New York Muddy Waters: Road to Recovery (2023) by Ryan Rivera '25 & Bela Paião '25 Flint Youth Film Festival, Flint, MI Winner - Best 19-21 Non-Fiction and Craft Directing Centrally Isolated Film Festival, Ithaca, NY Filmmaker Sessions By Lift Off Global Network, Pinewood Studios, UK Effigy (2023) by Timothy Friend '24 & Ian Hopkins '25 Coliseum International Film Festival, Rome, Italy Lift Off First Time Filmmaker Festival, Pinewood Studios, UK Echo BRICS Film Festival, Moscow, Russian Federation Clarence Cuts Loose (2021) by Jimmy Cork '22 & Tyler Silbey '22 Reno Comedy Film Festival. Reno, NV Texas Short Film Festival. San Antonio, TX Winner - Best Director Oregon Short Film Festival. Portland, OR Nominated - Best Comedy Film Portland Comedy Film Festival. Portland, OR Nominated - Best Comedy Film Austin Comedy Film Festival. Austin, TX Nominated- Most Original Idea NJ International Short Film Festival. Colonia, NJ Winner - Best Supporting Actor Newark Short Film Awards. Newark, NJ Houston Comedy Film Festival. Houston, TX Nominated - Best Actor Treasure Coast International Film Festival. Port St. Lucie, FL Shackles (2021) by Thomas Awender '22 & Joshua Estrada '23 New York Movie Awards, New York, NY Honorable Mention Horror Realm, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Hollywood Gold Awards. Los Angeles, CA Oregon Screams Horror Film Festival. Portland, OR The Thing in The Basement Horror Festival. Bremerton, WA West Coast Movie Awards. Online festival FELACOS Film Festival. Santiago, Chile Xicanindie Film Festival. Denver, CO Upstate New York Film Festival. Williamsville, NY Smoke of the Sea (2019) by Sam Simonds ‘19 Amis Music Festival. Dulan, Taiwan Connecticut College, New London, CT Oakes and Louise Ames Prize for Outstanding Honors Study Second Helping (2019) by Anna Guttmacher ’19 & Morgan Grant ‘20 Mystic Film Festival. Mystic, CT China White (2019) by Zack Bermack ’20 & Jack Pacilio ‘20 Mystic Film Festival. Mystic, CT First Time Filmmaker Sessions. Pinewood Studios, UK New York Cinematography Awards. New York, NY. Semi-Finalist Alternative Film Festival. Toronto, CAN. Semi-Finalist - Best Suspense/Mystery/Thriller Eurasia International Monthly Film Festival. Moscow, RUS Semi-Finalist Alternative Film Festival. Toronoto, CAN Semi-Finalist Los Angeles Cinefest. Los Angeles, CA Semi-Finalist From a Valley of Talol (2017) by Sam Simonds ‘19 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. Reading Film Festival. Reading, PA. Winner - Best Student Documentary Queen City Film Festival. Cumberland, MD Winner - Best Documentary Flathead Lake International Cinemafest, Nominee - Best Picture under 22 META (2017) by Connor Gowland '17 and Charlie Losiewicz '19 Alternative Film Festival, Toronto - Finalist best sci-fi/futuristic short Underground Film Fest Sci Fi Underground Film fest, München, GER. 2018 The Vulture (2017) by Christian Vazquez '19 and Jillian Noyes '19 Austin Action Fest. Austin, TX. In Ten Years (2017) by Jonathan Goodnow '18 and Sam Simonds '19 Reel to Real Global Youth Film Festival. Los Angelas, CA. Winner - Best Action Los Angeles Cinefest. Los Angeles, CA. Semifinalist Our Voices Film Festival. Vancouver, CAN. Hollywood Screening Film Festival. Santa Monica, CA. prism (2016) by Jillian Noyes '19 Eye Myth Film Festival. Toronto, CAN. Inside Voice (2016) by Jillian Noyes '19 Ocean City Film Festival. Ocean City, MD. Mosaic World Film Festival. Rockford, IL. FAM Fest International Film Festival. Rock Hill, SC. WINNER - Best Experimental Synthesis (2016) Hallie Cohen '17, Cooper Nefsky '17 City of Tustin Film Festival. Tustin, CA Los Angeles CineFest. Los Angeles, CA Direct Online Monthly Film Festival Direct Short Online Film Festival Sister (2014) by Amanda Pratt '17 Trinity Film Festival. Hartford, CT. Winner – 3rd Place Places (2015) by Emma Radest '16, Josefin Karjel '17 Los Angeles Cinefest Film Festival. Los Angeles, CA Eleven Years (2015) by Paul Luba '16, Maddy Harris '16 Trinity Film Festival. Hartford, CT New Haven Documentary Film Festival. New Haven, CT Golden Film Awards - US Hollywood International FF. Hollywood, CA. Finalist With Time (2015) by Ellen Heuer '17, Katherine Lipman '16 Trinity Film Festival. Hartford, CT Adam (2015) by Trey Chapman '16, George Scarles '15 Student Filmmaker Awards. International Online Festival Re-written Ending (2015) by Lauren Young '16, Hallie Cohen '17 The Monthly Film Festival. Glasgow, UK The Online Film Festival. International Online Festival YoungFilmmakers New York Film Festival. New York, NY |