The DGA's 21st annual Student Film Awards has selected 16 winners from its diverse pool of talented filmmakers — with eastern and western region finalists representing Columbia, Nyu, UCLA, USC, Chapman and Florida State University. The 2015 winners, selected by blue ribbon DGA member panels, are: Best African American Student Filmmakers: West Region Award Winner: Meja Shoba of UCLA for "Dear Pearl" Jury Award: Dehanza Rogers of UCLA for "The Youth" East Region Award Winner: Kiel Adrian Scott of Nyu for "Samaria" Jury Award: Alcee H. Walker of School of Visual Arts for "Inferno" Best Asian American Student Filmmakers: West Region Award Winner: Xi Guan of USC for "Mandala" Jury Award: Thy Riedel of Chapman University for "Long Lost" East Region Award Winner: Saad Nawab of Florida State University for "Frankenstein’s Light" Jury Award: Yingxiang Huang of Florida State University for "Isa and the Frog...
- 11/10/2015
- by Ruben Guevara
- Thompson on Hollywood
Short films dominated the 2015 Blackstar Film Festival. Over 60 short films (expertly programmed into blocks devoted to music, Black boys and men, coming-of-age, experimental, social justice, love stories, fatherhood, satire and films from the diaspora), were screened this year, uniformly of good quality and reflecting facets of the black experience that seldom get expressed in mainstream cinema. Among the best that I saw (I caught 20 films) were "Black Card" by Pete Chatmon; "The Bravest, The Boldest" by Moon Molson; "The Youth" by Dehanza Rogers; "Dream" by Nilja Mu’min and "Swimming In Your Skin Again" by Terence Nance. In...
- 8/3/2015
- by Michael Dennis
- ShadowAndAct
On Sunday, I had the opportunity to see filmmaker Shaka King’s debut film, “Newlyweeds,” at the Sundance Next Weekend festival. The Next festival is a mini Sundance film festival in Los Angeles. There were screenings all over the city, informative workshops, and parties. You can learn more about the festival by clicking on this link: http://www.sundance.org/nextSeveral things stood out to me as I spoke to Shaka about his film. I love his organic approach to screenwriting. As he described his process, I automatically thought of sculpting. Secondly, I really love the fact that Gbenga Akinnagbe assisted with this project. If you remember, I interviewed filmmaker Dehanza Rogers...
- 8/13/2013
- by Masha Dowell
- ShadowAndAct
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