American Visions Awards

05/07/2019

Tomorrow night! Visions 2019. 40 years of media that matters! 7pm reception in the MIL, show is at 8pm in the Doyle-Forman theater. Click below to see this year's nominees and some interviews from last year's ceremony. https://www.american.edu/soc/film/visions.cf!

05/09/2018

DON'T FORGET TO BE THERE TOMORROW @7!!

Below are the nominations:

NEW MEDIA:
Nominees:
Fernando Rocha (Com: Understanding Media Final Project PSA)
Madison Long (Reducing Water Use)
Jacob Montes (Oblivion)
Meredith Quinn Bartley (WWHC -Big League Animation)
Trevor Hembling (About Me)
Anil Cole-Jon (Experience The Spirit of Rescue!)
JJ Blake/Eric Ruiz (Sam Dates)
Kris Higgins (Footnotes)
Haley Margaret Sheehan (The Forgotten American Patriot)
Madison Long (Demo)
Kris Higgins (Footnotes)
Trevor Hembling (About Me
Madison Long (Reducing Water Use)

Undergrad Doc Short, Grad Doc Long, Environmental:
Undergrad Doc:
Nominees:
Fernando Rocha (An American University)
Melany Rochester (The Grey Area)
Meredith Bartley (Beyond The Team)

Environmental:
Nominees:
William Reid (Trash Empire)
Robert Boyd (Wildlife Vlog 72)
Students in COMM-568 (Healing Baltimore)

Fiction Short , Grad Doc Short:
Fiction Short:
UNDERGRAD
Nominees:
Emily Hall (Rozalie)
Trevor Hembling ( GTA VI Voice Acting Documentary)

GRAD
Nominees:
Lucidity: (Visions of Truth)
Eric Ruiz (Searching for Jean-Luc)
Eric Ruiz (45 Willow Drive)

Grad Doc Short:
Nominees:
Matt Cipollone (Signs)
Quame Hamlin (Transitions)
Seba Alluqmani (Alkaif)

Grad Thesis:
Nominees:
Angela Pinaglia (The Holy Rewrite)
Shayla Racqual (Riverment)
William Reid (Trash Empire)

SCREENWRITING:
Feature:
Nominees:
Eric Ruiz (Faking It)
Eric Ruiz (45 Willow Drive)
Jolene Carter (Collision)

Short Fiction Graduate:
Nominees:
Quamé Hamlin (Mother’s Love)
Eric Ruiz (Wonder Years)
Sirjaut Kaur Dhariwal (Book of Shadows)

Short Fiction Undergraduate:
Nominees:
Allison Kraus (Lights Up)
Becky Prosky (Rumspringa)
Svetlana Archvadze (In Need of a Friend)
George Gerardi (Dancing with Prejudice)

Short Doc:
Nominees:
Elizabeth Herzfeldt-Kamprath (New Breath of Wilderness)
Meredith Bartley (Keeper: A Story of Hope)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Fine Art/ Doc Series:
Emma Shetter “underwater series”
Emma Shetter “purple series”
Dorothy Hastings “Untitled”
Melissa Kelley “Untitled”
HM. Sherry Gui “Untitled”
HM. Taylor Mikal “firefighter series”

Exp/Installation:
Emma Shetter – photo book “Emma Blaire”
Hannah Solus – photo book “Transitions”
Meghan Nash – photo book “The Lowcountry”

Single Image:
Nicola Etzion “Luke”
Hannah Solus “Peggy’s Room”
Jacob Montes “Creation of Addiction”
Meghan Nash “Sugar Shack”
HM. Ha Le “The Lotus Weaver”
HM. Melany Rochester “Untitled”
HM. Hannah Solus “Carly”

Portfolio:
Delfina Barbierro “Untitled”
Sergio Teran “Untitled”
Perisha Gates “Untitled”

04/18/2018

New Award for Visions 2018!

The Center for Media & Social Impact Jeffrey Tuchman Social Justice Award

In the spirit of championing important stories told through our students’ projects, CMSI has arranged for The International Documentary Association to gift a complimentary pass to the 2018 major industry gathering, Getting Real, in Los Angeles (Sept. 25-27), and a one-year student membership to IDA, to the winner.
https://www.documentary.org/gettingreal18

All video projects submitted to visions this year may be considered for this award, regardless of their standing in other categories.

Join us September 25-7, 2018 in Los Angeles, California! Getting Real is a biennial conference on documentary media This three-day conference will attract over 800 participants and is the only gathering of its kind in North America.

04/10/2018

Some BTS from last weekend. AU students shooting and acting in this year’s Visions intro video. Don’t forget this Friday is the screenwriting deadline!

04/05/2018

Take advantage of this opportunity!!

03/31/2018

We want to remind you that submission deadlines for the 2018 SOC Deadlines are coming up!!

SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

Submissions open: February 5th
Screenwriting deadline: April 13th

General deadline: April 20th

All deadlines are at 5 p.m.

Please don't hesitate to message us with any questions you may have!!

02/22/2018

Posters for 2018 SOC American University Visions Awards are now up!! Keep an eye out for more info on the event as the semester progresses and start thinking about what you want to submit!!

05/10/2017

Get excited for tomorrow night's Visions Awards by watching last year's open with Chris Palmer and Russell Williams!

05/03/2017

Hello Everyone!

Listed below are the nominations for the 2017 American University Visions Awards. Thank you to all of the students who submitted their work this year!

As photography was judged this past weekend, those nominations will be released in the next couple of days, so stay tuned!

Graduate Thesis Nominees:
Lindsey Sitz - “Cowlick”
Xinyi Song - “Hope Rising”
Adili Ailixier - “Euthanasia”

Graduate Documentary Nominees:
Anthony Brunner - “Beauty is Truth”
DongFang Nangong - “The Story of Us - Incense Making”
Matt Cipollone - “Dear Baltimore”

Undergraduate Documentary Nominees:
Daiei Onoguchi - “Sailing to the Dawn”
Danny Welch and Johnny Ostendorf - “Exit Plan”
Elizabeth Wilkins - “The Construct”
Arshum Rouhanian and Chelsey Cartwright - “Anything to Help”

Graduate Fiction Production Nominees:
Ross Godwin- “9 Seconds”
Alexis Pazmiño - “M For Maritza”

Undergraduate Fiction Production Nominees:
Arshum Rouhanian, Ginell Turner, Jack Cullinane, Marc Sheehan - “19 Listopadu”
Abi Weaver - “My Ctyri”
Arshum Rouhanian - “Moonlight Suburbia”

Environmental Production Nominees:
Elizabeth Herzfeldt-Kamprath - “Power in Numbers”
Nick Zachar - “Saba - The Unspoiled Queen”
Sam Sheline- “Keeping the Potomac: The Politics of Water”

Music Video Nominees:
Brad Howard - “I Want You But I Don’t Need You”
Eric Ruiz - “High and Dry”
Sufian Abulohom - “Know Myself”

New Media Nominees:
Abi Weaver - “PSA: Polar Bears”
Sufian Abulohom - “Circle Mirror Transformation”
Lindsay Cobb - “Mudbloods and Refugees”
Abi Weaver - “Ockham’s Razor”
Emma Claire Martin - “Island: Animated Poetry”
Alexis Pazmiño - “False Confession”
Ashfia Khan - “At the Same Time + Youth”
Chelsey Cartwright - “Paris was a Dream”

Screenplay Nominees:
Becky Prosky - “Chevy Chase 20815”
Wei Wang - “The Kong Family”
Michel Isaac Tauber - “Ab Invito”
Will Goodwin - “Snake Eyes”
Becky Prosky - “Tinfoil Town”
Alexis Pazmiño - “M For Maritza”

Congratulations to all of the students who were nominated, and we hope to see everyone on May 10th at the Greenberg Theater!

04/20/2017

One more day to final deadline! Take a look at last year's winners and just imagine your name on this page in glorious black and white Verdana (or Arial depending on your browser)!
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http://www.american.edu/soc/visions/2016-visions-winners.cfm

2016 Visions Winners