75th UFVA Conference
Empowering Spaces
July 27 – 30, 2021
2021 UFVA Conference Awards
SCREENINGS/FILMS
Narrative shorts: Strawberry Shakes
Directed by Dianne Bellino
Narrative Feature: Light from Light
Directed by Paul Harrill
Experimental Short: Parts Per Million
Directed by Jesseca Ynez Simmons
Doc Short: Aguilas/Eagles
Directed by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Maite Zubiaurre
Doc Feature: Missing in Brooks County
Directed by Lisa Molomot, Jeff Bemiss
Multicamera/LiveStream: The Death of Cliff Huxtable
Directed by Terésa Dowell-Vest
Animation: Ten Degrees of Strange
Directed by Lynn Tomlinson
SCRIPTS
SHORTS Honorable Mention: Fred Jones, “The Glove Salesman”
SHORTS Award of Merit: Quame A. Hamlin, “Recovery Chain”
TV PILOTS Honorable Mention: Martin Lang, “Technocracy”
TV PILOTS Award of Merit: Jonathan Mabee, Sector: 2814
FEATURE Honorable Mention: Geert Heetebrij, The Undergrounds
FEATURE Award of Merit: Kyle W Bergersen, Indians vs. Army
NEW MEDIA
Best of the Conference: Ascendance – Louise Harvey and Peter Moyse
Runner-Up: Monument For V. Tatlin 1 – Byeongwon Ha
Honorable Mention: Lost Context – Jennifer Zaylea
TEACHING AWARDS
Senior Faculty Award, Ryan Murray
Junior Faculty Award, Brian Hu
UNIVERSITY FILM AND VIDEO FOUNDATION FACULTY RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION AWARDS
Heaven in a Wild Flower—Jesseca Ynez Simmons
The Venezuela of My Heart—Jaime Jacobsen
Body Parts—Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Helen Hood Scheer
Qatar Stars—Danielle Beverly
Hope of Escape—Amy Gerber-Stroh
GEORGE C. STONEY. AWARD
Sam Pollard