Departure of Love, by Jennifer Bors of the Ringling College of Art and Design, won the Gold Medal in the animation category at the 2010 Student Academy Awards.
The silver medal went to Dried Up, by Isaiah Powers and Jeremy Casper of the Kansas City Art Institute, and the bronze was presented to Lifeline, by Andres Salaff of the California Institute of the Arts.
The awards were presented in a ceremony Saturday night at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Oscar nominated director Henry Selick was a presenter, as was director Penelope Spheeris and Oscar-nominated actor Jeremy Renner.
The ceremony capped a week in which the finalists in each category participated in various industry-related networking and social events. The nominees did not learn which of the finalists earned the gold, silver and bronze honors in each category until the ceremony.
The 2010 winners in other categories are:
Alternative category
‘ Gold Medal: Surface: Film from Below, Varathit Uthaisri, Parsons The New School for Design, New York
‘ Silver Medal: Multiply, Emily Henricks, USC
Documentary
‘ Gold Medal: Yizkor (Remembrance), Ruth Fertig, University of Texas at Austin
‘ Silver Medal: Rediscovering Pape, Maria Royo, City College of New York
‘ Bronze Medal: Dreams Awake (Suena Despierto), Kevin Gordon and Rebekah Meredith, Stanford University
Narrative
‘ Gold Medal: God of Love, Luke Matheny, New York University
‘ Silver Medal: Down in Number 5, Kim Spurlock, New York University
‘ Bronze Medal: The Lunch Box, Lubomir Kocka, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia
Honorary Foreign Film
‘ The Confession, Tanel Toom, The National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, United Kingdom
