Student Voices Short Film Competition

Student Voices 2011 Event Poster.

Pre-Event Reception at USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Student Voices Event Progam.

Branko Lustig and Michael Renov Present the Award for Creativity to Chris Rowe.

Branko Lustig and Michael Renov recognize competition participant Anissa Douglass.

Branko Lustig and Michael Renov recognize competition participant Joshua Kadish.

Branko Lustig and Michael Renov Present Sean Simerly with the Award for Best Narrative.

Mariana Aguilar accepts the Award for Viewers' Choice.

Student Voices 2011 Panel Discussion with Members of the Jury and Student Honorees, Moderated by Institute Executive Director, Stephen D. Smith.

Filmmaker Eric Kabera comments during the Q&A.

Sean Simerly participates in the panel discussion.

Shoah Foundation Institute Executive Director Stephen D. Smith addresses the audience at the Student Voices 2011 Event.

Winner for Creativity, Chris Rowe, and Institute Executive Director Stephen D. Smith.

Student competition winners with Members of the Jury and Institute Executive Director.

Competition winners with IML Professor D.J. Johnson.

Mariana Aguilar meets Holocaust survivor and educator Renee Firestone.

IML instructor Gabriel Peters-Lazaro in the audience at the Student Voices 2011 Event.

Stephen D. Smith with Mr. and Mrs. Branko and Mirjana Lustig.

On April 7, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute honored students from across the University who made short films using footage from the Institute’s archive of nearly 52,000 videotaped testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. The awards ceremony, screening, and panel discussion, made possible by Visions and Voices and HBO, were the culmination of the Student Voices short film competition, which invited all USC students to use the Institute’s archive in order to shape the conversation about violence and genocide. Among the competition jury and on the panel was Academy Award-winning producer Branko Lustig (Schindler’s List, Gladiator), who conferred these awards:

Outstanding Achievement in Narrative: Sean Simerly (USC Thornton School of Music)
Outstanding Achievement in Creativity: Christopher Rowe (USC School of Cinematic Arts)
Outstanding Achievement for Impact: Tiffany Cheng (USC School of Architecture)
Viewers’ Choice: Mariana Aguilar (USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences)

To view these and all of the finalists’ short films on the Institute’s website, visit http://dornsife.usc.edu/vhi/studentvoices/.

Album posted on: May 6, 2011