Festivals & Awards

The Black Family Feature Film Prize

The Black Family Foundation has created a production fund of grants to be awarded annually to students whose film projects exemplify innovation in story, style and tone. The Foundation’s goal is to push the conversation of filmmaking forward and reward those filmmakers who can prove they have the vision and ability to do so.

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First Run Film Festival

Each Spring, the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television proudly presents the First Run Festival to showcase over 100 advanced projects in film, video, and animation. In its 73 year history, it has premiered the work of many NYU filmmakers, including Oliver Stone, Jim Jarmusch and Spike Lee.

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Second Year Showcase

Students in their second year of Graduate Film present their projects in a marathon screening event over the course of two days.

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Purple List

Inspired by the Hollywood Black List, NYU Grad Film presents The Purple List: the top production ready feature screenplays written by students or recent alums of the Grad Film Program.

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CARY FUKUNAGA PRODUCTION Fund

The Cary Fukunaga Production Fund is a $20,000 fund given to a Grad Film thesis student whose proposed project demonstrates a deep and abiding commitment to filmmaking featuring Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC) stories and/or voices.

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THE SLOAN WRITING & PRODUCTION AWARDS FOR CURRENT STUDENTS

This Sloan award is designed to assist writers and filmmakers in the creation of entertaining films about science and technology. This award encourages undergraduate and graduate students in the Film and Television or Dramatic Writing to portray intellectually engaging, entertaining images of scientists and their work.

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THE SLOAN FEATURE FILM AWARD FOR STUDENTS & ALUMNI

The Feature Film Award encourages Film & Television alumni and eligible students to produce feature-length narrative films that portray intellectually engaging, entertaining images and more realistic and accurate stories about science and technology to challenge existing stereotypes about scientists and engineers in the popular imagination.

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the Volker Bahnemann Award for Outstanding Cinematography

The Volker Bahnemann Award for Outstanding Cinematography was established in 2010 to honor Bahneman’s 48 years at ARRI; he served 32 years as CEO and President of ARRI Inc. and ARRI CSC. Mr. Bahnemann was responsible for the initiation, development and refinement of many significant filmmaking technologies such as the ARRI ALEXA, ALEXA MINI, ARRIFLEX 35III, ARRIFLEX 765, ARRIFLEX 435 AND ARRIFLEX 235 camera, as well as ARRI/Zeiss High Speed and Variable Prime lenses.

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Jeff Lima Production Award

The Jeff Lima Production Award is a $10,000 award given to a Grad Film thesis student or recent alum to shoot a short film project that advances the Latinx presence on screen. 

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FUSION FILM FESTIVAL

The Fusion Film Festival is New York University’s premiere film and television festival dedicated to celebrating women in film, television, and new media from student to icon. Fusion was founded in 2003 at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with the mission of encouraging, promoting, and inspiring women filmmakers and the collaboration between the sexes. Every spring, Fusion mounts a multi-day film festival with multiple screenings, industry panels, pitch meetings, master-classes, retrospectives, and student showcases.

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