2008

Brooklyn College
James Arrabito for We Can Get Them for You Wholesale
Nitzan Mager for Period Portraits

City College
Thomas Campbell for Birth of the Sun
Jeremy Joffee for The Bronx Balletomane

Columbia University
Yitz Brilliant for The Kiddush Man
Edward McGown for Out There
Doug Schachtel for High Street Plumbing

Ghetto Film School
Joel Arzon for Trials of Liberty and Justice
Melissa Murray for Craven's BD Bash
Jerelyn Rodriguez for Lonely Lana
Alecia Tatum for Queens Story
 
Destimona Anokye (Emerging Filmmaker Award)
Naheem Kujenya (Emerging Filmmaker Award)

Hunter College
Jenny Byrne for Fremente
Amir Minder for Why

Ithaca College
Colleen McAllister for Rose

New York University
Sasie Sealy for The Elephant Garden
Andrew MacLean for Sikumi (On the Ice)
Darius Clark Monroe for Midway
Stephen Neary for Shark Suit: The Musical (Marion Carter Green Award)

School of Visual Arts
Daniel Brosnan for The Oval Portrait
Lev Polyakov for Morning, Day, Evening, Night . . . and Morning Again

SUNY Purchase
Aleks Gezentsvey for MacKenzie Brown
Miranda Rhyne for Sleeping on the Wind
Andrew Spieler for All Before Dawn

Wesleyan
Genevieve Angelson (Charlie Andrews Award for Film History)
Andrei Bowden-Schwartz
Aude Cuenod
Lucia Maria Pier (Charlie Andrews Award for Film History)