The winners of the Lewis Award for Student Film of the Year have been announced. Arielle Gross \u201912 took first place with “Contact: The Eye,\u201d and received a $500 prize. Nick Wellin \u201910 took second place for “Showdown,” and received $300. The other two finalists were Connie Jiang \u201912 for “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and Rachel San Luis \u201910 for “Bullet in the Brain.”<\/p>\n
The selection committee, consisting of retired Lecturer in Film Studies Tom Sanny, English Professor John Simons, and History Professor Peter Blasenheim, looked at films chosen from the English department’s filmmaking classes as well as the student film festival.<\/p>\n
The Richard A. Lewis Memorial Film Award was endowed by Estelle and Barton Lewis in 2002 to honor the memory of their son Richard \u201975. The award serves to recognize high-quality student work as well as provide encouragement and support for future film projects. DVDs of the finalists for each year are on file in Special Collections at Tutt Library, and there is a DVD of this year’s finalists in the English department office. To view all the past winners, go to: http:\/\/www.coloradocollege.edu\/news_events\/releases\/2010\/May%2010\/LewisAwardDVDIndex.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The winners of the Lewis Award for Student Film of the Year have been announced. Arielle Gross \u201912 took first place with “Contact: The Eye,\u201d and received a $500 prize. Nick Wellin \u201910 took second place for “Showdown,” and received $300. The other two finalists were Connie Jiang \u201912 for “Love Song of J. Alfred … <\/p>\n