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Nissan
Presents
FOCUS.

Cinematography
Finished 16mm film.

$2,000 awarded in cash

The
Fourteenth
Annual
Student
Film
Awards.

Screenwriting
Original feature-length
screenplays. $4,500
awarded in cash prizes.

Allen Daviau. Jim

to

your break, win
your share of over
$100,000 in cash

Documentary
FILM Finished 16mm
cash prizes.

automobiles and

First-place

winner receives

gain recognition in
the film community.

a new

Glennon, Jacek Laskus.

the FOCUS Award

Ceremony, to be held
August 28,1990 at the

Women

in film
FOUNDATION AWARD

Directors Guild Theatre.

Finished 16mm film

Board

or

Sponsored by FOCUS.
Board of Judges:
Fern Field, Judy James,
Ilene Kahn, Lynn Roth,
Margot Winchester.

entry you submit
been

produced on a non¬
commercial basis
while you were
enrolled in a U.S.

Narrative film

EXPERIMENTAL FILM

college, university

Finished 16mm film.

art institute or

$4,500 awarded

in cash

prizes. First-place winner
receives

Sentra.

a new

Nissan

Sponsored by

Boyle * James Coburn * James
A. Corbett, C.A.S.
John Davis

*

Jules Dassin

*

Robert DeNiro

Stanley Donen

*

Richard Edlund,

A.S.C.* Federico Fellini

Forman

*

*

Milos

John Frankenheimer

Sponsored by John

PRODUCERS AWARD

Herbert Kline

Arthur Knight

Badham Films. Board

In Honor of Renee

of Judges:

Valente,

Tony Bill, Jed
Syd Field, Anne
Kramer, Midge Sanford.

Dietz,

*

Howard W. Koch

Honorary
Chairperson of FOCUS
and former president of
the Producers Guild of

* Barbara Kopple
Jennings Lang * David Lean * Jack

Lemmon

*

Lumet

Frank

*

Pollack

Burt

*

Sidney

*

Perry * Sydney

David Puttnam

*

Reitman

Lynne Littman

*

Ivan

Reynolds * Gene

Roddenberry * Herbert Ross

Sound

America. Finished 16mm

David E. Salzman

ACHIEVEMENT

film. $1,000 cash prize.
Board of Judges: Bill

Schlesinger * George C. Scott
Stirling Silliphant * Joan Micklin
Silver

Finnegan, Harry Gittes,

Spielberg * Peter Strauss * Jerry

Gale Anne Hurd, Alan

Weintraub

Rafkin, Renee Valente.

Bruce Williamson
Wise

*

*

Neil Simon

*

John

*

*

Steven

Gene S. Weiss
*

Robert

Frederick Wiseman

David L. Wolper * Peter Yates

Institutional

Charlotte Zwerin

awards

HONORARY CHAIRPERSON:

The

Renee Valente

winners

$4,500 awarded in cash

Finished 16mm film.

prizes. First-place winner

$2,000 awarded in cash

of the Narrative,

Competition
DEADLINE: MAY 4,1990
Get

rules from your

prizes. Sponsored by

Documentary and
Animated/Experimental
Categories of FOCUS

a

Film

complete set of

or

English,

Communications

Benihana of Tokyo,

will receive $1,000

Department. Or write to:

Amblin Entertainment. Universal Pictures.

Inc. Board of Judges:

in Eastman motion

FOCUS

Board of Judges:

Rudi Fehr,

picture film from

10 East 34th Street

New York, New York

Lewis

Allen, Joe Dante, Nina

Sponsored by

Board of Judges:

John

Lynzee

Canemaker. Ed Hansen,

Klingman, Carol

Eastman Kodak

Foch, Randal Kleiser.

Faith

Littleton, Clair Simpson,

Company for their

10016

Lynne Littman.

Jones,

Michael A. Stevenson.

film

(212)779-0404

rscM

Hubley, Chuck
Harry Love.

Tony

Barbara

Bruce Gilbert

Film editing

Sentra.

*

John

*

Ward Kimball

Finished 16mm film.

Nissan

Mitchell Block

*

*

*

Richards, Elliot "Tyson.

a new

Bill

John Avildsen

*

Ingmar Bergman

*

*

corresponding
college or university
of the first-place

receives

Badham

Robert Getchell

O. Mitchell, Charleen

Animated/

of governors:

Lewis Allen

Taylor Hackford

Nissan Sentra. Sponsored Finished 16mm film.
$2,000 cash prize.
by Eastman Kodak
Company. Board
Sponsored by Dolby
of Judges: Saul Bass,
Laboratories Inc.
Board of Judges: Gary
Lance Bird, Karen
Goodman, Marjorie
Bourgeois, Charles L.
Hunt, Humberto Rivera. Campbell, Donald

Enter your best
work now! The

paid,
Angeles for

Los

Renee valente

Nissan Sentra.

film. $4,500 awarded in

prizes and Nissan

flown, expenses

Mikael Salomon.

First-place winner receives
a new

This is your chance
of a lifetime to make

Nissan Presents

Company. Board of
Judges: John Bailey,

$1,000 cash prize.

Entries.

film school.

CEREMONY
All winners will be

feature-length screenplay.

Call For

must have

FOCUS AWARD

prizes. Sponsored by
Eastman Kodak

department's use.

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