The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently announced that GIMME GREEN was among the 8 national finalists for a student academy award in the documentary short category.

Though GIMME GREEN did not place in the top 3, it is still a tremendous honor to be nominated. (that's what people keep telling us anyway!)

The full list of finalist can be seen below:

Beverly Hills, CA – Thirty-three students from 16 colleges and
universities have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences' 34th Annual Student Academy Awards(r)
competition. Their films will now be screened for and judged by
Academy members, who will vote to select the winners. Gold, Silver and
Bronze Medal awards, along with accompanying cash prizes of $5,000,
$3,000 and $2,000, may be presented in each of four categories.
Winning filmmakers will participate in a week of industry-related and
social activities, culminating in the awards ceremony on June 9.

The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title within category):

Alternative
"Bottleneck," Andrew Shipsides, Savannah College of Art & Design, Georgia
"Death, Destruction & the Weather," Emery C. Martin, California
Institute of the Arts, Valencia
"Fission," Kun-I Chang, School of Visual Arts, New York City, New York
"Moon Cake," Martin Stano, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Animation
"Africa Parting," Robyn Yannoukos and Brian LoSchiavo, University of
California, Los Angeles
"Art's Desire," Sarah Wickliffe, New York University, New York City
"Doppelganger," Ki-Peum Lee, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
"End," Joe Sun, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
"Icarus and the Tree Herder," Ian Worrel, California Institute of the Arts
"A Leg Up," Bevin Carnes, Ringling College of Art and Design
"Mirage," Youngwoong Jang, School of Visual Arts, New York City
"Respire, Mon Ami," Chris Nabholz, Ringling College of Art and Design
"Travel Diary," Keng-Ming Liu, School of Visual Arts, New York City

Documentary
"Cross Your Eyes Keep Them Wide," Ben Wu, Stanford University, California
"Gimme Green," Isaac Brown and Eric Flagg, University of Florida, Gainesville
"In the Wake of Catastrophe," Trevor Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
"Ladies of the Land," Megan Thompson, New York University
"Left in Baghdad," Peter Jordan and John Kane, Stanford University
"Long Haul," Erin Hudson, Stanford University
"Lumo," Bent-Jorgen S. Perlmutt and Nelson Walker, III, Columbia University
"Silences," Octavio Warnock-Graham, City College of New York

Narrative
"Deacon's Mondays," Destin Cretton and Lowell Frank, San Diego State
University, California
"The Drill," Joel Davenport, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
"High Maintenance," Phillip Van, New York University
"House of the Olive Trees," Thouly Dosios, University of California, Los Angeles
"Rundown," Patrick Alexander, Florida State University, Tallahassee
"Screening," Anthony Green, New York University
"The Second Coming," Ya' Ke Smith, University of Texas at Austin
"The Second Line," John Magary, Columbia University


Hudson and Wu (in the Documentary category) were Silver Medal winners
in 2005 with their documentary "Unhitched." Hudson was also a finalist
in 2006 with her documentary "Afloat."

To reach this stage, students competed in one of three regional
competitions. Each of those regions is permitted to send to the
Academy up to three finalist films in each of the four categories. A
foreign student also will be honored by the Academy in the Honorary
Foreign Film category. Five students have been named as finalists:
three from Germany and one each from the Netherlands and Serbia.

The Student Academy Awards were established by the Academy in 1972 to
support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate
level.

Tickets for the 34th Student Academy Awards presentation ceremony, at
which the Gold Medal-winning films will be screened in their entirety
along with the Honorary Foreign Film, are free and available now. To
request a maximum of four tickets, call the Academy's box office at
(310) 247-3000, ext. 130. The ceremony will be held on Saturday, June
9, at 6 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.