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Gregory Peck To Be Honored Posthumously by Angelus Awards.


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HOLLYWOOD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2003

Peck Selected as Recipient of 2003 Spirit of Angelus Award Student

Film Festival Announces Semi-Finalists from Record 472 Entries

The 8th annual Angelus Awards Student Film Festival has selected legendary actor Gregory Peck as the recipient of the 2003 Spirit of Angelus Award. The award will be bestowed posthumously to Peck, who died June 12 at the age of 87, during the Angelus Awards ceremony October 25 at the Directors Guild of America in Hollywood, California. His widow, Veronique, will accept the award and address the young filmmakers.

The Spirit of Angelus Award, presented for the first time in 2002 to Ricardo Montalban, is bestowed on a worthy individual of the entertainment industry whose body of work must be of surpassing quality and complement a faith lived with integrity and generosity.

Similarly, the Angelus Awards Student Film Festival, created in 1996 by Family Theater Productions, Hollywood, honors college and graduate-level student films that uphold and communicate values, such as triumph of the human spirit, hope, dignity, diversity and peace. A total of $23,000 in prize money, including the $10,000 Patrick Peyton Award for Excellence in Filmmaking, will be given to winners during the October 25 screening and awards ceremony.

Fifty-seven semi-finalists have been selected from a record 472 entries received from students representing 37 U.S. states, 19 other countries and 151 film schools, such as UCLA, USC, NYU and Florida State University Florida State University, at Tallahassee; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1857. Present name was adopted in 1947. Special research facilities include those in nuclear science and oceanography. . Foreign countries represented include Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Spain, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. The record 472 entries surpassed entries received in 2002 by 10%. Professionals in the film industry will also select the finalists, and a Blue Ribbon Jury A group of highly qualified persons selected by a court on the request of either party to a lawsuit to decide complex and specialized disputes.

A blue ribbon jury is also known as a special jury.
 will choose the winners.

Prominent celebrities and film industry professionals continue to support the Angelus Awards - the 2003 Honorary Committee includes Nicole Kidman, Harrison Ford, Dame Judi Dench and John Travolta, and sponsors include Fujifilm, Final Draft, Mole-Richardson Co., Loews Cineplex, Michael Wiese Productions, Priddy Bros. Productions and FotoKem.

For 56 years, Family Theater Productions, a Catholic media outlet, has been creating award-winning radio, television and cinema programs, which respect and celebrate individual dignity and the value of the family. These more than 800 programs feature hundreds of Hollywood stars and gave 1950s star actor James Dean and producer/director George Lucas their first on-screen credits.

Additional information is available at www.angelus.org or by calling (323) 874-6633.

2003 Angelus Awards Student Film Festival Semi-Finalists

Live Action

American Made - Marcus Cano - American Film Institute American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase  

The Anniversary - Ham Tram - University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising.  

Aubrey - Michael Pitts - Loyola Marymount University

Badger - Rajshree Ojha - American Film Institute

Camille - Ben Hayflick - Columbia University

The Conductor - Peter Vogt - National Polish Film School, Poland

Father - Shamyl Othman - Victorian College of The Arts The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) is a leading Australian visual and performing arts training institution. It is located in Melbourne, Australia, and offers courses and training in six academic disciplines: fine art, dance[1] , Australia

Fourteen - Thomas Southerland - American Film Institute

For Which It Stands - Kevin Shahinian - University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission  

Fueling The Fire - Tanja Mairitsch - American Film Institute

Grandchildren - Ben Nedivi - NYU, Tisch School of the Arts School of the Arts is the name of several schools (usually high schools) that are devoted to the fine arts, including:
  • Brooklyn High School of the Arts, Brooklyn, New York
  • Charleston County School of the Arts, Charleston, South Carolina
 

Mabul - Guy Nattiv - Camera Obscura School, Tel Aviv

Maree - James Pellerito - Columbia University

Misdemeanor - Jonathan Lemond - Columbia University

Mexican Dream - Gustavo Hernandez Perez - American Film Institute

My Mother's Keeper - Malissa Strong - Los Angeles City College Los Angeles City College, known as LACC, is a public community college in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California. A part of the Los Angeles Community College District, it is located on Vermont Avenue south of Santa Monica Boulevard.  

Non-Disclosure - Julie Pham - Columbia University

Off-Duty - Buboo Kakati - NYU, Tisch School of the Arts

Old Man Who Cried Shark - Matt White - NYU, Tisch School of the Arts

Passage - Jimmy Navi - American Film Institute

Postcards From France - Dan Barnett - Brigham Young University Brigham Young University, at Provo, Utah; Latter-Day Saints; coeducational; opened as an academy in 1875 and became a university in 1903. It is noted for its law and business schools.  

Shui Hen - Sonya Chi - American Film Institute

The Soda Jerks - Dominic Delay, O.P. - Chapman University

Sonny Listening - Sheldon Candis - University of Southern California

Sophie - Helen Lee - University of Texas, Austin

Spidermen - Harry Kellerman - Columbia University

Still Waters - Cinque Northern - NYU, Tisch School of the Arts

Three Days Of Darkness - Aaron Corpus - Loyola Marymount University

Today You Are A Fountain Pen - Dan Kitzer - American Film Institute

Tough All Over - Keith Brown - Boston University

What Really Happened During The Cuban Missile Crisis Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, major cold war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. After the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the USSR increased its support of Fidel Castro's Cuban regime, and in the summer of 1962, Nikita Khrushchev secretly decided to  - Charles McNamara - American Film Institute

Virgin - David Mitchell - Florida State University

Voyage Of The Kitty Kuku Kuku may mean:
  • Kererū, Maori name for the New Zealand pigeon
  • Kuku people, an ethnic group from South Sudan
  • Kuku language, their language
  • Kuku Yulanji tribe of aboriginals of the Daintree in North Queensland, Australia
 - Shane Sauer - Florida State University

Animation

Caged - Ashley Hoffman - University of California, Los Angeles

Cretaceous Christmas -- David Derrick -- Cal Arts

The Legend Of Ari Dee Beeyuten -- Lei Yang - Cal Arts

Little Red Plane -- Wira Winola & Joey Jones - Art Center College of Design Art Center built its reputation as a vocational school, essentially, preparing returning GIs for work in the commercial arts fields. It has traditionally maintained a strong "real-world" focus, emphasizing craftsmanship, technique, and professionalism while somewhat de-emphasizing theory.  

Night Light - Valerie Lapointe - Virginia Commonwealth University Formed by a merger between the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia in 1968, VCU has a medical school that is home to the nation's oldest organ transplant program.  

The Old Man, The Zither and The Dragon - Paul Wei - Rhode Island School of Design Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

One of the most eminent fine arts colleges in the U.S., located in Providence, R.I. It was founded in 1877 but did not offer college-level instruction until 1932.
 

Requiem - Roger Oda - UCLA Animation Workshop

Snout - Tilmann Vogt - FH Maine, Germany

Turandot - Jung A Yoo - Cal Arts

A Work in Progress - Wes Ball - Florida State University

Documentary

Born In Beirut - Liliane Matta - Loyola Marymount University

Desiree - Max Walker - Victoria College of The Arts, Canada

Guguletu Ballet - Kristin Pichaske - Stanford University

Helping Hands - Tim Burke - Visionaries Institute of Suffolk University, MA

My Brother's Wedding - Dan Akiba - The City College of New York “City College” redirects here. For other uses, see City College (disambiguation).
CCNY was the first free public institution of higher education in the United States[3]
 

Oaxacan Hoops -- Olga R. Rodriguez - University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal  

Shadow Children: Five Stories From The Street - Alex Farnsley, San Diego State

Sid Vision - John Jack, Donna Pazdera & Todd Southern - University of Florida

Texas Doughnut Shop - Wook Steven Heo - Syracuse University

A Thousand Words - Melba Williams - Stanford University

Undesirables - Marianna Yarovskaya - University of Southern California

A Voyage In Cyprus - Gerasimos Rigas & Melis Senerdem - University of California, Berkeley

When The Storm Came - Shilpi Gupta - University of California, Berkeley
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