Celebrating its 40th year, the School of Communication's Visions Awards celebrates outstanding visual student work from both graduates and undergraduates. Highlighting the best in documentary, fiction, digital and new media, screenwriting and photography, the 2019 Visions Awards took place on May 8, 2019 at 8 PM in the Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman Theater. Congradulations to all the winners!

VISIONS NOMINEES 

Graduate Screenplay

DOC Screenplay

Winner: Beth Ebisch - Protecting Giants 
Emily Crawford - Game Flow
Lawrence Green - The Mayor of Ward 8

Fiction Feature Screenplay

Winner: Kat A. Cooper - Follow or Die
Sam Felix Aung - The Queen Without A Throne 
Laura Decelles - Maria, In Lights 

Fiction Short Screenplay

Winner: Zan Gillies - Last Strike 
Kat A. Cooper - At Death's Door
Laura Decelles - Topolina 
Jessica Marcy - Unaccompanied 

Graduate Video

Graduate Doc

Kat A. Cooper - Fear Itself
Winner: Quame Hamlin - Becoming Donna Slash
Sunshine Yang - 2018 Montgomery College NASA Swarmathon
Lizbeth Nthanze Kariuki - Bravery With Grace
Eman Alghamdi - A Piece of Paper

Graduate Fiction Video

Quame Hamlin - A Mother's Love
Winner: Shirin Saghaie - Katie
Quame Hamlin - Family Business

Graduate Thesis

Fiction Thesis

Winner: Zan Gillies - Last Strike 
Caroline Chadbourne - Grace Under Pressure 

DOC Thesis 

Kent Wagner - Borneo's Vanishing Tribes 
Winner: Mike Kuba - The Bridge
Emily Crawford - Game Flow 

Undegraduate Screenplay

Feature Screenplay

Michael Tauber - Goodbye Mr. Moon
Winner: Arnetia Walker Francis - The Other Side of The Journey

Undergraduate Documentary Screenplay

Winner: Cecilia Wardani - Momoye
Amanda Luthy - Edelweiss

Short Fiction Screenplay

Taylor Mickal - 3 Miles
Winner: Jacob Montes - Glow
Allison Kraus - Ride Request

Undegraduate Video

Undergraduate DOC

Winner: Cassidy Nelson - Life in a DC Park
Tim McPhillips - Still Here
Jungbin Yoon - In the End
Fernando Rocha & Fernanda Perez - El Maestro

Undergraduate Fiction Video

Winner: Danielle De Vito - Něco Si Přej
Melany Rochester & Sofia Abate - Petra
Allison Kraus - Capture

Photography

Experimental 

Winner: Jacob Montes - Syzygy

Commercial

Winner: Matt Francisco - Matt Francisco Commercial Photography 
Daisy Li - Four Seasons 

Single Image

Winner (Tied 1st): Matt Francisco - At Midnight 
Winner (Tied 1st): Kyle Mendlesohn - This Poem Is Not Meant To Be Read Aloud 

Fine Art Essay

Winner: Izzy Capodanno - Untitled 
Molly Page - Dissociation 
Jay Strojnowski - Untitled 
Matt Francisco - Prism 
Kyle Mendelsohn - Fragments 

Documentary Essay

Winner: Kitty Kouwenhoven - Across Town

Photo Essay

Allie Ngo - Lovers & Daughters 
Winner: Xianqui (Kim) Liang - Cuba

Other

Broadcast

Emma Galasso - Ashes To Go
Winner: Emma Galasso - Wilson High School Name Change

Environmental

Amelia Tyson - Water: Keep It Flowing
Winner: Dhara Brown in COMM-568 - Anacostia Revealed

Music Video

Beth Cassidy & Éowyn Fain - nah. | Ur So Mad!
Quame Hamlin - Broken Tape Deck
Winner: Laura Snyder - Jacqueline Suite

New Media

Elaine Wijaya Oey - Blow: Logo Animation
Jack Tollman - District Docs Logo Animation
Winner (Animation): Lesia Olesnyckyj - Principles of Graphic Design: Composition
Winner (Editing): Laura Decelles - Autobiographical Mashup
Elizabeth Carpio & Maria Cantisano - Travesia
Emily Eldridge Hall - people who look like me
Winner (Website): Juana Capelluto - IKEA-Assemble: Mobile App
Alexis Arnold - The School Shootings That Weren’t
Juana Capelluto - Chomper Chums: Mobile App
Winner (Webseries): Caecilia Wardani - I Think I'm In Love With pt.1
Winner (Digital Imaging): Nora Marris - True Crime Animals
Winner (Motion Graphics): Alexis Arnold - Brands in Motion: The Blackprint

Named Award Winners

WILL Interactive: Zan Gillies - Last Strike

SONY: Mike Kuba - The Bridge

IMG New Media: Juana Capelluto - IKEA-Assemble: Mobile App

Ron Sutton Visual Literacy: Lauren Mitchell, Lia Patentas, Julia Morgan

WIFV Craft Editing: Laura Decelles - Autobiographical Mashup

WIFV Craft Audio: Allison Krause - Capture

WIFV Craft Cinematography: Melany Rochester & Sofia Abate - Petra

WIFV Diversity & Inclusion: Fernando Rocha & Fernanda Perez - El Maestro

 

2018 Winners

WIFV Craft Award: Cinematography

Matt Cipollone - Freelancers

WIFV Craft Award: Audio

Fernando Rocha - An American University

WIFV Craft Award: Editing

Jean-Michel Christopher Fischre - Lucidity Visions of Truth

Environmental Production

Students in COMM-568 - Healing Baltimore

CMSI Social Justice Award

Matt Cipollone - Signs

Ron Sutton Visual Literacy Award

Grace Rodgers
Stephanie Mirah
Abigail Nix

Undergraduate Documentary

Fernando Rocha - An American University

Undergraduate Fiction

Emily Hall - Rozalie

Screenplay: Documentary

Elizabeth Herzfeldt-Kamprath - New Breath of the Wilderness

Screenplay: Teleplay

Becky Prosky - Rumspringa

Screenplay: Short Fiction Undergraduate

Svetlana Archvadze - In Need of a Friend

Screenplay: Short Fiction Graduate

Quame Hamlin - A Mother's Love

Screenplay: Feature

Jolene Carter - Collision

Photography: Single Image

Nicola Etzion "Luke"

Photography: Portfolio

Delfina Barbiero

Photography: Experimental/Installation

Emma Shetter - Emma Blaire
Hannah Solus - Transitions

Photography: Series

Emma Shetter - Underwater Series

John Bowden Scholarship

Jordan McCormack

Diversity & Inclusion Award

Fernando Rocha - An American University
Hannah Solous - Transitions

Pulitzer Prize Fellowship

Kristian Hernandez

Animations

Trevor Hembling - About Me

Website

Anil Cole-Jon - Experience The Spirit of Rescue!

Commercial or PSA

Madison Long - Reducing Water Use

Video Mashup

Haley Margaret Sheehan - The Forgotten American Patriot

Motion Graphics Reel

Madison Long - Demo

Web Series

Kris Higgins - Footnotes

Best in New Media Award

Kris Higgins - Footnotes

Graduate Fiction

Eric Ruiz - 45 Willow Drive

Graduate Documentary

Seba Alluqmani - Alkaif

Sony Award for Grad Thesis

Shayla Racquel - Riverment