Film Studies Program/Department of English
Awards

The Film Studies Program announces the Film Studies Undergraduate Writing
Award, to be given each year for the best undergraduate essay on any topic related to
film history, film theory, or film criticism.

CASH PRIZE $250

Guidelines

1. Applicants must be matriculated in the School of Arts and Sciences.
2. Each Student may enter one piece of writing of no more than 15 pages. The essay must be a paper originally submitted for a course during the past calendar year (January through December 2009). Revisions are permitted.
3. Essays that have already won major university prizes, such as the Ossip or James Snead award, are ineligible.
4. Entries must be double-spaced and printed on one side of the paper only.
5. Each entry must include a cover sheet with the paper's title, the applicant's name, address, telephone, email, and social security number, as well as the name of the course and instructor for whom the essay was written. The applicant's name must NOT appear on any page of the actual essay.
6. Four copies of each entry (only 1 cover sheet needed per submission) should be submitted to Jennifer Florian, Film Studies Administrative Assistant, in 624 CL by Friday, December 11, 2009. Entries cannot be returned.
7. Entries will be judged by a committee of Film Studies faculty from different departments, who reserve the right to split the prize monies among multiple deserving entries. The winners will be announced prior to the University’s Honors Convocation on February 26, 2010.
8. Please direct any questions to Professor Vladimir Padunov, Associate Director of the Film Studies Program (padunov@pitt.edu).

FILM STUDIES
GRADUATE WRITING AWARD
DEADLINE – 12:00pm - DECEMBER 11, 2009

The Film Studies Program announces the Film Studies Graduate Writing Award, to be given each year for the best essay by a graduate student on the topic of film history, film theory, or film criticism.

CASH PRIZE $500

Guidelines

1. Applicants must be matriculated in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
2. Each Student may enter one piece of writing that was originally submitted for a course during the past calendar year (January through December 2009). Revisions are permissible.
3. Entries are limited to a maximum of 6,500 words (not counting footnotes, endnotes, or Works Cited) and must be in 10- or 12-point font. The applicant’s name must NOT appear on any page of the submitted essay. Each entry must include – as a separate document – the paper’s title as well as the following information: applicant’s name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, social security number, and the name of the course and instructor for whom the essay was written.
4. All entries must be submitted either electronically or on a diskette to Jennifer Florian (jrf16@pitt.edu), Film Studies Administrative Assistant, in 624 CL by 12:00PM on Friday, December 11, 2009.
5. Entries will be judged by a committee of Film Studies faculty from different departments, who reserve the right to split the prize monies among multiple deserving entries. The winners will be announced prior to the University’s Honors Convocation on February 26, 2010.
6. Please direct any questions to Professor Vladimir Padunov, Associate Director of the Film Studies Program (padunov@pitt.edu).