Sun Cinematography Award

Our second Sun Cinematography award winner has been chosen: Leonora Anzaldua Burke.

Leonora's reel stunned the Sun Cinematography award team. She has a remarkable eye for light, color and composition, and we look forward to seeing how she makes use of the award to capture more of her visual art.

Stay tuned - we hope to announce this year's recipient by the end of the week (September 22-24).

Submissions are currently open until Friday, September 9, 2011 @ 5pm PT.

The award is open to female graduate students and female undergraduate students enrolled in USC CTPR Advanced Cinematography for the Fall semester, 2011.

Please get the word out!

We are now officially accepting submissions for the Sun Cinematography Award.

Submissions will be received until early September, 2011 (exact deadliine date TBA, but it will be approximately 1 week after the semester begins to enable all eligible applicants to be aware of this award).

To apply, start here »

Janine Sides is the first recipient of the Sun Cinematography award, which includes a $500 stipend towards her advanced cinematography project at USC, a mentorship with Nancy Schreiber, and a donation of 35mm Kodak stock.

She is still developing her plans for the project, and we look forward to seeing the result of her work!