A Selective List of Awards, Screenings and Scholarships
for UNT MFA Students in the RTVF Department, 2005-2008

Student Categories
           
Awards of Excellence, Broadcast Education Association Festival of the Arts (2007, 2008)

Finalist, Documentary, NextFrame International Student Film Festival (2008)

Best Documentary, Scene First Student Film Festival (2007)

First Place, Student Documentary, Thin Line Film Festival (2007)

First Place, Reality Bytes Film Festival (2007)

Best Student Film, Women in Film-Dallas “Chick Flicks” Festival (2007)

Two Finalists, Documentary, NextFrame International Student Film Festival (2006)

Finalist, Angelus Awards Student Film Festival, Hollywood (2006)

First Place, Documentary, NextFrame International Student Film Festival (2005)

Professional Categories

Barbara Jordan Media Award (2007)

Washington DC Independent Film Festival, World Cinema Special Recognition Award (2007)

Audience Award, Women in Film-Dallas “Chick Flicks” Festival (2007)

Best Music Film, International Christian Film Festival (2007)

Audience Award, Foundation for the Advancement of Independent Film Festival, Los Angeles. (2006)

Family Award, USA Film Festival (2006)

Finalist, Montana CINE International Film Festival (2006)

Best Short Documentary, Austin Film Festival (2005)

Films also selected for screening in the following venues:

Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (2005 and 2008)

AFI-Dallas International Film Festival (2008)

Big Muddy Film Festival (2008)

Charlotte Film Festival (2007)

Global Visions International Film Festival, Canada (2007)

10th Mediterranean Film Festival, Lavrion, Greece (2007)

II International Documentary Film Festival, Mexico City (2007)

Daytona Beach Film Festival (2007)

Dallas Video Festival (2005, 2006, 2007)

University Film and Video Association Conference (2005, 2006, 2007)

San Francisco Documentary Film Festival (2006)

International Documentary Film Festival, Istanbul

KERA (PBS) Dallas Frame of Mind Series

KUHT (PBS) Houston Public Television

Houston Black Film Festival

Santa Fe Film Festival
           
Texas Independent Filmmakers Festival

Annapolis Film Festival

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

Scholarships/Grants Won By Students While in the Program(All $1000 or more)

McNair Scholars Fellowship ($12,700)

Two UNT University Fellowships ($10,000 each)

SWAMP Emerging Filmmakers Fellowship Program ($5,000)

Pulaski Scholarship for Advanced Graduate Studies ($5000)

Two Women in Film - Dallas Production Completion Grants ($3500 each)

Five Lone Star EMMY Scholarships ($1000-$1500 each)

Women in Film - Dallas Scholarship

Five UNT Acedemic Achievement Scholarships

Two Texas Filmmaker’s Scholarships  

UNT Equity and Diversity Scholarship

Four Don Staples Graduate Scholarships           

Two Eastman Kodak Film Stock Grants