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 10/05/2007
SCAD student Audrey Davis wins HBO Films/Film Society of Lincoln Center Student Trailer Competition
 SAVANNAH, Ga. — Savannah College of Art and Design student Audrey Davis has been named the winner of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Student Trailer Competition, presented by HBO Films. Davis is an undergraduate student in the SCAD broadcast design and motion graphics program.
Watch the trailer.
As the national competition winner, Davis will have her trailer re-mastered by HBO Films and shown before every Film Society of Lincoln Center screening at the Walter Reade Theater for the next two years. The trailer will premiere this Saturday before the festival’s centerpiece film at the 45th New York Film Festival.
Davis, an Atlanta native, also will receive a trip to New York City for the premiere, her first trip to the city, where she will be awarded a $5,000 check.
Davis’s entry was selected following a nationwide competition open to all enrolled college students. Students were asked to create a trailer of 60-seconds or less in length that showcased the Film Society of Lincoln Center and its major annual festivals, programs and events.
Davis’s winning trailer features an animated grid that looks like a subway map, where each “stop” highlights one of the Film Society’s offerings.
Entries were judged by a panel of film industry professionals, including Mira Nair, director of “The Namesake” (2006), “Monsoon Wedding” (2001) and “Salaam Bombay” (1988); Bob Berney, president of Picturehouse, the theatrical distribution company behind such films as the Academy Award-winning film “Pan’s Labyrinth” (2006) and “El Cantante” (2006); Nelson George, author and director of “Life Support” (2007) with Queen Latifah; Sam Martin, vice president of HBO Films, whose projects include the multiple Emmy®-winning “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee” (2007) and “Lackawanna Blues” (2005); Marian Masone, managing director for festivals and associate director of programming for the Film Society of Lincoln Center; and Steve Perani, a noted creative director who has overseen numerous major and independent film marketing campaigns.
“Our judges were struck by the outstanding talent displayed by all the entries in the competition,” said Claudia Bonn, executive director of the Film Society. “Audrey’s winning selection really captures the spirit of New York, home of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the New York Film Festival.”
The SCAD broadcast design and motion graphics program offers Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees. Students learn a mixture of graphic design in motion and experimental animation, creating main titles for television and film, commercials and network design, as well as design and animation for new formats such as cell phones and iPods.
“When I was introduced to the motion graphics major, I realized that it encompassed all I wanted to do,” said Davis. “I’m one of those people who watches the Super Bowl for the commercials and can't be late to movies because I'll miss the opening credits.”
Named one of Kaplan’s “25 cutting-edge schools with an eye toward the future,” the Savannah College of Art and Design is a private, nonprofit, accredited institution with locations in Atlanta and Savannah, Ga., and in Lacoste, France. Undergraduate and graduate degree programs also are offered online through SCAD-eLearning. The college offers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Architecture, Master of Arts, Master of Arts in Teaching, Master of Fine Arts, and Master of Urban Design degrees.
For more information about the college, e-mail admission or call 800.869.7223 or 912.525.5100 in Savannah, or call 877.722.3285 or 404.253.2700 in Atlanta.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, to recognize and support new directors, and to enhance the awareness, accessibility and understanding of film. Advancing this mandate today, the Film Society hosts two distinguished festivals: the New York Film Festival, which annually premieres the best films from around the world and has introduced the likes of François Truffaut, R.W. Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Pedro Almodóvar, Martin Scorsese, and Wong Kar-Wai to the United States, and New Directors/New Films, co-presented by the Museum of Modern Art, which focuses on emerging film talents. Since 1972 when the Film Society honored Charles Chaplin, the annual Gala Tribute celebrates an actor, filmmaker or industry leader who has helped distinguish cinema as an art form. Additionally, the Film Society presents a year-round calendar of programming at its Walter Reade Theater and offers insightful film writing to a worldwide audience through Film Comment magazine.
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