2024 Winners
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize
Love Me
Sam Zuchero '05 (BFA, Drama)
Andy Zuchero '07 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV)
US Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
Porcelain War
Brendan Bellomo ’08 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV), director/writer/editor
Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic
In the Land of Brothers
Raha Amirfazli ’25 (Kanbar Institute, Grad Film), director/writer/producer
Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic
Girls Will Be Girls
Alex C. Lo ’16 (MA, Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies), executive producer
All Filmmakers on Award-Winning Films
In The Summers (U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic)
Adam Dicterow ’12 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV), editor
Little Death (NEXT Innovator Award presented by Adobe)
Nick Hansell '19 (BFA, Drama), key assistant location manager (as Nicholas Hansell)
Marley Jean Fernandes ’21 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV), production assistant
Maria Pawla Velosa ’22 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV), production assistant
FRIDA (Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary)
Alexandra Johnes ’99 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV), producer
Justin Wilkes ’99 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV), producer
Union (U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for the Art of Change)
Blair McClendon ’18 (MFA, Kanbar Institute, Graduate Film), editor
*We apologize for any omissions! Please send edits or additions to tsoa.alumni@nyu.edu.