View the full list of this year’s Winners!
Video of Night #1 EventMarch 1st Winner Announcements:
2-Year Colleges, Audio, Documentary, and Film & Video Competitions
Video of Night #2 WinnersMarch 2nd Announcements:
International, Interactive Multimedia & Emerging Technologies, News, Scriptwriting, and Sports
Best of Festival Awards Event
March 29th
1st Place and Best of Competition Winners are finalists for the King Foundation Best of Festival Awards, when we announce the best overall entry from each competition.
This Year’s Best of Festival Winners Announced March 29th
Last Year’s Faculty Best of Festival Winners
BoF Faculty Audio:
Don Connelly, Western Carolina University
Haulin’ Radio Waves (Radio Station Promo, PSA, Commercial)
BoF Faculty Documentary:
Sangsun Choi, Malone University
Written in Stone (Short Form Documentary)
BoF Faculty Film & Video:
Keir Politz & Jonathan Mason, Rowan University
Entropia (Narrative Category)
BoF Faculty Interactive Multimedia:
Ed Youngblood, Auburn University
Domestic Violence Intervention Center Website (Website)
BoF Faculty News:
Mike Castellucci, Michigan State University
Coffee House Concert (Television Feature News Reporting)
BoF Faculty Scriptwritng:
Matt Webb, Huntington University
Sleepwalker [Feature] (Feature Category)
BoF Faculty Sports:
Ken Wyatt, East Carolina University
“BLOOD, SWEAT, and TEARS: Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football” (Short Form Sports Video)
2020 Student Best of Festival Winners
BoF Student Audio:
Nour El-Tobgy, The American University in Cairo
The President Jailed my Grandfather (Audio Category – International)
BoF Student Documentary:
Chad Veal & Brendan Wallace, Taylor University
20 Over (Micro Documentary)
BoF Student Film & Video:
Parker Bohner, Madalin L. Stenzel, Lorenzo Phrasavath & Emily Netburn, University of Florida
The Lead (Narrative Category)
BoF Student Film & Video:
Alyssa Alley, Alexa Bland, Kesmine Hickman& Sarah Wickenhauser, Huntington University Arizona
Tobeus & Toby (Animation/Experimental/Mixed )
BoF Student Interactive Multimedia:
Uprooted Staff, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Uprooted: The Faces of the Venezuelan Crisis (Multimedia Storytelling)
BoF Student News – Radio:
Melissa Duenas, University of Southern California
How Chamorros in the Diaspora are Taking Back Their Culture (Radio Feature Reporting)
BoF Student News – Television:
Jordan Elder, Arizona State University
Powering a Nation, Cronkite News, Jordan Elder (TV News Long Feature)
BoF Student Newscast:
Noah Kelly, Arizona State University
Cronkite News Nov. 7, 2019 (TV Newscast (4-Days or More))
BoF Student Scriptwriting:
David Hyland, Palm Beach Atlantic University
Virtuous Enigma (Original TV Series Pilot )
BoF Student Sports:
Connor Nichols & Luke Astle, Ball State University
The Comeback Kid: Nick LaVanchy (Television Sports Story/Feature Long)
BoF Two-Year Colleges:
James Dymond, Los Angeles City College
Blue Lapse (Narrative)
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Best of Festival Winners Listed Below
Winners can print off copies of their awards
Winners can print off copies of their awards by selecting their schools group below and printing the page of their award
Aims Community College – Colorado State University
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East Tennessee State University – Lynn University
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Malone University – Southern Illinois University @ Carbondale
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Southern Illinois University @ Carbondale – University of Indianapolis
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University of Kansas – York College of PA