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507­400­2463 May 1, 2015
CINE Opens 58th CINE Golden Eagle Awards for Student & Youth Media Washington, DC (May 1, 2015) ­­­ Since 1957, the CINE Golden Eagle Awards have honored excellence in media. It’s the honor that launches careers — the CINE Golden Eagle was the first industry recognition given to rising powerhouses Steven Spielberg (1969), Ken Burns (1981) and Pixar Animation (1987). Now, the CINE Golden Eagle Awards have been reimagined to champion the next generation of great media makers. The new CINE Golden Eagle Awards for Student & Youth Media are now accepting submissions,​
with categories available for narrative, animated and documentary films from student and youth filmmakers. Beyond just industry prestige, the CINE Golden Eagle Awards are designed to give emerging filmmakers professional feedback and networking opportunities. All filmmakers receive the comments from their films’ review and jury panels, and judging criteria ​
is openly published on CINE’s website​
. A distinguished jury of notable filmmakers, producers and former CINE winners will select up to five finalists and a CINE Golden Eagle Award winner in each category. Golden Eagle Award winners and finalists will be recognized at CINE Celebrates events in New York, Los Angeles and Washington, DC this fall where they’ll meet industry executives and their fellow Golden Eagle Award­winning producers from the Professional and Independent Media cycles. Complete information and entry forms are available at ​
www.cine.org/student​
or FilmFreeway (https://filmfreeway.com/festival/CINEStudent)​
. Entries received by June 1 receive our lowest entry fees, and all submissions are due by June 30, 2015. ABOUT CINE CINE was created in 1957 as a private­public partnership with the USIA branch of the State Department as a way to accredit U.S. documentary and industrial films to send to large foreign festivals (Berlin, Venice, Rotterdam). The CINE Golden Eagle Award was created as the method to choose films for submission to the overseas festivals. Over the years, the CINE Golden Eagle Competition expanded to include student, independent, narrative and television productions. By the mid­1990s ​
CINE’s partnership with the State Department ceased, and the Golden Eagle Awards were presented as a symbol of peer­reviewed media excellence rather than as a conduit to foreign film festivals. In 2014, the CINE Golden Eagle Awards were relaunched with cycles specifically for professional, independent and student media. CINE Golden Eagle Award­winning alumni are working throughout the industry. For some, such as ​
Steven Spielberg​
(1969) and ​
Ken Burns​
(1981), it was their first major industry recognition; others, such as ​
Martin Scorsese​
(2006), ​
Barbara Kopple ​
(1992) and ​
Spike Lee ​
(1999) were honored well into their illustrious careers. CINE Golden Eagle Awards for Student & Youth Media www.cine.org/student Call for Entries: May 1, 2015 Early Deadline: June 1, 2015 Late Deadline: June 30, 2015 Finalist and Awards Announcement: September 9, 2015 ###