Foreign winners announced for Student Academy Awards

May 11, 2012 by Ian Evans

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 39th Annual Student Academy Awards have announced the three student films that have won in the Foreign Film category. The student filmmakers will be brought to Los Angeles to join U.S.-based Student Academy Award® recipients for a week of industry activities. The festivities will culminate in the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 9, at 6 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

The 2012 Foreign Film winners are (listed alphabetically by film title):

• For Elsie, David Winstone, University of Westminster, United Kingdom
• Of Dogs and Horses, Thomas Stuber, Film Academy Baden-Wüerttemberg, Germany
• The Swing of the Coffin Maker, Elmar Imanov, The International Film School Cologne, Germany