2014 Award Winners!

This year's Audience Award winner is "To Judge a Thief" directed by Luke Lowder. Luke and his team did an excellent job of getting the word out to their fans who delivered a decisive victory in the online poll. Excellent work, guys!

This year's Grand Prize winner is Paul Lopez for his film "Into Nether." This was Paul's second year submitting a film to the UAT DV Festival, and his dedication to learning the craft of digital filmmaking is apparent. Paul's efforts have won him the Grand Prize - a full-tuition scholarship to study Digital Video at University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, AZ. We look forward to welcoming him to the DV family!

Congratulations to both Luke and Paul, and to all our selected filmmakers this year!

2013 Award Winner: "Rain Dog" by Jordan Wippell

At this year's UAT Digital Video Festival, one film ran away with the Audience Award as well as will the esteem of the judges to win the Grand Prize - and that film is Jordan Wippell's exquisite black and white homage to Martin Scorsese and Jim Jarmusch, "Rain Dog."


Congratulations, Jordan! We look forward to you joining the UAT Digital Video Program!

2012 Awards Announced!

The University of Advancing Technology is proud to congratulate filmmaker Gwyneth Christoffel and her film "Recipe for Love" as the inaugural winner of the Grand Prize at the UAT Digital Video Festival! The Grand Prize comes with a full tuition scholarship to study at the award-winning Digital Video Program at  UAT, and we look forward to having this talented young filmmaker join us when she completes high school!

Furthemore, Gwyneth's film "Recipe for Love" also won the Audience Award, which was decided by a poll of both our in-theatre and online audiences. "Recipe for Love" was the clear favorite among our viewers! The Audience Award comes with a custom-designed trophy which itself was the result of a student contest. 3D Modeling students at the University of Advancing Technology competed for a $1,000 scholarship prize and the bragging rights to having designed the DV Festival's inaugural trophy. Student Mario Castaneda won the design competition for this entry, a sleek, sci-fi inspired icon that sums up both the film roots of the DV Program and its technology-infused future. The trophy will be printed using UAT's 3D rapid protoyper, and painted with a metallic finish by our resident prop-making expert Professor Paul DeNigris. This will be a truly one-of-a-kind piece!