Helen Hill Award
The Film & Media Studies Program at the University of South Carolina, the Nickelodeon Theatre of Columbia, South Carolina, and New York University's Department of Cinema Studies collaborate to identify recipients of the Orphan Film Symposium's Helen Hill Award. To honor the legacy of filmmaker, educator, animator, and Columbia, SC native Helen Hill, the award supports innovative independent filmmakers.
Two media artists are recipients of the Helen Hill Award for 2010:
Danielle Ash, a Brooklyn-based artist and media professional who received her MFA in Experimental Animation from Cal Arts in 2008. She has worked extensively as a producer, editor, title designer, and animator, while also pursuing her individual work in the form of a dozen animated shorts. Her most recent film is Pickles for Nickels, which can be previewed at DanielleAsh.com.
and Jodie Mack, who received her MFA in Film, Video, and New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2009, she completed an animated musical, Yard Work Is Hard Work. She teaches in the College of Computing and Digital Media at Depaul University.
Both filmmakers will attend the 7th Orphan Film Symposium, hosted by NYU, April 7-10, 2010, at the Visual Arts Theater in New York City. They will screen their work for an eclectic audience of other filmmakers, scholars, moving image archivists, curators, collectors, students, and others working in media beyond the mainstream.
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This award honors work that affirms Helen Hill's artistic legacy, lived values, and everyday passions. In a film culture dominated by corporate interests and the values of consumerism, the Helen Hill Award supports radically independent, innovative filmmaking of exceptional talent. The award will go to a filmmaker whose work celebrates and embodies such things as creativity, selfexpression, animation, small-gauge film, homemade movies and all things made by hand, collaboration, generosity, liberal spirituality, activism, love, play, community, and connection.
Contributions to fund this award are best as checks payable to:THE NICKELODEON THEATRE
Mail checks to:
Susan Courtney, Director
Film & Media Studies Program
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Questions to Dan.Streible@nyu.edu.