Fine Cut Prizes

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Enter your film to "Fine Cut Festival of Films," for a chance to be one of the lucky finalists featured in one of the six-half-hour episodes on KCET in the Fall and one of the prize packages below.

Jack Larson Student Filmmaker of Southern California Award Winner:

$10,000 camera package rental from Keslow Camera
$2,000 for use on their next project
8 hr ADR session from SB Music and Post
NFMLA student membership
Final Draft 11
Tickets to attend the Virtual KCET Cinema Series and series passes when it resumes in theaters.

Narrative Winner:

$10,000 camera package rental from The Camera Division
$1,000 production supply rental from Quixote
NFMLA student membership
Final Draft 11
Tickets to attend the Virtual KCET Cinema Series and series passes when it resumes in theaters.

Documentary Winner:

$12,000 toward 10hr Drone Rental package from Drone Dudes
International Documentary Association membership and the winning student will be featured in IDA’s monthly Member Memos
NFMLA student membership
Final Draft 11
Tickets to attend the Virtual KCET Cinema Series and series passes when it resumes in theaters.

Animation Winner:

Wacom One Creative Pen Display
ZBrushCore
One year license to Storyboard Pro and Harmony
Final Draft 11
Tickets to attend the Virtual KCET Cinema Series and series passes when it resumes in theaters.
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles Student Membership
DragonFrame 5 and keyboard

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A still from the short animated film "Wolf and Cub" depicts a Black father and son standing at the edge of a cliff, looking off to a vast desert landscape. In the middle of the desert landscape is a building. The son is piggy-backed on the father's shoulders and the father is holding some sort of staff.

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