Purpose: Leo Diner was an important inventor, filmmaker and businessman in the Bay Area film community who dedicated half a century to the motion picture and television industry. In 1991, his family established a memorial scholarship in his honor to encourage future generations of filmmakers to continue to invent and construct new cinematic tools and new ways of seeing.
The Leo Diner Memorial Scholarship Committee encourages students who are working on innovative new films to apply for the 2009 Leo Diner Award. The award, in the amount of $500.00, will be presented at Film Finals. The competition is open to seniors and graduate students in the Cinema Department.
The winner will be chosen by a committee composed of Cinema Department faculty, former award winners and representatives of the Diner family.
Students must submit:
- a rough cut of a scene of the film or video (5 minutes or less) on DVD or VHS;
- an outline of the project;
- a budget for the completion of the film (include all needs for materials and services); and
- a brief description of how the project is innovative in its approach to filmmaking.
