The Helen Hill Award for the Orphan Film Symposium

The Film and 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 are pleased to announce the Helen Hill Award. To honor the legacy of filmmaker, film educator, animator, and Columbia, SC native Helen Hill, the award supports innovative independent filmmakers. It is used to help fund its recipients to attend the Orphan Film Symposium.  There the recipient’s work is screened by an eclectic audience of other filmmakers, scholars, moving image archivists, curators, collectors, students, and others working in media beyond the mainstream.

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, self-expression, animation, small-gauge film, homemade movies and all things made by hand, collaboration, generosity, liberal spirituality, activism, love, play, community, and connection.

Recipients of this award in 2008 were Naomi Uman and Jimmy Kinder.  Read about them and the Orphans 2008 Tribute to Helen Hill at the Orphans blog. 

Contributions to fund this award are best as checks payable to:  THE NICKELODEON THEATRE.

Mail checks to: Susan Courtney, Director             Film and Media Studies Program University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 (803) 777-2361 courtney@sc.edu

Questions about the Orphan Film Symposium can be sent to: Dan.Streible@nyu.edu

www.nyu.edu/orphanfilms
www.cas.sc.edu/film
www.nickelodeon.org
www.helenhill.org