Student Festivals

Rough Cut

Friday, April 30, 2021 | 5pm

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Rough Cut - the Lycée's Short Film Festival

Created in 2010, Rough Cut takes place each year and welcomes the participation of schools throughout New York City and beyond.

The Rough Cut 2021 winners by category are:

Animation (Students) - Wishing Well by Arthur Schneiders
Experimental (Students) - Panopticon by Omar Tawfik, Julius Gross and Elias Taouli
Animation (Teachers) - My Blood by Noam Soulat

Students are free to create films on any school appropriate subject; the only requirement is that the films are less than ten minutes long.

A jury of faculty, students and film professionals give out four awards: Best Animated Short, Best Documentary Short, Best Narrative Short, and Best Experimental Short. The audience also votes for its favorite movie!

The deadline to submit a movie is Monday, April 19, 2021.

Email Eric Samulski to submit your movie: esamulski@lfny.org.

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2020 Winners
- Best Narrative Film: "Camden U" by Will Ruggai, Xavier HS (warning: mature content)
- Best Documentary Film: "En Route" by Ahjani Jackson, LREI
- Best Experimental Film: "Carpe Diem" by Zoe Silverman, Lycée
- Jury Prize: Julien Zeitoun, Lycée ("Kettle" "Tissues" "Basketball Cornucopia" "An Afternoon in My Ears"
2019 Winners
- Best Narrative Film and the Audience Award: "Soaring" by Pier Paolo Piccoli (Lycée Français)
- Best Experimental Film: "Song of a Lonely Bird" by Jiaqi Liu (Staten Island Academy)
- Best Documentary Film and the Jury Prize: "The Revolution is at Hunter College" by Mathilde Malpartida Durroux, Gabriel Husain and Jaques Chrysostomou (Lycée Français)
Winners of the previous editions

2017: Evariste Gindrey, Lycée Français de New York, "Loop"
2016: Milo Sobral, FASNY, for “Sleepless”
2015: Sarah Maouchi, Zoé Lacau & Noémie Wendelbo
2014: Theo Le Sourd & Pierre Hirschler for “Apartment 42H”
2013: Theo Le Sourd & Pierre Hirschler for “Food Doodle”
2012: Xavier Ferland-Brissette
2011: Terry Noiran