Ringling College students win Academy of Motion Picture award

Ringling College students won a silver medal in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences student award ceremony last week for a piece called “The Wishgranter.”

The 43rd Student Academy Award Ceremony honored Kal Athannassov, John McDonald and Echo Wu in the animation category.

“This whole experience has been incredible,” Wu said in a statement. “We did not expect to come so far with the film. But it is moments like this we are extremely glad we worked as hard as we did on the film to make it the best we possibly could.”

According to Animation World Network, the academy received a record number of entries this year—1,749 films from 286 domestic and 95 international colleges and universities—which were voted by a record number of Academy members, Of this year’s seven projects competing in the final round, three were the work of Ringling College students.

This makes the 12th Student Academy Award won by students of the Ringling College Computer Animation program.

This story was originally published September 26, 2016 at 1:47 PM with the headline "Ringling College students win Academy of Motion Picture award."