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RIFS is proud of its students and faculty whose films continue to feature at international
film festivals and win prestigious awards.

"La Testa di Golia" by Henry Worsley has just been selected to compete in the student film section of the 2024 Rome Independent Film Festival (RIFF)

“The Mouth of Truth” by Henry Worsley
Featured selection at Oxford University Film Festival 2024 (Winner Best Acting), the
London Director Awards 2024, and Worcester Film Festival 2024.

“Eliseo” By Anna Carville
Featured selection at Rome Independent Film Festival 2023.

“Grey” by John Attia
Winner BEST FILM at Luleå International Film Festival, finalist at International
Smyrna Film Festival, finalist at Seoul International Movie Festival, Winner BEST
STUDENT FILM at Athens International Film Festival, finalist at Stockholm City Film
Festival, finalist at Alvsbyn Film Festival, Sweden Film Awards.

“Pendulum” by Jasmine Jurgensen
Festival del Cinema di Cefalu, Golden Harvest Film Festival, Monthly Indie Shorts,
Merced Queer Film Festival, Duemila 30 International Sustainability Film Festival;
BEST STUDENT FILM AWARD won at Gothamite Monthly Film Awards, Best
Istanbul Film Festival & Golden Horse International Film Festival; BEST DIRECTOR
AWARD won at Paradise Film Festival; Best Short at Madras Independent Film
Festival; BEST ACTRESS AWARD won by Sofia Balossino at Diamond Eye Film
Festival and Gothamite Monthly Film Awards; semi-finalist at Lisbon Film
Rendezvous and nominee at Filmesque Cinefest, 2022.

“Those Who Don’t Jump” by John Attia
Official selection at: International Smyrna Festival, Sweden Film Awards, Stockholm
City Film Festival; ‘finalist’ at Seoul Monthly International Film Festival, and BEST
SHORT FILM AWARD won at Athens International Monthly Film Festival, 2022.

“Pranzo della Domenica” by Alexandra Vogel
Rome Independent Film Festival, 2019.

“Poiesis” by Alessandro Coia
Hyperfest International Student Film Festival, Firenze FilmCorti International
Festival, iFilm Festival, Rome Independent Prisma Awards, 2018/19.

“Dreamkeeper” by Whitney Stephenson
Rome Independent Film Festival, 2016.