The First Annual Zoom In Awards

the finalists for The First Annual Zoom In Awards, including Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient, Albert Maysles.

The winners will be announced at an exclusive event on February 4th, 2005 at Manhattan cocktail lounge, Mannahatta, where they will receive prizes provided by Apple, Wacom, Boris, The Edit Center, LaCie, Outpost Digital, Manhattan Edit Workshop, Glidecam, Tekserve, and others.

The Zoom In Awards are designed to recognize the talented creative students and professionals whose contributions to the film and television industry will define the "Future of Digital Production".

Three finalists in both Professional and Student divisions have been selected in the following categories: Best Editing, Best Cinematography, and Best Graphics/FX. And the finalists are:

- Student Editing: Christina Cingone, Claudia Myers, John Balkhi
- Student Graphics/FX: Ben Bumgarner, David Strick, Adam Baker
- Student Cinematography: Erika Rand, Ryo Murakami, M. Jason Mirch
- Professional Editing: Les V. Perkins, Pamela Scott Arnold, Christine Mitsogiorgakis
- Professional Graphics/FX: Roger Kriegel, Kristyn Hume, Vincent Tsu
- Professional Cinematography: Guy Roland, Ed Gutentag, Damian Acevedo

Finalists’ films are being screened by members of a select jury, including (in alphabetical order):

- Jake Abraham (Producing Partner: InDigEnt)
- Johnny Burke (Videographer: Iron Maiden)
- Kara Kaplan (Director: Graphics Dept.: NBC, MSNBC)
- James Gettlinger (Lighting Designer: Blue Sky Studios)
- Micah Green (Founding Member: Cinetic Media)
- Steve Harris (Bassist and Founding Member: Iron Maiden)
- Steve James (Director: Hoop Dreams, Stevie)
- Ellen Kuras (Cinematographer: Blow, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
- Edward Lachman (Cinematographer: Erin Brockovich, The Virgin Suicides)
- Ray Lambiase (Vice President, Art Production & Design: MSNBC)
- Jeffrey Levy-Hinte (President: Antidote Films, Producer: High Art, Laurel Canyon)
- Chris & Trish Meyer (Founder: CyberMotion)
- Richard Peña (Director: NY Film Festival. Assoc. Film Professor: Columbia University)
- Stacy Peralta (Writer/Director: Dogtown and Z Boys, Riding Giants)
- Adrienne Shelly (Writer/Director/Actor: Sudden Manhattan, I'll Take You There)
- Bart Walker (VP, International: ICM. Clients include: Tim Robbins, Ed Burns)