Spy Hop Awards and Distinctions

2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002

Awards and Distinctions 2008

• Founder's Pick Sonoma Environmental Film Festival 2008
  
  • Carbon Nation
• 1st Place Winner University of Utah Film Festival 2008
  • Death in the Family
• Comedy Category Winner University of Utah Film Festival 2008
  • Jerry
• Polynesian Film Screening 2008
  • Auhia kae kisu atu pe
  • Ofa he lei
• WinterPride Film Festival 2008
  • Disruptive Items
• Official Selection National Film Festival for Talented Youth 2008
  • Big Bad Wolf
• Best Documentary National Film Festival for Talented Youth 2008
  • Touching Sound
• Official Selection Newport Beach Film Festival 2008
  • Carbon Nation
• Official Selection FutureWave at SIFF 2008
  • Kick Me
• Official Selection Reel Teens Festival 2008
  • Jerry
• Official Selection Fear No Film Festival 2008
  • Jerry
• Nominated Utah Short Film of the Year Fear No Film Festival 2008
  • Two Loves
• Comedy Category Winner T Tauri Film Festival 2008
  • Jerry

Awards and Distinctions 2007

• Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2007
  
  • Mother Superior
• sWerve Shorts Screening 2007
  • Sticks & Stones
  • Disruptive Items
• Bronze Medalist Park City Film Music Festival 2007
  • Out Of Mind
• 1st Place Winner University of Utah Film Festival 2007
  • Out Of Mind
• Official Selection Zion Independent Film Festival 2007
  • Out Of Mind
  • Death in the Family
• Adobe Youth Voices/ListenUp! Voices of Change Project 2007
  • Mother Superior
• Teacher's College of Pedagogy in Cinema Society's 2nd Annual Film Festival 2007
  • Auhia Ke Kisu Atu Pe
• George Foster Peabody Award 2007
  • Beyond Borders: Personal Stories from a Small Planet
• Official Selection Teen Screen/Atlanta Film Festival 2007
  • Out Of Mind
• Official Selection Emergencia/Cine las Americas International Film Festival 2007
  • Mujeres
• Official Selection Jana International Film Festival 2007
  • Beyond Border: Personal Stories from a Small Planet
• National Film Festival for Talented Youth 2007
  • Gelatin Smile
  • Moab Monster
• Gwansu-gyo Film Series 2007
  • Gelatin Smile
• Official Selection Lisbon Village Festival 2007
  • Out Of Mind
• Offiical Selection Reel Teens Festival 2007
  • To Remember
• Best Documentary Award Reel Teens Festival 2007
  • Touching Sound
• Official Selection Fear No Film Festival 2007
  • To Remember
• Audience Choice Award Fear No Film Festival, "Reoriented" Category 2007
  • Touching Sound
• Utah Short Film of the Year Fear No Film Festival 2007
  • Mother Superior
• Official Selection T Tauri Film Festival 2007
  • Death in the Family
• Documentary Category Winner T Tauri Film Festival 2007
  • Touching Sound
• Official Selection Ozone Film Festival 2007
  • Mother Superior
• Best Documentary in the Youth Media Program Category Hamptons Film Festival 2007
  • Touching Sound
• Official Selection Indie Memphis Film Festival 2007
  • A Convenient Solution

Awards and Distinctions 2006

• Official Selection LDS Film Festival 2006
  
  • Moab Monster
    
• Murray Chamber of Commerce Business of the Month, January 2006
  
• Best Student Film Carolina Film and Video Festival 2006
  
  • Gelatin Smile
    
• Official Selection Nashville Film Festival 2006
  
  • Gelatin Smile
    
• Official Selection L.A. Film Festival 2006
  
  • Mother Superior
    
• Official Selection FutureWave Film Festival 2006
  
  • Gelatin Smile
    
• Official Selection NewFest 2006
  
  • Disruptive Items
    
• Official Selection Westport Youth Film Festival 2006
  
  • Gelatin Smile,
  • Moab Monster
  • Mother Superior
    
• Official Selection Future Filmmakers Festival 2006
  
  • Mother Superior
  • Forget About It
  • The Race to Outrun
  • Moab Monster
    
• Official Selection Fear No Film Festival 2006
  
  • Moab Monster
  • Big Water, UT
  • Split Ends
    
• Official Selection Atlanta Teen Screen Film Festival 2006
  
  • Forget About It
    
• Official Selection New Reel Short Film Competition/Park City Film Series 2006
  
  • Fovea
    
• 1st Place Winner New Reel Short Film Competition/Park City Film Series 2006
  
  • Forget About It
    
• Utah Best of State Medalist, 2006
  
  • Dead West
    
• Documentary Category Winner T Tauri Film Festival 2006
  
  • Mother Superior
    
• Narrative Category Winner T Tauri Film Festival 2006
  
  • Forget About It
    
• Official Selection Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2006
  
  • Disruptive Items
    
• Official Selection Seoul International Youth Film Festival 2006 – Winner Best Cinematography
  
  • Gelatin Smile
    
• Semi-Finalist Action Cut Film Festival 2006
  
  • Watcher
    
• Shriekfest: The Los Angeles Horror/SciFi Film Festival 2006
  
  • Watcher
  • Dead West
    
• Salt Lake Best of the Beehive 2006
  
  • Best non-profit to nurture future Spielbergs
    
• Official Selection Shriekfest: The Los Angeles Horror/SciFi Film Festival 2006
  
  • Watcher
  • Dead West
    
• Official Selection Screamfest 2006
  
  • Watcher
    
• Official Selection Eerie Horror Film Festival 2006
  
  • Dead West
    
• Official Selection Mill Valley Film Festival 2006
  
  • Moab Monster
    
• Official Selection Hamptons International Film Festival 2006
  
  • Forget About It
  • Mother Superior
    
• Official Selection Queer As Film/Boise State University 2006
  
  • Disruptive Items
    
• Official Selection Ojai Youth Film Festival 2006
  
  • Mother Superior
  • Big Water, UT
  • Gelatin Smile
    
• Official Selection Hollywood Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Festival 2006
  
  • Watcher
    
• Official Selection International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival 2006
  
  • Watcher
    
• Official Selection New Filmmakers Film Festival 2006
  
  • Watcher
• Regional Emmy 2006
  • Voices of Hope: Suicide Should Never be an Option
• Gold UBEE/Utah Broadcaster's Association 2006
  • Voices of Hope: Suicide Should Never be an Option
• 1st Place Winner Tucson Reel Inspiration Film Festival 2006
  
  • Multiple Choice
• Cultural Diversity Award Tucson Reel Inspiration Film Festival 2006
  • Culture
    
• KidsFirst! Selection
  
  • Mother Superior
    
• Narrative Winner Hamptons International Film Festival 2006
  
  • Forget About It

Awards and Distinctions 2005

• Official Selection DocuJam Film Festival 2005
  
• Kainga Malosi
  
• Official Selection Fear No Film Festival June 2005
  • Disruptive Items
    
• Official Selection Toronto Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2005
  
  • Disruptive Items
    
• Official Selection Emergenicia Festival 2005
  • Disruptive Items
    
• Official Selection L.A. Screamfest 2005
  
  • Deadwest
    
• Best Student Short L.A. Screamfest 2005
  
• Deadwest
  
• Best Student Short Movie National Festival 2005
  
  • Deadwest
    
• Official Selection Short Film Gloria International Film Festival 2005 – Nominee Best Short Film
  
  • Deadwest
    
• Official Selection Dam Short Film Festival 2005
  
  • No News Is Good News
    
• Official Selection Forest Film Festival 2005
  
  • No News Is Good News
    
• Official Selection Los Angeles Film Festival 2005
  
  • No News Is Good News
    
• Official Selection Spudfest 2005
  
  • No News Is Good News
    
• Official Selection Austin Film Festival 2005
  
  • No News Is Good News
    
• Official Selection 4th OFFensiva International Film Festival 2005
  
  • No News Is Good News

Awards and Distinctions 2004

• Official Selection 2004 Museum of Television and Radio Docu-Jam 2004
  • Me and My Mustache
    
  • The Other Side of America
• Official Selection 2004 Fledgling Film Festival 2004
  
  • Ice
    
  • Me and My Mustache
    
  • The Dumb Bunnies
    
• Official Selection Westport Film Festival 2004
  
  • AnimA
    
  • Frame
    
  • Ist
    
  • The Rose Laundry
    
  • The Dumb Bunnies
    
  • Not Just Another Pretty Face
    
  • Measure of Success
    
• Official Selection International Student Film Festival 2004
  
  • AnimA
    
  • Terminal
    
  • Frame
    
  • From Somalia to Salt Lake
    
  • Ofa He Lei
    
  • Voices Beyond The Barn
    
  • Measure Of Success
    
  • The Other Side Of America
    
  • Laughing Matter
    
  • Ice
    
  • The Dumb Bunnies
    
• Official Selection Denver Pan-African Film Festival 2004
  
  • Of All Places: Hip Hop In Utah
    
• Official Selection Fear No Film Festival 2004
  
  • Terminal
    
  • Ofa He Lei
    
  • Measure Of Success
    
• Official Selection Cine Las Americas 2004
  
  • Let Me Be Heard
    
  • Ofa He Lei
• Official Selection Philly Youth Media Jam 2004
  
  • Ofa He Lei
    
  • Lonely In A Couchless Room
    
  • Measure of Success
    
• Official Selection IFP Los Angeles Film Festival 2004
  
  • Of He Lei
    
  • Measure of Success
    
• Official Selection Reel Teens USA 2004
  
  • FRAME “Best Fiction”
    
  • The Rose Laundry
    
  • Me and My Mustache “Best Documentary”
    
• Official Selection San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian F.F. 2004
  
  • Walk In Closet
    
  • Sticks and Stones
    
• Official Selection Utah Multimedia Arts Festival 2004
  
  • Anima (Winner: Best of Show Video Category)
    
  • Queers Kick Ash (1st Place Web Category
    
  • The Rose Laundry (1st Place Video Category)

Awards and Distinctions 2003

• Official Participant Sundance Film Festival Reel Studio 2003
• Official Selection MNN Youth Channel National Series 2003
  
  • My Life
    
  • Order of The Star Spangled Student
    
  • When I Grow Up
    
  • Space Cats
    
  • Dog Gone Bone 
    
  • Home Under The Range
• Official Selection Museum of Television and Radio Docu-Jam 2003
  
  • The Walk In Closet
• Official Selection 2nd Annual Fledging Film Festival 2003
  
  • The Order of The Stars Spangled Student
    
  • Let Them eat Cake
    
  • Up Right
    
  • Climbing: A Personal Revelation
    
  • Released
    
  • Watch What You’re Watching
    
  • The Raft
    
  • Originality PSA
    
• Official Selection Atlanta Film Festival Teen Screen 2003
  
  • Influence
    
  • Originality
    
  • Watch What You’re Watching
    
  • Watch What They’re Watching
    
  • Let Them Eat Cake
    
  • Up right
    
• Invited Guest of The United Nations Assembly February 2003
  
  • Will They Ever Go Back?
    
• Official Selection CU2 Video and Film Festival NYC 2003
  
  • Watch What They’re Watching
    
  • Watch What You’re Watching “Cops”
    
  • Will They Ever Go Back?
    
  • The Good Stuff
    
  • Walk In Closet
    
• Official Selection IFP Los Angeles Film Festival 2003
  
  • The Order of The Star Spangled Student
    
  • The Raft
    
• Winner Adbusters Media Jam 2003
  
  • 2nd Place Watch What You’re Watching
    
• Winner Reel Teens USA Film Festival 2003
  
  • First Place Best PSA, Watch What They’re Watching
    
• Official Selection Reel Teens USA 2003
  • Climbing: A Personal Revelation
  • Watch What You’re Watching
    
  • Watch What They’re Watching
    
  • Original
    
  • Influence           
• Official Selection Salt Lake Film and Video Festival 2003
  • The Farm
    
  • The Raft
    
  • FLOZ (Winner Best Youth Media Artists)
    
  • Message: An Olympic Documentary
    
  • Sticks and Stones
    
• Official Selection Hampton’s International Film Festival 2003
  
  • The Raft
    
  • The Farm
    
  • Lucid Days***
    
  • Climbing: a Personal Revelation
• Official Selection Ojai Film Festival 2003
  
  • Me and My Mustache (Best Documentary)           
    
  • The Raft
    
  • The Goodstuff
    
  • Lucid Days*** (Best Fiction)
    
• Official Selection H2O Film Festival Harlem, N.Y. 2003
  
  • Of All Places: Hip Hop in Utah

Awards and Distinctions 2002

• Official Participant Sundance Film Festival Gen-Y Studio 2000, 2001 and 2002
• Official Selection Hampton’s International Film Festival 2002
  • Released
  • Up; Right
  • Sticks and Stones
• Official Selection Mill Valley Film Festival 2002
  • Sticks and Stones
  • Up; Right
    
  • Let Them Eat Cake
    
  • Released
• Official Selection Los Angeles Film Festival 2002
  
  • Up; Right
    
  • -Let Them Eat Cake
• Official Selection Peace and Human Security Media Festival 2002
  
  • Up; Right
• Official Selection Salt Lake Film and Video Festival 2002
  
  • Released*
    
  • Let Them Eat Cake
• Official Selection International Student Media Festival 2002
  
  • Watch What Your Watching**
    
  • Let Them Eat Cake**

*Best Youth Media Artists
**Special Recognition For Excellence in Production
***Lucid Days was produced independently by Spy Hop student Joe Eli Sasich and is being distributed by Spy Hop.