Motion Picture Academy Reveals Student Academy Awards Winners; Ceremony Moves To Toronto Film Festival

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has announced this year’s Student Academy Award winners and, for the first time, the honors will be presented in correlation with the Toronto International Film Festival. 16 students have been selected as winners of the 53rd Student Academy Awards competition out of 2,972 e

Additional features set to screen in New York include 'Clarissa' and 'The Man I Love,' both of which premiered at Cannes, as well as Chris Rock's Toronto-bound 'Misty Green.'

The inclusion of this film is is a significant step in breaking through an unofficial but real international boycott of Israeli cinema, particularly for films that tell an explicitly Israeli sto.