Congratulations!

PIFA's 2019 Winner for 

Best Student Film:

Taking Out Chinese from Chinese take out – (Director: Tianyao Ma; Producers: Tianyao Ma, Robert Benjamin Jaffe, Siyi Fu; documentary; 14 min. 10 sec.; 2018; China, filmed in the US; Chinese and English) a short personal documentary about the filmmaker as an international student from China, shocked by the “Chinese-ness” represented by those commonly seen Chinese take-out food restaurants in Philadelphia. Why are they everywhere? Why do they all look so similar without being chains? Who are the people behind them?

The other 2019 nominees were:

​Nailed It (Director-Screenwriter-Producer: Benjamin Patrick Timperio; romance, comedy, drama, film short; 10 min. 52 sec.; 2018; US; English) In a post-apocalyptic world, the last man on Earth finds company in an unusual form.

The Liar – (Director-Producer: Jack Salvadori; Screenwriter: Laurence Smither; surreal, comedy, 1960s; 18 min. 54 sec.; 2018; UK; English) 1963. As the swinging cultural revolution is flourishing in London, a shadow of paranoia is casted on a tiny, English town.
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Roy, the village fool, is not only convinced that Adolf Hitler is still alive, but also that he is running the local bakery. How much should his obsessive suspicions be trusted, and what is he willing to do to prove his identity? Watch the trailer

Just a Song – (Director-Screenwriter: Holden Scott; Producers: Holden Scott, Samantha Gangal; drama, film short; 7 min. 8 sec.; 2017; US; English) Three orphaned East Coast kids, Emma, Gabe, and Hannah, adjust to life in their new home on the West Coast.
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​BabyFat – (Director-Screenwriter: Miranda Zampogna; Producers: Miranda Zampogna and Jenna Lam; comedy, satire, student film, film short; 7 min. 3 sec.; 2018; US; English) When a has-been pageant princess visits a salon and witnesses the attention showered onto a young mother, she decides to regain her shine by having a baby of her own with a stranger she picks up at a local playground.