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College Television Awards

The Future of TV is Now

The College Television Awards is a nationwide competition recognizing excellence
in college student produced video, digital and film production

Successful television professionals spanning four decades
have been College Television Award winners.

Jorge Gutierrez, Emmy winning creator of El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
Carola Mamberto, whose CTA winning documentary was acquired by Frontline.
Shane Acker, whose CTA winning animated short 9 was recently released as a full length feature produced by Tim Burton.
Yule Caise, whose work on a series of Heroes webisodes won a Primetime Emmy for interactive fiction for NBC.com.

The application period for the 2010 College Television Awards is now closed. Winners will be posted after the Gala on April 10, 2010.


Rules and guidelines have been updated

"Beyond the glamour of the awards ceremony, the CTAs proved far more substantive than any other student-level competition or festival. . . in a setting that legitimized their talent…The experience was unforgettable.”

Gab Taraboulsy
Winner Best Commercial
30th College Television Awards

Recognition

  Awards

  • 1st Place $2,000

  • 2nd Place $1,000

  • 3rd Place $500

  Selected winners will be:

  • Invited to pitch their piece to a development executive

  • Matched with an industry mentor

  • Provided with film stock from Kodak Entertainment Imaging

  • Provided with educational software from Entertainment Partners

  Special Honors

  • The Loreen Arbus Focus on Disability Scholarship New This Year!
    $10,000
    This award will be given to a writer, producer or director who is disabled, to a producer whose piece focuses on people disabilities, or to a piece that features a person with a disability as one of the main characters.

  • Seymour Bricker Family Humanitarian Award
    $4,000
    The winner of this award will be selected from any of the first and second place winning pieces in any category that best represents a humanitarian concern.

  • Directing Award
    $1,000
    The winner of this award will be selected from a first or second place comedy, drama, documentary, or narrative series.

Subject to proper clearances, winning pieces will be featured on mtvU.com

Download the official winners list and gala program book of the 30th College Television Awards:

30th CTA Winners [PDF]
30th CTA Gala Program [PDF]


Online Submission
&
Judging Partner

For the companies that generously supported the 30th College Television Awards Click Here

Please direct all CTA sponsorship/partner inquiries to slavkin@emmys.org