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Pop Foul was written by co-director Moon Molson.
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On June 10, voters from the Motion Picture Academy awarded top prizes in narrative film to two School of the Arts films. El Viaje (One Day Trip), directed by Cady Abarca and Pop Foul, directed by Moon Molson and Jennifer Handorf, won silver and bronze, respectively.
Student filmmakers from Columbia have won medals nine out of the last 10 years.
El Viaje is a drama about two boys who take a life-changing trip through New York City. Pop Foul follows an inner-city boy who witnesses his father being brutally attacked and must decide whether to help cover up the incident.
When El Viaje and Pop Foul, along with Good Girl by Kang heayun, swept the academy’s eastern regional finals in April, Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger lauded the results as an example of the superb training offered by SoA’s film division: "For these talented Columbia students, this is obviously a great personal accomplishment and we congratulate them. On a broader level, it speaks to the enormous quality and creativity of the young people who attend Columbia's School of the Arts, the training they receive from a dedicated faculty and staff led this year by Acting Dean Dan Kleinman, and also to the importance we place on making the arts central in the life of a great university whose home is a world capital for arts and culture."
The awards ceremony at Samuel Goldwyn Theater capped off a week of industry-related activities, meetings and social events.
Past winners of the awards who have gone on to critical and commercial success include Spike Lee, Trey Parker and Oscar winners John Lasseter and Robert Zemekis.
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