WINNER OF THE 2011 BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD AT THE YOUNGCUTS FILM FESTIVAL 
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ABOUT THE AWARD
Every year, the YoungCuts Film Festival staff review the work of more than 5, 000 filmmakers and watch more than 1, 000 films to pick our Top 100. From our Top 100, we pick our list of Top 10 films to honour with an award.


2011 BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD WINNER
Oasis HD Award for Best Documentary: Finding Fathers by France Costrel (USA/France)

WINNER OF THE 2011 EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD AT THE CHAGRIN FILM FESTIVAL
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2011 EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD WINNER
Finding Fathers, Directed by France Costrel (40 minutes)

WINNER OF THE 2011 EDWIN DIAMOND AWARD
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ABOUT THE AWARD
The Edwin Diamond Award is given to the best graduate and undergraduate journalism student each year at New York University. The faculty looks in particular for young journalists who show some of the energy, enthusiasm, skill and devotion to the craft of journalism as our late colleague, the pioneering journalist and media critic Edwin Diamond. Diamond Award winners have gone on to important careers in journalism -- at news organizations including the New York Times and the New Yorker. While the Diamond Award comes at the end of the students' studies, the gift it includes has helped many of them through the difficult months of searching for a job after graduation. The Edwin Diamond Award -- funded through the Diamond family -- is the highest award given by the Carter Journalism Institute at NYU. 

2011 BEST GRADUATE WINNER
France Costrel. A masters student in our News and Documentary program. 
From Prof. Marcia Rock: "[She] did a strong and insightful documentary about how her hometown in Normandy, France, cares for the children of WWII soldiers who lost their lives on Day. France also was executive producer of our election special this year and showed exceptional leadership. She is the kind of journalist we need in this world."