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Scott Burkhardt: Humanitas Prize

caption: Scott BurkhardtScott Burkhardt, a screenwriting professor in the department of English, won the Humanitas Prize in the best short film category for Girls Are Strong Here. The short film also won the 2021 Grand Jury Prize at the 2021 Independent Film Festival Boston, and the script won a production grant from the Sun Valley Film Festival.

Hosted by comedian Larry Wilmore, the 46th annual Humanitas Prize event presented awards and $10,000 cash prizes to screenwriters across ten categories. 

Mr. Burkhardt is a graduate of Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where he received an MFA in film. He was a dean’s scholar at Columbia and received support for his work from New Line Cinema, the Milos Forman Foundation, the Caucus Foundation, and the Carole and Robert Daly Foundation. His thesis film, The Assastant, won multiple awards at the Columbia University Film Festival and went on to be nominated for a Student Academy Award. The film aired on PBS and Hulu for five years. 

Mr. Burkhardt has written for television (NBC’s Smash) and developed projects for NBC Universal, CBS Studios, and Flower Films. He is currently working on various writing projects and will be directing his first feature film this year.

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