AIA Film Challenge 2019
The fifth annual AIA Film Challenge highlights the ways architects have collaborated with civic leaders to build resilient and sustainable communities. Participants produced three- to five-minute documentary films for a chance to win up to $10,000. Vote for your favorite Blueprint for Better story.
2019 Winners
Grand Prize: The EastPoint Project
by Hana Waugh
Runner Up: A Place of Second Chances
by HMC Architects
Third Place: A Building Shaped by Light: Austin Central Library
by Johnny McAllister and Annie Silverstein
People’s Choice: Learning Organisms, Floral Collectives
by Meriem Sakrouhi and Mario SerranoPrizes
A panel of judges will select the Grand Prize, Runner Up, and Third Place winners.
There’s also a People’s Choice Award. Win both the Grand Prize and the People’s Choice Award for a total of $10,000.
Grand Prize
$5,000 Cash
Film screening & reception at Chicago Ideas
Hotel & travel for two to Chicago
Film promotion through AIA channels
Official awards badge (digital)
People’s Choice
$5,000 Cash
Film screening & reception at Chicago Ideas
Hotel & travel for two to Chicago
Film promotion through AIA channels
Official awards badge (digital)
Runner Up
$500 Cash
Film screening at Chicago Ideas
Film promotion through AIA channels
Official awards badge (digital)
Third Place
$500 Cash
Film screening at Chicago Ideas
Film promotion through AIA channels
Official awards badge (digital)
Finalists
$500 Cash
Film promotion through AIA channels
Official awards badge (digital)
International Finalist
$500 Cash
Film promotion through AIA channels
Official awards badge (digital)
Judges
Karen Braitmayer, FAIA
Karen Braitmayer, FAIA is the founder and managing principal of Studio Pacifica an accessibility consulting firm in Seattle.
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Ian Harris
Ian Harris is an award-winning architectural filmmaker, media producer, and adjunct professor at Portland State University School of Architecture.
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Joseph Kosinski
Joseph Kosinski is currently directing Top Gun: Maverick, his fourth feature film, due out in June 2020.
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Wanda Lau
Wanda Lau is an award-winning editor and writer who oversees tech, practice, and product coverage at ARCHITECT magazine.
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Jimmie Tucker, FAIA
Jimmie Tucker FAIA, LEED AP, is a co-founder of Memphis based Self + Tucker Architects. Jimmie is also an adjunct professor at the University of Memphis.
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