On the night of the 19th of October, the winners of this years SAE Alumni Awards and SAE Students Awards have been announced and honoured for their exceptional and outstanding projects in creative media. At the twelveth award gala, held at the E-Werk in Cologne, the winners were celebrated for their extraordinary achievements, creativity and professionalism. The award ceremony was hosted by Mehdi Benkirane.
The SAE Alumni Awards for best film, audio, music, animation, game and online production were awarded to SAE alumni from SAE campuses in Hamburg, Berlin, Mexico, Cologne and Munich. The Student Awards were awarded to students from SAE Institute Cologne, Vienna, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Munich.
A jury of international experts from different European SAE Institute locations found the winners from more than 200 projects. Timo Kraemer, Awards Manager: “The submitted projects from our students and alumni from all around the world were all on a high level. It hasn’t been easy for the jury to make a decision.“
Scott Jones, CEO, SAE Global, spoke in high terms of the extraordinary creativity and high professionalism of the entries and congratulated the SAE Alumni and SAE Students Award winners.
“The award show is a unique and fantastic way to honor and celebrate the outstanding work by our students and alumni. It was amazing, how many great projects have been submitted again this year“ commented Peter ‘Pan’ Pulfer, organiser of the SAE Alumni Convention.
Numerous SAE Institute students, alumni, staff and guests from the creative industries, celebrated at the award gala and the legendary aftershow party with live music and a DJ until the early hours.
Winner SAE Alumni Awards:
- Category Music: Roman Lüth, Hamburg
- Category Audio: Christian Gubalke, Berlin
- Category Film: Adrian Pallares, Mexico
- Category Animation: Manuel Ortiz Hunger, Mexico
- Category Game: Alexander Weiß, Cologne
- Category Online: Khadim Fall, Munich
- Roman Lüth, Björn Mohr (Manager SAE Hamburg)
- Peter Duhr (Manager SAE Berlin), Boris Kummerer (Alumni Chapter President Berlin). Boris took the award on behalf of the winner, who unfortunately couldn’t be at the gala
- Francisco Amaya (Manager SAE Mexico), Adrian Pallares
- Francisco Amaya (Manager SAE Mexico), Manuel Ortiz Hunger
- Andreas Hauber (Game Art Head Instructor, Cologne), Alexander Weiß
- Khadim Fall, Rainer Schwarz (Manager SAE Munich)
Winner SAE Students Awards:
- Category Audio: Mauricio Duda, Vienna
- Category Music Business: Gonzalo Gravano-Mallwitz, Stuttgart
- Category Cross Media: Anika Stadel, Cologne
- Category Web: Michael Dorn, Vienna
- Category Film & TV: Andrea Leichtfried & Simon Spädtke, Munich
- Category Animation: Lukas Wenzel, Frankfurt
- Category Game: Viktor Hildebrandt, Munich
- Christian Ruff (Manager SAE Vienna), Mauricio Duda
- Winner Gonzalo Gravano-Mallwitz and fellow student Nicolas Aunouviet Schwerdtfeger
- Pierre Degardin (Manager SAE Cologne), Anika Stadel
- Christian Ruff (Manager SAE Vienna), Michael Dorn
- Andrea Leichtfried, Rainer Schwarz (Manager SAE Munich)
- Markus Gran (Manager SAE Frankfurt), Lukas Wenzel
- Rainer Schwarz (Manager SAE Munich), Viktor Hildebrandt
Read more about the XIII. SAE Alumni Convention here
photos: Armin Zedler, Giulio Giani
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