Essay Contest Winners 2023 Essay Contest Winners First Place: "Ida Lupino" by Mirenne PerryRunner Up: "Matilda Landeta" by Chanelle French Read the Winning Essays Bitter Rice, neither Neorealism nor Noir The 2022 Film Essay Prize winner by Brian Berry brought to life in a short film by PSU alum Jesselynn Amerling. Persepolis: Rewriting the Transnational Woman's Body in "Herstory" An essay by PSU film student Eden Radfarr, brought to life in a short film by PSU Film alum David Jordan, motion design by Josh Luna. An Aesthetic of Failure: Romanian Cinema in the Wake of the Revolution An essay by PSU film student Anna Weltner, brought to life in a short film by PSU Film alum David Jordan, motion design by Josh Luna. Polanski's Apartment Trilogy: Perceptual Crisis, Identity, and the Rented Flat An essay by PSU film student Jubel Brosseau, brought to life in a short film by PSU Film alum David Jordan, motion design by Josh Luna.