Deadline Approaching: Graduate Student Essay Prize of the DEFA Film Library

Please apply by August 15th!

Eligibility: US or international graduate students, including recent graduates (since January 1, 2021).

This annual prize, created in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the DEFA Film Studios in 2021, is awarded for the best graduate student paper on East German cinema. The prize is accompanied by a cash award of $500 from the Founder’s Fund for Student Researchers, which was established in honor of the DEFA Film Library’s founding director, UMass Professor Emeritus Barton Byg, to help support research into East German cinema. 

The prize is accompanied by a $500 cash award. The competition is open to US and international graduate students, including recent graduates (since Jan. 1, 2021). The current deadline for submissions is August 15, 2022. 

For more information, please go to: DFL Graduate Student Essay Prize.