AFI Conservatory Alums Dominate the 36th College Television Awards

The 36th College Television Awards, hosted by the Television Academy Foundation, were held on April 23 in Los Angeles. The College Television Awards are a celebration of student video and digital filmmaking and can perhaps be best described as the Emmys of student-produced content. AFI Conservatory alumni Melissa Hoppe, Henry Hughes, Michael Steiner and Trevor Worley were the big winners of the ceremony. 

Hoppe produced “Stealth,” a tale of a transgender tween, which won the award for Best Children’s Program. She also won the Seymour Bricker Humanitarian Scholarship to honor the film that best takes a humanitarian stance.

Director Henry Hughes and producer Michael Steiner won the Directing and Drama Awards, respectively, for “Day One,” a show about an Army interpreter who has to deliver the child of an enemy bomb maker. Producer Trevor Worley won the first place Comedy Award for “Martian American” about a martian trying to make it on his own in Los Angeles while facing culture shock.