Awards

• Honorable Mention, Sundance Film Festival

• Best Narrative Short, Atlanta Film Festival

• Best Live Action Short, Santa Barbara Film Festival

• Audience Award, Best Short Film, Ashland Independent Film Festival

• Best Student Short, Woodstock Film Festival

• Best Comedy Short, Worldwide Short Film Festival

• Audience Award: Best Student Short, Austin Film Festival

• BAFTA/LA Certificate of Excellence

• Best Narrative Short, Oxford Film Festival

• NYU Wasserman/King 2nd Prize Winner

• Best Film, Miami Short Film Festival

• Best Student Short, NYC Shorts

• Best Student Short, San Joaquin Film Festival

• Audience Award Prize, DGA Screening, Los Angeles

• Best Narrative Short, Hollyshorts Film Festival

• Best Student Short, Las Vegas Film Festival

• Finalist, NBC Comedy Short Cuts

• Richard Vague Production Award

• Riese Post-Production Award

• MTV Production Award

• House Production Casting Fellowship

• NYU Craft Award in Screenwriting

• NYU Craft Award in Sound Recording

• Sloane Science Writing Finalist

• National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Award Finalist

About

Aquarium is a 15-minute short film written by Rob Meyer for his NYU Graduate Film School thesis. It follows the story of David, a 15-year-old kid who escapes the boredom of the Boston suburbs to the exotic world of breeding aquarium fish. He and two buddies make their way to a long-awaited meeting of the Boston Aquarium Society.

Aquarium was filmed in Newton, Massachusetts during the last two weeks of August, 2006. It was shot on 35mm film by an all-star crew of NYU graduate students.