Prizes and Awards

Where Talent Takes Shape

RUFA is a place of research, experimentation, and creative innovation. Within its classrooms and labs, projects come to life, leaving a lasting mark on the contemporary scene: works awarded by international juries, ideas born from collaboration and teamwork, recognized and appreciated worldwide.

The awards and recognitions earned by our community of students and faculty are the result of continuous dedication, in an environment that nurtures talent and enhances it through stimulating and interdisciplinary learning experiences. Every achievement is a source of pride and reaffirms the quality of the path we offer.

Below is a selection of awards and recognitions that highlight RUFA’s excellence across various disciplines.

A is for Alice

Cinema

A is for Alice

“A is for Alice” is the first dystopian film by former Film student Sharon Grace Badia.   Sharon Grace Badia, a young up-and-coming filmmaker and former RUFA student, makes her debut with a SciFi film almost two hours long, entirely shot in Abruzzo, more precisely in the impervious area of Castrovalva. The cast, almost entirely… Find out more

Announcement

RUFA and RICCI SpA: talent wins

Call for Ideas “Arte in Costruzione”: the project “I rami che raccontano” (“The branches that tell”) by student Alexandra Fongaro wins.   A scholarship that is not only an encouragement to talent, but above all a prize for artists who embody research, experimentation and innovation. It is in this context that the RUFA Space, in… Find out more

immagine sito premio rometti

Design

“Crush me if you can” finalist for the Rometti Prize

RUFA student Isabella Jahns’ project ‘Crash me if you can’ has been selected among the finalists of the historic Rometti Prize.   The finalists have finally been selected for the tenth edition of the Rometti Prize, an international competition organised by the historic Umbrian manufacturer and reserved for students from Art and Design Academies around… Find out more

quanno chiove

Cinema

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Quanno Chiove

“Quanno chiove”, a zero work by director and former RUFA student Mino Capuano, will have its world premiere on 14 July in the “Bimbi belli” festival directed by Nanni Moretti at the Nuovo Cinema Sacher in Rome.   “Quanno chiove”, a work by young director Mino Capuano, born in 1994, will be presented as the… Find out more

NON è finita qui

Cinema

Non è finita qui

Saturday 16 July will see the special screening of the short film ‘It’s not over here’, directed by Cinema student Benedetta Fontana.   The short “Non è finita qui”, made this year by RUFA student Benedetta Fontana under the supervision of lecturer Gianluca Sportelli, will be screened at the Sala Roma in Nocera Inferiore on… Find out more

MOSTRA DI LORENZO CAPPELLA - CIECO ANIMALE

Painting

Cieco animale

Congratulations to RUFA student Lorenzo Cappella for the inauguration of the double exhibition “CIECO ANIMALE”, together with artist Guido D’Angelo, on show in the KHLAB exhibition space from 11 May to 4 June 2022   The thought of animality has many faces, a multitude of gestures. Devouring the human mask, there where the gaze rises,… Find out more

Cinema

“MAMMAMARE” on air on Rai 5

On Friday, May 6, Rai 5 will air the documentary MAMMAMARE, written and directed by RUFA Cinema students Francesca Marra, Giovanni Benedetto Matteucci and Lucrezia Mariotti.   A work co-produced by RUFA as part of the Audiovisual Documentation Techniques Course held by Professor Christian Angeli, and that will be broadcast as part of the cultural… Find out more

MOSTRA PERSONALE_PRAC

Painting

Sculpture and Installations

Wang Yuxiang’s solo exhibition at PRAC

Wang Yuxiang, a RUFA student in the School of Visual Arts, opens his solo exhibition at PRAC – Center for Contemporary Art – on May 8 at 10 a.m.   PRAC Center for Contemporary Art inaugurates the new exhibition season with three solo shows curated by Graziano Menolascina: David Salle, a leading artist of the… Find out more

Set Design

The RUFA project for Skuola.net

Congratulations to the students of Scenography Flaminia Giacobello and Antonio Vulpiani for winning the Skuola.net competition The aim of the competition was to renew the physical studio for video and Web TV production of Skuola.net, the reference edTech portal for the Italian student community with over 6 million monthly visitors. It is not the first… Find out more

Photography and Audiovisual

Bring us the Bright

Congratulations to RUFA student of Photography and Audiovisual Sabrina Marchionne: her project “Bring us the Bright” has just been published on the magazine Discarded Magazine. Bring us the Bright is a research work that takes Catholic behavioral morality as a starting point to investigate how this influences the expression of everyone’s sexuality. The artist worked… Find out more

Premio Rometti 2020 - vittoria Ilayda Caylan

Design

Premio Rometti 2020, RUFA student Ilayda Caylan is the winner

Congratulations to RUFA Design student Ilayda Caylan, who has just won third place in the 2020 Rometti Prize. The project presented is People, developed as part of the Product design course of lecturer Floriana Cannatelli. The international contest was created with the aim of rewarding artists who offer an original contribution to the art of… Find out more

Cinema

To the cinema Yari Saccotelli with Amos is Zawadi.

Yari Saccotelli with “Amos is Zawadi “From the Academy classrooms to the major international film festivals and now, finally, to the cinema. “Amos is Zawadi“, the docufilm that RUFA graduate Yari Saccotelli conceived to discuss his thesis, is about to take a new leap forward. A few weeks ago, in fact, a tour began that… Find out more

Festival Palladium - Cinema

Arte cinematografica

Cinema

At the Palladium Festival, out of competition three short films by RUFA students

Alessio Bartoli with “The Box”, Luca Mazzara, Paolina Gramegna, Nicola Vazquez, Caterina Crescini, Federica Picciau and Elisa Curatola with “Il viandante” and Nicola Dondio with “Il merlo”: they are the students who will participate out of competition at the Palladium Festival. The event, born within the University Roma Tre and the Palladium Theatre, intends to… Find out more

Photography and Audiovisual

Premio REFOCUS/2, tra i vincitori due studenti della Scuola di Fotografia RUFA

The students of the School of Photography RUFA Daniele Cimaglia and Giuseppe Odore are among the winners of the REFOCUS/2 award, edited directly by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. REFOCUS/2 aimed to raise attention on the “refocusing” of reality, following the effects that confinement has had on the space-time coordinates of… Find out more

Fine Arts

Painting

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Federica Di Pietrantonio, special prize at TALENT PRIZE 2020

The Foundation “Culture and Art”, within the 2020 edition of “TALENT PRIZE”, awarded a Special Prize, as best emerging artist, to the graduate RUFA Federica Di Pietrantonio. A very important statement that gives merit to the work, first formative and then practical, profused by Federica in the particular path of experimentation undertaken so far. The… Find out more

Design

RUFA wins, once again!

Martina Calanni‘s “Eureka” project won the first prize at the 2020 edition of the international competition “Bamboo Rush”, for the design of a bamboo design object. The coveted award was obtained “for having combined the basic traits in the philosophy behind the use of bamboo: the gestures of movement, the clean lines, the essentiality of… Find out more

Cinema

The short film by Livia Oya Proto selected in Connecticut

There is no ending to the personal statements made by RUFA students who, despite the limitations imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, are continuing to build future-oriented ideas and projects in order to make the theoretical concepts learned in recent months practical. “Mutations” is the title of the short film made by the student of the… Find out more

Design

Rometti Prize, RUFA student Ilayda Caylan flies into the finals

The 2020 edition of the Rometti Prize also continues under the sign of RUFA. The project by Design student Ilayda Caylan produced as part of the Product design course of the teacher Floriana Cannatelli, presented in recent months to the selection jury, is one of the 4 finalists called to compete for the coveted award…. Find out more

Photography and Audiovisual

RUFA teacher Alessandro Carpentieri tells his story on Rai Radio 3

Seven photographers, including RUFA teacher Alessandro Carpentieri, talk to the microphones of RaiRadio 3’s Battiti program, with the aim of describing their best shot. A narrative that lasts a whole week: a daily photograph to convey to the viewer not only the instant, but also the circumstances, chance, perseverance, willpower but also the luck that… Find out more

Cinema

RUFA, the School of Cinema protagonist on Rai 5

Creativity doesn’t stop. It was a message, simple and clear, that RUFA launched forcefully during the quarantine period and which is now clearly expressed thanks to the work of many students and graduates of the Academy who have resumed to express themselves and “fly high”. As part of the program “Save the date”, broadcast on… Find out more