Sam Kauffmann wins CINE Golden Eagle Award

For Immediate Release

December 7, 2010

Boston, MA: Boston University Professor Sam Kauffmann has won the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award in the Independent category for Kids Living with Slim, a film he produced and directed. The CINE Golden Eagle Awards are given for excellence in professional, independent and student filmmaking and are recognized internationally as symbols of the highest standards in film and television production.

Since its founding in 1957, CINE has been dedicated to honoring emerging and established talent in film, television and new media. Sam Kauffmann now joins a remarkable list of CINE Golden Eagle Award-winning filmmakers, including such noted directors as Steven Spielberg, Albert Maysles, Mel Brooks, Ron Howard, Mike Nichols, Robert Zemeckis, and many others.

Kids Living with Slim begins in 2004, when seven African children, ranging in age from 6 to 17, talk openly about what it’s like to be HIV positive. Five years later Sam returns to Africa to try to find those seven children and document the changes in their lives.

In 2009, Mr. Kauffmann received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Film and made Kids Living with Slim as part of his Fellowship work.