The Eisner Prize is the highest award for creativity given on the UC Berkeley campus. This year's winners in film and video are Michelle Dizon for My Child (Anak) (2001, 27 mins), which juxtaposes interviews with a group of children in the Philippines with the filmmaker as a two-year-old learning to speak; and Esther N. S. Galbraith, Alexis Petru, and Elana Fiske for .comm.unity (21 mins), which navigates craigslist in an original way. This year's judges were Marilyn Fabe, Kathy Geritz, Mira Kopell, and Gavriel Moses, all members of the Film Studies faculty, and Miryam Sas from East Asian Languages and Comparative Literature.

The judges have selected a diverse sampling of animation, narrative, documentary, and experimental videos to be screened in addition to the prize-winning works: Attack (Sohail Afiat, 5 mins); Everybody Dance Now (Jonathan Amerikaner, 3 mins); Everyday the World Is a Playground (Kathy Minh Bach, Bruce Cheung, 3 mins); White Suburbia (Drew Spicer, Heath Gibson, 1 min); Halmuhnee (Antony Joo, 6 mins); A Perfect Love (Ryan Landes, 2 mins); Art Gallery (Stanley Lin, Tracy Espeleta, 3 mins); The Perfectionist (Paul Wie, 11 mins). Uproot | Root Down by Wun Yip and Sarah Pauly, Tested by Michael Wilkerson, and When the Storm Came by Shilpi Gupta also received honorable mention from the judges, but will not be screened.

A program containing written descriptions by the artists will complement the screening.