Two NYU Grads Nominated for 41st College Television Awards

Two New York University graduates have been nominated for the Television Academy Foundation’s 41st College Television Awards. The College Television Awards recognizes and rewards excellence in student-produced programs from colleges and universities nationwide. Winners in the competition will be announced by television stars at the College Television Awards ceremony on March 26, 2022.

Bohao Liu and Fiqah Rahman, both 2021 graduates of NYU, are nominated in the ‘Nonfiction or Reality’ series category.

Liu for producing, writing, and directing “Eagles Rest in Liangshan” and Rahman for producing, writing, and directing “Finding Freedom”.

Liu’s “Eagles Rest in Liangshan” is about the popularity of basketball within the Yi minority in Liangshan, China. It’s so popular that the center of town is not a park but a basketball court. The program follows a young Yi man who is inspired by the Kobe Bryant Mamba mentality and returns to his city to coach kids’ basketball.

Rahman’s “Finding Freedom” is her personal account of being a Muslim woman of color from Brunei who joins the Black Lives Matter protests in New York City. Witnessing events as they unfold during the protests, she begins to question the meaning of freedom and her traumatic childhood memories growing up in Brunei begin to resurface.

A total of 54 students have been nominated in 6 categories for the 2022 awards selected from 185 entries submitted from 58 colleges nationwide.

Designed to emulate the Emmy Awards, student entries are judged by Television Academy members; three projects are nominated in each category. Criteria for the College Television Awards reflect industry standards of excellence, imagination, and innovation.

The awards ceremony will be held in conjunction with the Foundation’s College Television Summit, a three-day, educational event featuring panel discussions with media-industry leaders. The Summit is available virtually and free of charge to college media arts students across the country. The 2022 College Television Awards ceremony and the Summit will be held March 24-26.

Nominees and winners of the 41st College Television Awards automatically become members of the Television Academy Foundation's alumni family, gaining access to year-round networking opportunities, events, and professional development resources. Prominent College Television Awards alumni include CNN national correspondent Natasha Chen , Escape at Dannemora executive producer Brett Johnson; Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan director Patricia Riggen; Maya and the Three executive producer Jorge Gutierrez; Lovecraft Country visualization artist Prasad Narse; and Love, Victor executive producer Jason Ensler .