Randall Dottin has won several awards including: exhibited by HBO for 2-years (2003), The DGA Award (Best African-American Student Filmmaker), and Gold Medal winner at the 2004 Student Academy Awards (Best Narrative Film). His short film Lifted was sponsored by Fox Searchlight’s emerging directors program and earned many honors including Best Short and Best Overall Film at the 2008 Texas Black Film Festival. Other honors include being named by INDIEWIRE as one of the Ten Exciting New Voices in Black Cinema (March 2009). He earned a Bachelors’ degree at Dartmouth and a MFA degree with honors at Columbia University’s Film Division.
Randall Dottin was awarded a Production grant at Columbia in 2004 for Indelible