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Take 1 Student Film Festival screened in front of a full house in FIlm Row Cinema on Wednesday, April 2. The winners are: Jury Award, Production I Get Well, Prince by Jackie Merlau Audience Award, Production I Bird by Mitchell Wenkus Jury Award, Production II The Trip Fairy by Steve McClean Audience Award, Production II To the Spectrum by Grant Giliano 2008 written image finalists Finalists in Feature Length Alumni Category: “Wild Takes” by Cory Lanham; “Fat Chance” by Susan Hubbard; “Arcade ’82!” by Jon Knitter; "Little Domino” by Jose Jaime Finalists in Feature Length Student Category: “Cirque” by Nathan Stevens; “Legadon’s Last Hero” by Ian Gray Parry; “American Side Show” Mark Anzelc Finalists in Short Length Student Category: “The Krispy Kreme Kontingency” by Josh Aderhold; “Decisions” by Rachel Deans; “Bound” by Meagan Wood The Awards Ceremony will be held Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor Ceremony will begin at 7pm. Reception will follow immediately after. The finalists will pitch their scripts to the audience in 3minutes or less and the audience will vote on which pitch they thought was the best. The winner of the “best pitch” contest will receive $500.00! Big Screen XII Thursday april 24 2008 at 7 pm Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor* Admission is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30! Winning films (in alphabetical order) include: A Death in Progress - Rachel Stratman, Producer Gum & Get It - Animation Production Studio II class House of Cards - David Priego, Director The Janitors Closet - Annamarie Christofanelli, Producer Lady's Night - Yuting Hsueh, Director Positive Type - Eric Stolze, Director Subject - Westley Gathright, Producer Awards, cash prizes and GREAT films. Join the Film & Video Department in celebrating these up and coming filmmakers! Around Town the ascension of carolotta by will dunne April 4-May4, 2008 at 16th Street Theater F&V faculty member, Vaun Monroe is Assistant Director. Details at: www.16thstreettheater.org/seasonOne/carlotta.html Congratulations Check out Redmoon Theater's associate artistic director, puppeteer extraordinaire and F&V adjunct faculty member Frank Maugeri's staging of Boneyard Prayer at Redmoon Central through May 11. View the Chicago Sun Times Weekend/On Stage article at: www.suntimes.com/entertainment/weiss/864953,WKP-News-Stage28.article F&V Critical Studies students Sara Freeman, Matt Fagerholm and Sawyer Lahr presented papers at the second annual Midwest Undergraduate Film Festival at the University of Notre Dame on April 11 and 12. Details at: ftt.nd.edu/news-events/ MFA students Sivan Gur-Arieh and Crystal Holt--Sivan's thesis film Baby Let's Play House won best film and Crystal's directing III film Birthday won best actor at the SunDeis Film Festival at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. MFA alum and F&V adjunct faculty member, Jeffrey Jon Smith's film The Miracle has been accepted at five (5) new festivals: European Spiritual Film Festival, France, March-April 2008; West Chester Film Festival, Pennsylvania, April 2008; Big Island Film Festival, Waikoloa, Hawaii, May 2008; ReelHeART International Film Festival, Toronto, June 2008; International Film Festival South Africa, October 2008. European Spritual screens for festival members only online in March and April, and award winners are screened in Paris in April. The Miracle is a finalist. At West Chester, The Miracle is one of three finalists for Best Comedy. And, The Miracle was first runner up in the Lake Michigan Shorts category at the East Lansing Film Festival. MFA student Randy Caspersen's Production II film Dolls continues its festival run: 18th Annual Melbourne Queer Festival, March 7 & 9; 22nd Annual London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, March 29 & April 7; Film Out San Diego, April 17; Open APPerature Film Festival (North Carolina), April; 10th Annual Fairytales International Film Festival (Calgary, CANADA) May/June 10th; San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, June. Congratulations to the students who have been selected for the Columbia College Chicago Program at theCannes International Film Festival May 14-25, 2008! Critical Studies: Jonathan Mendenhall and Ben Elliott; Screenwriting: C. J. Arellano, Kelly-Michelle Mason, Cameron Schuster, Samna Awan, T. J. Peters; Filmmakers: Chris Davis' Marshall's Field of Dreams, Kameishia Wooten's Southern Cross, Nick Martin's Greener Pastures, Sean Jourdan's The Beekeeper, Jennifer Nelson's and Neko Pilarcik's Three Artists. MFA alum Danielle Corches' thesis film Whirlybird is in the following film festivals/competitions: Reel Women Int Film Festival, CA, 4 Annual from March 08, 2008 to March 12, 2008; Boston Underground Film Festival 10 Annual from March 20, 2008 to March 23, 2008; Da Vinci Film Festival 9 Annual from April 18, 2008 to April 20, 2008; Accolade Competition, CA - Honorable Mention MFA student and adjunct faulty member Sean Jourdan's "An Open Door", which was previously awarded a CINE Golden Eagle Award, has continued on into the next round of the competition with a Special JuryAward as the best film in the student drama category (one of three student categories) for 2007. It is now in contention for the CINE Award of Excellence for best student film of 2007 with the winner to be determined at the April 24th award ceremony in Washington, D.C.
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