| 32nd MAINE STUDENT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
PO Box 24 Norway, ME 04268 , Phone 207/393-7347 PRESS RELEASE FOR
The Public Screening and Awards Presentation of the 32nd Maine Student Film and Video Festival will be held Saturday, July 18th, 2009, 12:30PM at the Waterville Opera House, Waterville, ME. The screening is free and open to the public. The screening of finalist and winning movies is held in conjunction with the 12th Maine International Film Festival. The Festival screening will be followed by a reception for the moviemakers. MSFVF is open to Maine residents 19 years of age and younger. This year there were 30 movies entered from 15 schools and students working independently representing the work of over 100 students in grades K-12 from all parts of Maine. The movies submitted to the Festival are judged on the basis of originality, content, style, and technique. Movies are reviewed by categories: Pre-Teen Division, grades K -6; Junior Division, grades 7 -8; and Senior Division, grades 9 -12. This years grand prize winner is Recall by Jasper Lowe and Rippy Swan. This is a story about a teenage boy who sustains a head injury that results in memory loss. The teenage boy discovers the cause of this injury through a series of clues culminating in a surprise ending. Rippy and Jasper made this movie independently of the school or any other program. They used their own equipment and had family and friends act in the film. Dylan Howard, of Hancock County Technical Center was awarded this years Huey Student Award. This award is given to a student who has been selected for the Festival in multiple years and is a graduating senior. On Saturday Howards documentaries, Culinary Arts and Jakes Plea made with Nathan Tracy will be shown. Howard will also be receiving the $2,500 scholarship donated by Maine Media Workshops, Rockport. The judges selected four other entries in the Senior Division as winners and 7 entries as finalists. The movies range from a heavy metal band member getting his heart broke, to a documentary about what it was like to be on a B-52 gunner during WWII. The Junior division features 2 winners, Happily Ever After and Agents 22 and 3/4, both made by students from New England Film Academy Summer Camp. The 32nd Maine Student Film and Video Festival judges are: The MSFVFs director is Tim Ouillette, a film and video teacher from Western Maine. This is Tims first year as the director of the Festival. Tim has been teaching video and film for the past 7 years and hopes to follow the path of his predecessor in regards to fostering the youth of Maine in cinema. The Maine Student Film and Video Festival is sponsored by the Maine Alliance of Media Arts. Prizes are donated by,Maine Media Workshops, Benchmark Multimedia, and Railroad Square Cinema. MSFVF funding is provided by Films by Huey. A list of finalists and winners of the 32nd Maine Student Film and Video Festival is below
For more information and to set up interviews with students contact: 32nd Annual Maine Student Film & Video Festival Pre-Teen Division (Grades K 6) Junior Division (Grades 7 & 8) Happily Ever After, 7:00 Senior Division (Grades 9 -12) The Continuing Adventures of Electric Overload, 17:00 (exerpt) Hoyt Clark: A B-29 Gunner 12:15 (exerpt) Withdrawls of Shuteye 16:27(excerpt) Education through the years 11:00 (excerpt) Execution 16:12 (exerpt) Run, 3:00 Winners
Untitlted, 5:00 The invisible People, 13:46 Keep Looking, 2:19 Jakes Plea, 13:00 Trek Wars, 6:00 Huey Student Award Grand Prize Winner |
