2008 Woodie Awards
Campus Movie Fest
Julio Carrion
Issue date: 12/10/07 Section: News
Lights, Camera and Action! Time to take out your cameras, brush up on some monologues, call that oh so gullible friend and make him a stuntman for the CMF's are around the corner!
For those new to the concept a brief explanation should be adequate. Campus MovieFest is considered the world's largest student film festival where college students across the globe can submit their own films to compete in one of the largest media groups around. Starting in January students will be able to receive digital camcorders, Apple laptops, and AT&T cellphones free of charge to help equip them to make their own short movies and fi lms. No experience necessary as there will be technical assistance available to help in the process.
Again this is not just for people aspiring to become the next Steven Spielberg or Peter Jackson but it is open to anyone willing to participate in the competition.
The main guidelines are that the submissions must be five minutes or less and created during Campus MovieFest week and more details will become available as they come.
So if you are really interested in the competition you have all of Christmas break to put together a story and screen play to prepare for that filmmaking week.
Starting in January CMF staff and volunteers will start promotion of the event campus wide that will include the many different categories and genres available and the many awards and prizes for the top scoring films.
Categories include best picture, best comedy, best screen play and so on (basically
the major categories we see in all major awards shows) and special contests like TBS's Very Funny Film award (think the TBS commercials) and TCM Classic Short film Award (for the best re-imagination of a classic scene in movie history) Prizes can include iPods, prize packs from TCM or TBS, Zifty. com gift certificates, year memberships to Blockbuster Total Access, and much more, including a moment in the spotlight for you and your film and really
For those new to the concept a brief explanation should be adequate. Campus MovieFest is considered the world's largest student film festival where college students across the globe can submit their own films to compete in one of the largest media groups around. Starting in January students will be able to receive digital camcorders, Apple laptops, and AT&T cellphones free of charge to help equip them to make their own short movies and fi lms. No experience necessary as there will be technical assistance available to help in the process.
Again this is not just for people aspiring to become the next Steven Spielberg or Peter Jackson but it is open to anyone willing to participate in the competition.
The main guidelines are that the submissions must be five minutes or less and created during Campus MovieFest week and more details will become available as they come.
So if you are really interested in the competition you have all of Christmas break to put together a story and screen play to prepare for that filmmaking week.
Starting in January CMF staff and volunteers will start promotion of the event campus wide that will include the many different categories and genres available and the many awards and prizes for the top scoring films.
Categories include best picture, best comedy, best screen play and so on (basically
the major categories we see in all major awards shows) and special contests like TBS's Very Funny Film award (think the TBS commercials) and TCM Classic Short film Award (for the best re-imagination of a classic scene in movie history) Prizes can include iPods, prize packs from TCM or TBS, Zifty. com gift certificates, year memberships to Blockbuster Total Access, and much more, including a moment in the spotlight for you and your film and really
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