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Wittenberg participates in Campus MovieFest
Wittenberg University’s Union Board, Student Senate and the Office of Student Activities will host the second Campus MovieFest Oct. 27-Nov. 5.
Campus MovieFest is the world’s largest student film festival in which participants produce five-minute movies during a multi-day campus event that provides all necessary equipment, film editing software, training and music.
Since 2000, more than 100,000 students around the world have taken advantage of the event to created short movies to be seen on the big screen.
Between Oct. 27 and Nov. 2, teams of Wittenberg students will film their movies and participate in workshops to receive technical expertise in the art of movie-making. The teams, ranging in size from two to 10 people each, will create movies to be entered into a judged competition. Apple provides laptops and camcorders, available through a sponsorship by the company.
A judging panel of eight students and two faculty members will select the winners in the various categories, and the top 16 films will be premiered at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, on a big screen on the stage in Pam Evans Smith Arena in the HPER Center.
Wittenberg is one of just two Ohio universities hosting Campus MovieFest during the 2009-10 school year.
Assistant Dean for Student Activities Mark DeVilbiss said equipment will be available to accommodate as many as 50 student teams. He credits Casey Stevens, program director for fraternity/sorority life, with bringing the program to Wittenberg. She saw how popular Campus MovieFest was at the University of Tampa, where she worked previously.
Category winners will receive prizes, including iPods, and the top Wittenberg student teams will have their films entered into a regional competition with the best productions from other participating schools. Regional winners go on to a national competition, where they will compete for major prizes, including internships at the popular annual Cannes Film Festival. Winning films are also shown as in-flight entertainment on Virgin Airlines.
Student teams have from now until Oct. 27 to sign up online. On the Web: www.campusmoviefest.com
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