STUDENTS WIN MOVIE FESTIVAL AWARDS

Cincinnati State students won three of the seven awards presented at the Third Annual College Movie Festival at the Carnegie Center in Covington, KY.  During the past three years, Cincinnati State student teams have won more awards than any other participating school.

This year, Cincinnati State teams won “Audience Choice” and “Audience Choice Runner-up” awards, determined by a vote of those attending the festival.  A Cincinnati State team also won the award for “Best Use of Required Elements,” determined by the professionals who judged the movie competition.

Fifteen teams of students representing eight area colleges and universities competed in the festival this year.

Dave Killen, program chair for Audio/Video Production and a co-founder of the Festival, said Cincinnati State entered five student teams in the festival, more than any other college or university.

Other participating schools were The Art Institute of Cincinnati, Brown Mackie College, Northern Kentucky University, the Ohio Center for Broadcasting, the University of Cincinnati, Western Kentucky University, and Xavier University.

Cincinnati State had the only team that produced an animated movie. This team included all of the students enrolled in the Maya animation class taught this term by Jason Caudill, Graphic Design program chair. This was the second year in a row that Cincinnati State students produced an animated movie for the festival.

The festival was hosted by Margaret McGurk of The Cincinnati Enquirer, with Special Guest Speaker Kristen Erwin of the Greater Cincinnati Film Commission.  During the festival, each student team participated in workshops with industry professionals to receive feedback on their movies.

Students had five days to plan and write their movies, and five days to shoot and complete post-production.

Each team was randomly assigned a movie genre, such as action/adventure, thriller, or romance and each film had to include four required elements given to the students at the beginning of production.