Calvin to Host 25-Hour Film Festival

April 25, 2006 == MEDIA ADVISORY

The Calvin Video Network (CVN) and Film Arts Committee are teaming up to sponsor a 25-hour film festival during academic advising, April 25*26.

"We did 44-hour festivals in the fall and spring of last year, and people talked about how long it took to make the films," explains junior Jordan Horras, a communications major and a CVN co-chair, about the timeframe of the event. "And there's another 24-hour film festival going on, so we wanted to differentiate" he adds.

The two student organizations, with help from Calvin's communication arts and sciences (CAS) department, will give student filmmakers the hours between 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 25 through 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 26 to shoot and edit a short film. The festival commences in the basement of Commons Annex and concludes with an 8:30 p.m. screening and award ceremony in the Bytwerk Video Theatre.

The films will be judged by faculty of the CAS department and student filmmakers. The first-place film will receive $200.

Horras has been impressed by the quality and variety of entries at previous festivals. And he says the festival serves a couple of purposes for Calvin filmmakers.

"The biggest idea is to have fun," he says. "It's also about building community * getting together and showing our work and making a little contest out of it."

For the full story see http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2005_06/cvn_film_festival.htm

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Received on Tue Apr 25 10:20:03 2006