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SMPTE , the organization whose standards have supported a century of technological advances in entertainment technology and whose membership spans the globe, and the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA), the organization serving the professional media creation and finishing community, have announced the winners of the third annual SMPTE-HPA Student Film Festival. Held on Monday, Oct. 23, at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood, California, in conjunction with the SMPTE 2017 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition , the film festival showcased submissions demonstrating creative uses of technology in storytelling.
SMPTE and the HPA received 119 submissions from more than 30 countries, and the 17 official selections screened during SMPTE 2017 represented Germany, Hong Kong, the U.K., and the U.S. The event was hosted by Howard Lukk, SMPTE director of engineering and standards, who is also a film director, and by Aim e Ricca, SMPTE marketing and communication, who previously worked in cinema. The official selections at the festival were screened in SMPTE-DCP format, courtesy of Sundog Media Toolkit. Eight films earned awards in the following categories:
Innovative Use of Entertainment Technology to Engage the Audience in the Story - Animated Short (tie) Tom in Couchland by James Just of Ringling College of Art and Design (Sarasota, Florida, U.S.) VERGE by ChingTien Chu of School of Visual Arts (New York, New York, U.S.)Innovative Use of Entertainment Technology to Engage the Audience in the Story - Live-Action Short Mind Game by Weisi Dai of School of Visual Arts (New York, New York, U.S.)Innovative Use of Technology in an Experimental Short Jazz Orgie by Irina Rubina of Filmakademie Baden-W rttemberg (Ludwigsburg, Germany)Innovative Use of Mobile Device or Tablet to Convey a Story - Narrative Short LONDON STRIKE by Jiranant Kanjanagawin of University of Greenwich (London, U.K.)Innovative Use of Analog Technologies in a Live Action Narrative Short Home by Vivian Lau of Emerson College (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.)Documentary Short With Technology as the Subject Matter Baylor VirtuOso Documentary Short on Use of Technology in VR Music Video by Gustavo Raskowsky, Marcos Luna Hoyas, and team of Baylor University (Waco, Texas, U.S.)Audience Choice Award KCLOC by Ninaad Kulkarni of School of Visual Arts (New York, New York, U.S.)
The student filmmakers behind the winning selections received awards for their work, as well as prizes courtesy of Avid, Blackmagic Design, Other World Computing, and Sundog Media Toolkit. Filmmaker information is available at http://www.smpte2017.org/student-film.html.
The art and craft of filmmaking demands an ever-growing ease with technology that changes at lightning fast speeds. This years outstanding submissions demonstrate impressive facility with these tools in the service of the filmmakers artistic endeavors, said Seth Hallen, President of HPA. Storytelling is the goal, not the technology, and it is inspiring to see how these talented young filmmakers have marshaled the tools to tell the stories they are interested in telling. The HPA is proud to support this festival, and congratulates this group of talented filmmakers!
The jurors for this years festival featured a diverse group of accomplished professionals from around the world. They included Elisa Bonora, ACE, an editor and producer whose credits include multiple Emmy -nominated documentaries; Christina Capra, a director and producer of virtual reality (VR) content; David Creed, an award-winning short-filmmaker; Andrea Dimity, a film producer and literary manager; David Ginsberg, a postproduction technology consultant; Tim Heindl, senior vice president of research at Sony Pictures; Katie Hinsen, a digital intermediate artist and founder of the Blue Collar Post Collective (BCPC); and Niven Howie, ACE, editor of commercials, pop videos including Stings Ten Summoners Tales and XTCs Dear God, and the features Dawn of the Dead .
The jury also included Nancy Jundi, a data scientist for the entertainment, technology, and SaaS industries; Patricia Keighley, senior vice president of IMAX Corporation and co-founder and managing director of IMAX POST/DKP Inc.; Mark Kenna, the CEO of U.K.-based Bad Blood Films and a film sound consultant; Vicky Lau, a VFX artist and VR consultant; Loren Nielsen, co-founder and president of Entertainment Technology Consultants; Chris Nienow, a VR business development consultant; Leon Silverman, general manager of Digital Studio, at The Walt Disney Studios; David Sontag, an award-winning writer and producer; Jen Soul president of Other World Computing; and Joachim Zell, vice president of imaging science and technical director at EFILM, where he began the EC3 onset and near-set dailies division.
SMPTE 2017 is the premier annual event for motion-imaging and media technology, production, operations, and the allied arts and sciences. This is the third year that SMPTE and the HPA have hosted a student film festival in conjunction with SMPTE 2017.
More information about the film festival is available at http://smpte2017.org/student-film.html.
Further information about SMPTE is available at www.smpte.org. Additional information about the HPA is available at www.hpaonline.com.
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About the Hollywood Professional Association
Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) serves the professional community of businesses and individuals who provide expertise, support, tools, and the infrastructure for the creation and finishing of motion pictures, television, commercials, digital media, and other dynamic media content. Through its partnership with the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE ), the leader in the advancement of the art, science, and craft of the image, sound, and metadata ecosystem, the HPA continues to extend its support of the communit
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