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May 4, 2007
Media contact: Laura Gropen, 760-744-1150 x1519
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2nd Annual Student Film and Video Festival
After months of anticipation, the winners of the 2nd Annual Student Film and Video Festival, presented by 3C Media Solutions (formerly known as CCCSAT) will be announced on Friday, May 4 starting at 10 a.m. The LIVE awards program will premiere on 3C Media Solutions/CCCSAT network and simultaneously webcast at www.cccsat.org.
The contest, which was open to all California Community Colleges students, received 174 entries from 26 of the 109 community colleges; participation in the contest more than tripled this year. The nine contest categories include: News Programs; News Packages; Features and Magazines; Sports; Documentaries and Interviews; Commercials, Promos and PSAs; Music, Variety and Specialty; Animation and Graphics; and Short Film. In addition, the entry receiving the highest points will be awarded“Best of Show” recognition. A panel consisting of both faculty and students served as judges for the event. The first place winners in each category will receive an Avid Media Composer software. The winner of the Short Film category will win a four-week 16 mm rental package from Panavision, and the entry for Show will receive a software editing package from Avid along with production elements from Killer Tracks and a sound effects package from Hollywood Edge.
Brian Gott earned the best of show honors for his entry One Night Forever in the Short Film category as well as a first place award in the same category. Gott is from Modesto College.
The winners in the nine categories are as follows:
News Programs:
Benjamin Cruz, 2nd Place for Newscene.
Randy Hampton, 3rd Place for North County News.
There was no first place award or Honorable Mentions given in this category.
News Packages:
Austin Hill, 2nd Place for Sign Spinners.
Chella Donnelly, 3rd Place for Tattoo.
There was no first place awarded in this category.
Honorable Mention awards were given to the following students:
Troy Clarke for US Iranian Relations, from Riverside Community College; Karyn Bower for Choc Baby Malakai, from Saddleback College; Tonya Lehman for Water Conservation Garden, from Grossmont College, Virginia Kennedy for Credit Cards; from Palomar College, Robert Winsmann for Medieval Knights; and Barbara J. Graham for Reel Job 2006 from Gavilan College.
Feature/Magazine:
Tony Sanchez, 2nd Place for Newscene En Espanol from San Diego City College.
Joseph Mendonca, 3rd Place for Tenth Planet from Modesto Jr. College.
There was no first place winner awarded in the Feature/Magazine category.
Honorable Mention awards were given to the following students:
J. Baker for Women in Entertainment from Riverside Community College;
Jonathan Bunke for Safety & Security on Campus at Los Rios Community
College; Chad Pickrel for North American Wrestling from Modesto Jr.
College; and Chet Heine for Recycling Protecting the Environment from
Modesto Jr. College.
Sports:
In the Sports category, no awards were given.
Documentary/Interview:
Kigh Sturdevan and Nate Brown, 1st Place for 50 Plus Balance & Mobility for a Fall Proof Life from Mira Costa College.
Michael Anthony Dunston, 2nd Place for Composed by Anonymous from
Berkeley City College.
David Simon, 3rd Place for Energy from Foothill College.
Honorable Mention awards were given to the following students:
Raelyn Mundhenk for Are You Happy? from Pasadena City College;
Ilja Sarro for To the Bone from Berkeley City College; Steven Martin
Chernow for Every Veteran Has a Story from Irvine Valley College; and
J. Baker for Black History Month from Riverside Community College.
Commercial/Promo/PSAs:
Victoria Grimsely, 2nd Place for Annual Student Film and Video
Festival from Palomar College.
Alli Dixon, 3rd Place for Mira Costa Creative Arts Complex; The Creative
Jewel from Mira Costa College.
There was no first place winner awarded in the Commercial/Promo/PSAs category.
Honorable Mention awards were given to the following students:
Rachel Perey and Tomomi Kumula for College of San Mateo Broadcast
Promo from College of San Mateo; Alli Dixon for Mira Costa Enrollment
Commercial from Mira Costa College; Nick Gustafson for Diablo Grande
From Modesto Jr. College; Nick Taylor for Miracle Fro from Butte College;
John M. Kent for Palomar Promo from Palomar College; Robert Cottrell for A Place to Learn from Irvine Valley College; Joseph Hosford for Palomar
College Promo from Palomar College; Nick Taylor for Sexpert Condoms from Butte College and Christopher White for Alcohol Abuse from
Grossmont College.
Music/Variety/Specialty/Other:
Victoria Grimsely, 1st Place for Make-A-Date from Palomar College.
Justin Thatcher, 2nd Place for PCTV Intern Short from Palomar College.
Stew Ivester, 3rd Place for El Diablo Run ’06 from Irvine Valley College.
Honorable Mention awards were given to the following students:
Scotty Roberts for A Mother’s Memory from Mira Costa College;
Christopher White for Addiction from Grossmont College; Cliff Kerlegon,
Stephannie Nalla and Hideto Kutsunai for Addiction from El Camino
College; Teresa Widowson for Cyclede L’eau from Gavilan College;
Kate Krohn for Liquid Assets from Berkeley City College; Tonya
Lehman for Ready or Not Hear I Come from Grossmont College; and
Joseph R. Sevec for An Introduction to Geo Caching from Cerro Coso
College.
3D Graphics/Animation:
Kigh Sturdevan, 2nd Place for 50 Plus Balance & Mobility for a Fall
Proof Life from Mira Costa College.
Frank Cuellar, 3rd Place for Inside My Head from Reedley College.
There was no first place winner in this category.
Honorable Mention awards were given to the following students:
Joseph Hosford for Make-A-Date Open from Palomar College; Ilja Sarro
for In the Hall of the Mountain King from Berkeley College; and multiple
producers for Silence of the Monkey from Reedley College.
Short Film
Miguel Nunuz, 1st Place for The Structure of Faith from Pasadena City
College.
Aaron Hernandez, 2nd Place for Citizens of Dis from Southwestern
College.
Jeremy Irion, 3rd Place for Broken Border from Saddleback College.
Honorable Mention awards were given to the following students:
Dane Argentieri for Kane’s Blight from Berkeley City College; Ilja Sarro
for Sleepless from Berkeley City College; Victoria Grimsley, Justin
Thatcher and Eric McGill for Commander Cosmos and the Wrath of
Zandar from Palomar College; Brandon Gibbs for The Neighbor from
Palomar College; Christin Fisher for Deception from Palomar College;
Joey Liew for Kin from Pasadena City College; James Hosford, Richard
Boosey, Timmy Trevaris and Sanyo O’Reilly for Chasing a Dream from
Palomar College; Joseph Otanez for Albert from Palomar College;
Karla Esquivel for Best Served Cold from Southwestern College; Ikud
Saitd for Bite of the Dead from Los Angeles City College; Evan Phan
for Persophone from Pasadena City College; Dane Argentieri for
Victor Frankenstein Scene 3: Preparation to Kill from Berkeley City
College; Trevor Heasley for Tyler’s Room from Pasadena City College; Christopher White for Deadline from Grossmont College; and Aaron Hernandez for Vulture from Southwestern College.
With the success of this contest in the can, plans are already underway for the 3rd Annual CCCSAT Student Film & Video Festival. The details for next year’s contest will be available on the 3C Media Solutions (formerly known as CCCSAT) website, www.cccsat.org.
3C Media Solutions is the educational distribution network dedicated to assisting the California Community Colleges in providing ubiquitous access to academic and vocational instruction as well as CCC relevant information and entertainment serving over 2.5 million students and 85,000 faculty and staff throughout the state. 3C Media Solutions delivers high-quality, digital broadcasts to 127 Affiliate locations including the California Community College system, college district offices and the CCC Chancellor's Office. These entities not only contribute relevant programming, but also serve as locations where students, faculty, staff and administrators can meet, collaborate, learn and enrich their lives.
3C Media Solutions is a statewide, grant-funded initiative established by the California Community College Chancellor's Office in 1997 to advance distance learning and support the mission of the California Community College system. CCCSAT is based at Palomar College in San Marcos, California.
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