2008 Princeton Student Film & Video Festival

Festival Dates: July 16 & 17, 2008, 7:00 each night. 

Doc: The Animation Class Message in a Bottle Shadows Are Falling Cash Run
Losing Ground Jack Daniels Private Eye In Loving Memory Transformers: The Student Film
Flying: The Gospel of Ringo Starr Ninja1064 Rejection Wide Awake
Welcome to the Jungle The People Fresh Fruit Dirt


Princeton Student Film & Video Festival 2008

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:

Wednesday July 16, 2008:


Doc: The Animation Class by Jackie Benowitz & Chris Johnson
Message in a Bottle by Rose Forcier & Lora Chau Davis
Shadows Are Falling by Gary Powell
Cash Run by J.T. Fetch & Mike Goldin
Losing Ground

by YO-TV producers: Devaughn Barden, Theresa Dilworth, Eva Duarte, Gilbert Feliciano, Veridiana Montas & Ryson Thomas
Jack Daniels, Private Eye by Robert Venanzi
In Loving Memory by Ben Saltzman
Transformers: The Student Film by David Coscarelli 

Thursday July 17, 2008:


Flying: The Gospel of Ringo Starr by Charlie Heller & Warren Heller
Ninja 1064 by Jimmy Breen
Rejection by Scott Sullivan
Wide Awake by Chris Preperato
Welcome to the Jungle by Matthew Elisofon
The People by Tamara Masri
Fresh Fruit by Brenden Cicoria & Edward Kelley
Dirt by Brendan Dean

 

Download a 2008 PSF&VF poster (11x17)


The 5th annual festival features the work of students in high school and college (or up to age 24). Many of the filmmakers will attend and introduce and talk about their work both nights. It is intended for a teen and adult audience. For more information contact Susan Conlon at (609)924-9529 ext. 247 or send email to sconlon@princetonlibrary.org.

The Princeton Student Film Festival is coordinated by Princeton Public Library Teen Services Librarian Susan Conlon, and it is supported by a grant from the Horizon Foundation.

2008 Guidelines/Entry Form

Film Booklist/Web Resources


2007 Princeton Student Film & Video Festival

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Princeton Student Film & Video Festival wins

2007 VOYA Magzine MVP Award for Creative Program!


FILM RESOURCES:


Watch to Watch:

IT'S ABOUT TIME - Films with a time travel theme

MEDIA ON FILM list (Updated)


Outlets for filmmakers:

Current TV

DCTV.org

Educational Video Center (EVC)

Ghetto Film School

ListenUp.org

MediaRights.org

P.O.V.

Reelworks.org

YouTube.com


NJ Festivals & Resources:

New Jersey Motion Picture & Television Commission

Save the date: Princeton Human Rights Film Festival: May 10-13, 2007

Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center – Home of the New Jersey Film Festivals and the U.S. Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival.


Reviews & Other Film Info Sources:

Academic Film Archive of North America

American Film Institute

Balconey Archive - 5000 film reviews from Siskel, Ebert and Roeper

Cinema-Sites.com

Cinemedia

Current TV -- Production Guide

Documentary blog

Documentary Films.net

Facets

Film Comment

Film Culture (UC Berkeley Film Studies Department)

FilmForum

Filmmaking.net

Great Directors Database

Internet Movie Database

Media Rights.org

MovieMagazine Cool SitesMovie Mistakes

Movieweb.com

Rottentomatoes.com

WorldJournal.com links


News & Media Resources:

ACME – Active Coalition for Media Education Resources

Alternative Media

Chat the Planet.com

Listen Up! Youth Media Network

MNN Youth Channel – Youth Channel is an alternative to mass media created to provide equal access to all young people, regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or social status.

Media Center.org

Media Institute.org

Media Literacy Review

Mondo Times - Links to more than 14,000 media outlets in 211 countries.

National Association of Broadcasters Media Sites

NewsHour Extra - Stories written for students, media resources and interactive reports based on stories from the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the nightly news broadcast on PBS.

Newseum.org

Newslink – links to over 3,400 U.S. newspapers

Paper Tiger.org Paper Tiger Television (PTTV) is an open, non-profit, volunteer video collective. PTTV programs analyze and critique issues involving media, culture and politics.

Rise Up Radio

U.S. Newpapers Directory

Who’s Who and What’s What – Weekly Current Events Quiz from the New York Times Learning Network

YO! – A monthly newspaper by and about young people, which also syndicates articles to newspapers across the U.S.

Youth Channel

YMDI.org – YMDI’s mission is to improve the distribution of independent youth created film, video, radio and new media.


Television Sites:

Cult-tv

Museum of Televison & Radio

Sci-Fi.com

Tim’s TV Showcase

Zap-it.com


Please share your ideas and comments with us at: comments@princetonlibrary.org