2003 Slavin Festival Winners


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The 2003

Vincent T. Slavin 

 Student Film and Video Festival

Sponsored  by SMPTE & RAVA

Student filmmakers, videographers, animators and restorers are invited to submit their original works.

 

 

Winners:

 

= film prize in some amount

* = won the “Best Overall Judges Score” Avid XpressDV software

= won the Animation award of Lightwave 3D 7.5 software

 

Fiction Category:

First: "Colorforms" (Eva Saks), running 8:00,

Eva Saks is finishing her NYU thesis film project, a trio of 35mm shorts about New York City, which includes COLORFORMS and CONFECTION, and will conclude with DATE, a short about September 11.  Winner of a Student Academy Award last year for her film FAMILY VALUES (which screened at Sundance, Telluride, and around the world), she is working on a feature length comedy.  Eva sends her thanks to parents, Kodak, cast, and crew!

Second: "Atomic Pizzazz" (John Waterman & Matt Hoesterey), running 4:00

John, Matt, and Mark are currently students at the Rochester Institute of Technology's Film and Animation school, BFA degree program.  Their film "Atomic Pizzazz" was a final project for their Freshman Film/Video Production III class.

Third: "Confection" (Eva Saks), running 5:00


Honorable Mention: "The Slowdown" (Leon Lozano), running 13:30

 

Non-Fiction Category:

First: "Finding Happiness" (Raeanne J. Wright), running 30:00

After graduating last May from RIT’s School of Film and Animation program, Raeanne spent the summer working as the Head of Video at Long Lake Camp for the Arts in the Adirondacks.  She is currently working at Sports and Special Event Video in Henrietta doing freelance videography and editing.  In December Raeanne will be moving to London, England for six months in hopes of getting into the British documentary scene.

Second: "A Short Film about Tall People" (Paul Grimes), running 7:00

 

Animation Category:

First: "Proper Urinal Etiquette" (Kurt Nellis), running 3:30

Kurt graduated from RIT’s MFA program in computer animation in May 2003.  He is currently working in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Kurt has just finished work on The Matrix: Revolution as a layout animator.


Second: "Perpetual Motion" (Kimberly Miner), running 1:26

Currently in her second year in the School of Film and Animation at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Kimberly is taking a couple of classes to learn 3D animation.  Kimberly also enjoys running on the RIT Cross-country team, drawing storyboards for the senior thesis project “The Schooling of Peter Fledge”, and volunteering for the Film/Video/Animation Student Association (FVASA).


Third: "Stranded" (Kurt Nellis), running 8:30


Honorable Mention: "Ingredients" (Everett Religioso), running 5:46

 

Experimental Category:


First: "Free Line" (Keum-Taek Jung), running 3:43

Animator Keum-Taek Jung was born in Korea.  He is currently a graduate student concentrating on computer animation at Rochester Institute of Technology.  He earned a B.F.A. in visual communication from Iowa State University where his studies included painting, illustration, color and calligraphy.  He is interested in the abstraction and transformation of symbols with 3D computer animation.


Second: "Collectors" (Barry Stricke), running 5:00

Barry Strike’s short films have screened both nationally and internationally on four continents. His first film "Collectors" was selected for international competition at the 2003 Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival (France) and 2003 Sao Paulo Short Film Festival (Brazil), the premier world festivals for short films. 

A former intellectual property and public interest lawyer, Barry has taught film and video production at the New York Film Academy, and is currently a graduate assistant at New York University Film School (Tisch), where he is earning an MFA, editing his narrative short "Williamsburg" (a futuristic western set in Brooklyn) and in pre-production on his first feature, "Side Effects".

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Kodak Certificates for the following:

  1. Eva Saks, from New York University, “Colorforms”, First Place for Fiction, shot on 35mm film, awarding $1,000 camera origination film
  2. Raeanne J. Wright, from Rochester Institute of Technology, “Finding Happiness”, First Place for Non-fiction, shot on 16mm film, awarding $1,000 camera origination film
  3. Paul Grimes, from Rochester Institute of Technology, “A Short Film about Tall People”, Second Place for Non-fiction, shot on 16mm film, awarding $500 camera origination film
  4. Keum-Taek Jung, from Rochester Institute of Technology, “Free Line”, First Place for Experimental, shot some 35mm film, awarding $1,000 camera origination film
  5. Barry Stricke and Adam Halpern, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, “Collectors”, Second Place for Experimental, shot on 16mm film, awarding $500 camera origination film

 

 

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