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March 30, 2004

Campus MovieFest 2004

For the second year in a row, I attended Georgia Tech's Campus Movie Fest (sponsored by a popular local airline--click the link if you really want to know). The event organizers provide any interested Georgia Tech students with digital video cameras, editing equipment, some training, and then students have one week to make a short film (5 minutes or less), with the winners receiving valubale prizes (dinners, round-trip plane tickets, etc). So far, the event takes place on eight different Georgia campuses, including Emory, UGA, Georgia State, and the Atlanta University center.

Several of the movies, especially the night's winning team, showed some outstanding talent and creativity. I'll update later when I find the name of the winning film, but the work, in spirit and style, reminded me of Godfrey Reggio's "Qatsi Trilogy." Also nice to see several of my students participating in some of the films that were screened.

Posted by chuck at March 30, 2004 4:40 PM

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The name of the winning film is "Diametric" by a team called "Transformer Monkeys".

You can see the top films from all 8 Atl Schools in the FOX on April 19th!

for further info:
http://www.campusmoviefest.com/foxtickets.htm

In addition, they will air on GTCN this month.

Posted by: Matthew Taylor at April 14, 2004 10:48 PM

Thanks, Matthew. I'll try to attend.

Posted by: chuck at April 14, 2004 11:46 PM

It's just a shame their creative insirpation was ripped off from WDDG's "Anamorph". A good, if perhaps contrived, effort.

BTW- I wouldn't go around WDDG looking for a job if I were anyone from that team. I think they "caught wind" of Diametric.

Posted by: ArtificialMorality at August 23, 2005 5:40 PM

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