The Public Screening and Awards Presentation of the 22nd Annual Maine Student Film and Video Festival will be held Saturday, July 10, 1999, at 10AM at Railroad Square Cinema, Waterville, ME. The screening is free and open to the public. This screening of finalist and winning movies is held in conjunction with the Maine International Film Festival.

MSFVF is open to Maine residents 19 years of age and younger and received 26 entries from students in grades K - 12 representing all parts of Maine. The movies submitted to the Festival are judged on the basis of originality, content, style, and technique. Movies are reviewed by categories:

• Pre-Teen Division, grades K - 6
• Junior Division, grades 7 - 9; and
• Senior Division, grades 10 - 12.

This year’s Grand Prize winner was selected from the Senior Division. The winners are Jeff Eastman, Tim Eastman, Tristan Dyer, and Ame Perman of Medomak Valley High School in Waldoboro for their movie Three Tables, A Hit, and Some Porn

One of these students will receive a $1400 scholarship to the International Film and Television Workshops, Rockport. Three Tables, A Hit, and Some Porn, 17 minutes, will be shown in its entirety on July 10. The IFTVW scholarship is for a two week course for young filmmakers held this summer.

Judges for the 22nd Festival were: Sarah Carson, photographer and teacher in the Continuing Studies Program for Youth, Maine College of Art, Portland; James Cole, grand prize winner of the 21st MSFVF and a student at USM, Portland; Tom Handel, executive director, Community Television Network, Portland. The Festival’s director is Huey, an independent filmmaker, member of the Maine Touring Artists Program, New Hampshire Arts-In-Education Program, and board member of the Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance from Portland.

The Festival is sponsored by the Maine Alliance of Media Arts and is funded with donations from the Helen Nearing Project, New Born Pictures, and Films by Huey.

A complete listing of movies being screened is as follows:

Pre-Teen Division (Grades K-6)
Finalists

• Titanic Pt. II, 1 minute
  Liz Armstrong Rogers, Melissa Fraser, Rebecca Powers, and Quynh Tran of Soule School, Freeport

• Sam’s Big Adventure, 1 minute
  Ryan Bly and Ryan Bowie of Soule School, Freeport

• African Jumble, 1 minute
  Jessie Fefer and Megan Purgavie of Soule School, Freeport

Winners
• Parachuting Trouble, 1 minute
  Will Field and Hugh Freund of Soule School, Freeport

• One Love , Two Lives, 3 minutes
  Mrs. Fitch’s Multi age Class, Turner Elementary School, Turner

Junior Division ( Grades 7 - 9) Winners
Special Recognition for Community Based Production
• The City We Call Home, Rediscovering Lewiston’s Neighborhoods, 24 minutes (excerpt will be shown)
  Team 82 Students, Grade 8, Lewiston Middle School, Lewiston

• A Curious Exertion, 14 minutes, (excerpt will be shown)
  James Kienitz Wilkins, Edward Little High School, Auburn

Senior Division (Grades 10-12)
Finalists
• Mad Moon Dancing, 25 minutes (excerpt)
  Jeffrey Phillips, Edward Little High School, Auburn

• The Animals’ Zoo, 3 minutes
  Liza Billings, Erin Hulick, Jon Horey, Jeffrey Lipton, Ray Labbe, Matt Lemieux, Hannah Matis, Jeremy McNelley, Lauren Sargent, and Bryan Wallace
  Animation Team Art Class, Brunswick High School, Brunswick

• Man In The Mirror, 7 minutes (excerpt)
  Jerry Grant, Portland Arts and Technology High School, Portland

• Watch These Thoughts, 34 minutes (excerpt)
  Tim Delahanty, Medomak Valley High School, Waldoboro

• Wanderlust, 18 minutes (excerpt)
  Eric Messerschmidt, Vince Faherty, and Ben Weaver, Cape Elizabeth

• Cool Story, 16 minutes (excerpt)
  Anton Sherin, Cody Cichowski, Macaela Flanagan, and Elijah Ocean, Medomak Valley High School, Waldoboro

Winners

Best Animation

• How Raven Stole the Sun,5 minutes
  Tiana Vermette, Tamara Jones, Heather Bradford, Dan Buck, Erica Jarvis, and Aaron Bryant
  MECA - Bangor Animation Class, MECA, Bangor

• Memoirs of Hampden,, 49 minutes (excerpt)
  John Clisham and Brian Doyle, Hampden Academy, Hampden

• Richard Cory, 14 minutes (excerpt)
  John Clisham, Hampden Academy, Hampden

Grand Prize Winner

Recipient of a Scholarship to International Film and Television Workshops, Rockport
• Three Tables, A Hit, and Some Porn, 17 minutes
  Jeff Eastman, Tim Eastman, Tristan Dyer, and Ame Perman, Medomak Valley High School, Waldoboro

Celebrating 20 Years
The Maine Student Film and Video Festival
Public Screening and Awards Presentation
Saturday, July 11, 1998
10:00 AM

Railroad Square Cinema
Waterville, Maine

Press Release July 1998

The 21st Maine Student Film and Video Festival was held in conjunction with the 1st Maine International Film Festival in Waterville, Maine.

MSFVF is open to Maine residents 19 years of age and younger.

Entries are accepted in

• Film
• S-8mm Video
• Hi8
• VHS
• S-VHS
• 3/4"
• Beta

Entries are divided into 3 categories

• Pre-Teen Division ( Grades K - 6)
• Junior Division (Grades 7 - 9)
• Senior Division (Grades 10 - 12)

There is no entry fee.
Submitted movies are reviewed by 3 judges: an educator, a media arts professional, and a past MSFVF winner.
Winners & finalists receive a certificate of merit & prizes such as movie tickets & videotapes.
Grand prize winner, selected from the Senior Division receives a scholarship worth $1400 for the 2 week Young Filmmakers Program at International Film & Television Workshops in Rockport, Maine.

Contact: Huey, Festival Director
Maine Student Film and Video Festival
Box 4320, Portland ME 04101-0520

Phone: 207- 773-1130
e-mail: hueyfilm@nlis.ne
The URL of this web site - http://www.columbia.edu/~jw157/ileife/msfvf.html can be found through MAMA - http://www.columbia.edu/~jw157/ileife/mama.html

General Regulations ~

1. Anyone 19 years of age or younger who is a resident of Maine is eligible.

2. There are three categories in which you may enter as many works as you would like:
   
   Pre-teen ~ grades K-6
   Junior ~ grades 7-9
   Senior ~ grades 10-12

3. The entire production must be the work or the person or persons entering the competition. For group productions, choose the category matching the oldest authoring member of the group. However, there is no age limit for actors or characters who may appear in the production.

4. As a rule, judges award winners and honorable mentions in each category. The judges have final say in giving awards, and they may expand or delete the number of awards in any given year.

5. All works will be handled with care and will be returned at the Festival showing or post-paid following the event. However, MAMA and the cooperating organizations cannot be responsible for loss or damage.

6. MAMA shall have the right to make and use duplicate and enlarged prints and videotapes of entered films and videotapes for publicity and promotion.

7. Works will be selected by a qualified panel of judges on the basis of:
   originality,
   content,
   style, and
   technique.

   The judges decisions are final.

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Entry Form
Submit one entry form for each work.
Please call, write, or e-mail for entry forms,
which include the following:
• Title of film or videotape
  
• Running time ~ Entries should be 30 minutes or less in length - call if longer
  
• Name of Entrant ~ If made by a class, use teacher’s name
  
• Grade
  
• Date of birth
  
• Address (street, town, zip)
  
• Phone
  
• School (name, street, town, zip, phone)
  
• List of co-authors of entered film or videotape
  
• Category of entry
  
  Pre-teen ~ grades K-6
  Junior ~ grades 7-9
  Senior ~ grades 10-12
• Technical information
  
  Video
  
  VHS - Hi8 - 3/4 inch - other
  color - B&W - silent - sound
  
  Film
  
  Super 8 - regular 8 - 16 mm
  color - B&W - silent - sound - type of sound
  Projection instructions, including sound cues
• All authors of entries should provide a capsule statement indicating ~
  • the equipment available to you
    
  • teachers, supervisors, or assisting groups who contributed to the making of your movie, and if applicable,
    
  • the name or nature of the event documented.
    
  • Please note any unusual working conditions, plans, or procedures.
    
• Declaration of entry ~
  
  I am entering this competition as the author or co-author of the above film or videotape. I have read the rules and regulations and agree to abide by them.
  (Moviemaker’s signature and date)
  Parent or teacher ~
  I affirm that I am the parent, guardian, or teacher of (name of entrant) who enters this Festival with my approval and, I believe, in adherence to the rules.
  (Signature of parent or teacher and date)

Special Instructions
• Submit one form for each work entered.
  
• Label all reels, containers, film leaders, tape cassettes and cases
  with the TITLE and the ENTRANT'S NAME.

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Deadline
Entries must arrive at the Festival post office box by June 1, 1999.
Call the Festival to arrange hand delivery - 773-1130.

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The Maine Student Film and Video Festival is sponsored by
MAMA
Maine Alliance of Media Arts
PO Box 4320
Portland, Maine 04101-0520

773-1130

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Maine Alliance of Media Arts

Best of Fifteen Years
The Maine Student Film and Video Festival
(58 minutes, 1993)