Film School Students Win Annual Kodak ScholarshipFaculty Award Also Bestowed CHICAGO, August 4-Delphine Suter of San Francisco State University and Matthew Ardine of Emerson College in Boston have been named winners of the 2005 Eastman Scholarship competition for film students at the annual University Film & Video Association (UFVA) conference hosted by Columbia College. Roy Cross of Concordia University won Kodak's Faculty Scholarship. "We are committed to providing practical support for the next generation of filmmakers and their mentors at this critical juncture in their careers," said Colette Scott, worldwide manager of the Education Segment of Kodak's Entertainment Imaging Division, who presented the awards. The student competition drew 49 submissions from 35 schools throughout the United States and Canada. Accredited film schools were limited to two nominations each. Judging was based on sample reels submitted by the students, recommendations from faculty, and academic achievements. The jury, comprising filmmakers and educators, judged how effectively the cinematography supports the filmmaker's story. Suter won the grand prize, including an $8,000 scholarship that is applicable toward tuition, for Eyes of a Child that she directed and co-produced with Joey Mullen of San Francisco State. It is a story of a little girl who reads stories and imagines herself in them. Suter used different camera films to draw a sharp visual contrast between reality and fantasy. She used KODAK VISION2 Expression 500T 7229 film, which was manipulated to create a flat, drab look in the real world, and KODAK VISION 200T 7274 film to emphasize bright, vibrant colors in fantasy scenes. Ardine, a cinematographer, won the second place prize consisting of a $4,000 scholarship for his work on Back East. Ardine spent three months working with the director storyboarding and planning the shot list, and six weeks in preproduction with his student crew planning lighting plots. For example, to shoot night-for-day scenes in a tavern, he flooded the bar's exterior with some 30 lighting units. "Some people might think it's over the top to prepare that much for a student film, but it really allowed us to be more effective when it came time to shoot and get just what we wanted," he says. Back East won the cinematography award at the Latent Image Film Festival and Evvy Awards. It was shot on KODAK VISION 500T 7279 film. Faculty Scholar Winner Cross, an assistant professor at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montreal, won an $8,000 production grant to support his project. The 10-minute, black-and-white film will be shot on 35 mm format and taken to release print using low-budget workflow and hand-processing techniques. His goal for the project is for it to become the basis for a new production syllabus and to give those who have not used film a practical film reference. He will work with students to create the project and provide hands- on experience in how to produce and finish a short 35 mm film. This is the fourth year that Kodak's Faculty Scholarship award has been presented to a faculty member who demonstrates a high level of production skill, creativity and teaching experience in production. The blue-ribbon jury consisted of filmmakers and other industry professionals who judged some 20 entries. About the Competitions Kodak inaugurated the Eastman Scholarship program in 1991 for undergraduate and graduate students at universities offering degrees in film in the United States and Canada. Nearly a hundred young people have received scholarships since then. The scholarships augment film grants and discount programs provided by Kodak's Student Filmmaker Program to qualified film schools. Kodak also sponsors guest lecturers in addition to providing educational programs and materials. For more information on Kodak's education initiatives, visit the Kodak website www.kodak.com/go/student. For information on the Eastman Scholarship and Kodak Faculty Scholar programs, visit the UFVA website at www.ufva.org. |