College's Newly Launched RCC-TV Holds First Ever Video Competition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DATE: April 21, 2008

CONTACT: Lisa Saunders

(845) 574-4244

SUNY Rockland Community College's Newly Launched RCC-TV Holds First Ever Video Competition

Media professionals will announce winners of student-produced videos ranging from comedies to public service announcements about HIV/AIDS and teen pregnancy

Suffern, NY - Media professionals will announce the winners of 21 student-produced videos at SUNY Rockland Community College's first RCC-TV Video Festival.

Videos ranging from 60 sec. - 10 min. will be viewed and winners announced on April 29, 7:00 p.m. at the Technology Center, Room 8180 (Ellipse), Rockland Community College, 145 College Road, Suffern.

The audience will see original music videos that focus on topics such as getting students interested in voting and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, to public service announcements covering HIV/AIDS and teen pregnancy.

RCC-TV and the Performing Arts Department are co-producing this ground-breaking evening. The videos will be shown by categories, which include: Public Service Announcement, Short Film, Music Video, Commercial, Documentary, Comedy, and Animation. The winner from each category will be presented with a trophy and a $50 Apple gift card. The best video overall will win a LCD HDTV.

Freshmen to returning adults, with majors ranging from Communication Media Arts to Computer Information Systems, submitted the videos to the competition. Students from the Data Base Design and Computer Concepts/Application classes participated by creating the judges' scoring sheets and the Festival nominee database.

Janice T. Goldstein '83, Coordinator, Video & Television Productions, Multi-Media Production Center and Producer/Director of the Festival, said, "Our students have been given an amazing opportunity. Their work will be seen by their peers and judged by media professionals."

The judges are former SUNY Rockland students now working in the media industry and include:

Beth Robinson '78

Sr. VP, Broadcast Operations & Engineering

CBS Radio/Westwood One

Regina DecCicco ‘98

Screenwriter

Anthony Quintano ‘99

Videographer/Editor/Graphic Designer

Stephanie Siddi ‘ 2002

ENG Photographer/Editor

News 12 Hudson Valley

Mario Pignard ‘04

Specialty Lighting Technician

Sourcemaker

Ross Resnick attended ‘84 and ‘86

Director/Producer

Rainbow Media

For more information, contact Janice T. Goldstein '83, Coordinator, Video and Television Productions, at 845-574-4429 or jgoldste@sunyrockland.edu. To learn more about the RCC-TV, The Multi-Media Production Center and Internship possibilities, visit: http://www.sunyrockland.edu/about/departments/multi-media-production-center/

The RCC-TV Video Festival is funded by SUNY Rockland Student Activities Fees and the Rockland Community College Alumni Association.

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