High School Students Invited to Compete in RCC-TV Video Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DATE: February 27, 2009

CONTACT: Lisa Saunders

(845) 574 - 4244

lsaunde2@sunyrockland.edu

High School Students Invited to Compete in the Rockland Community College
RCC-TV Annual Video Festival

Submission deadline: 4/1/09

Suffern, NY - Media professionals will judge student-produced videos at SUNY Rockland Community College’s second annual RCC-TV Video Festival.

Videos ranging from 60 sec. - 12 min. will be viewed and winners announced on April 23, 7:00 p.m. at the Cultural Arts Theater, Rockland Community College, 145 College Road, Suffern. RCC Hospitality students will serve homemade desserts following the program.

RCC-TV and the Performing Arts Department are co-producing the event. The videos will be shown by categories, which include:

Short Film

Music Video

Animation

Comedy

News Story

PSA (Public Service Announcement)

Commercial

Documentary

Prizes awarded in each category for RCC students, who will also compete for the grand prize, a 32" Sharp Aquos LCD HD-TV.

High schools that have made arrangements to compete are Suffern, Nyack, BOCES, Clarkstown South and Ramapo. The high schools will compete against each other with the top school receiving a trophy and the student winners, a $50 Apple gift card.

The judges are former SUNY Rockland students now working in the media industry as well as a recent graduate of SUNY Rockland and RCC-TV. Judges 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

Freelance Producer/Videographer/Editor

Mario Pignard ‘04

Specialty Lighting Technician

Sourcemaker

Ross Resnick attended ‘84 and ‘86

Director/Producer

Rainbow Media

Briana Stewart ‘08

Junior – Hofstra University

For more information, contact Janice T. Goldstein '83, Coordinator, Video and Television Productions, at 845-574-4429 or jgoldste@sunyrockland.edu. See www.videofestival.tk for details or visit the Multi-Media Production Center in Room 8330, Technology Center.

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