RCC-TV Invites Public to Watch High School and College Video Competition

RCC-TV Invites Public to Watch High School and College Video Competition
at Rockland Community College

Media professionals will announce winners

Suffern, NY - Students will present their videos to be judged by media professionals at SUNY Rockland Community College’s second annual RCC-TV Video Festival. Admission is free and open to the public.

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.

This year, the following high schools made arrangements to compete: Suffern, Nyack, BOCES, Clarkstown South and Ramapo High Schools. They will complete against each other with the top school receiving a trophy and the student winners receiving Apple gift cards.

The judges are former SUNY Rockland students now working in the media industry, including a recent graduate who worked on RCC-TV. They 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 ‘02

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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Rockland Community College, a unit of the State University of New York, is located 25 miles northwest of NYC. The majority of its students transfer to four-year colleges, and many find immediate employment upon earning their associate's degree or certificate. The College also offers others, from preschoolers to senior citizens, the opportunity to simply learn something new. Quality education...at a price you can afford.