FILM MAKERS REQUESTED TO SUBMIT WORK

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FILM MAKERS REQUESTED TO SUBMIT WORK
Auburn University Film Society and the Auburn University Department of Communication and Journalism are seeking entries for this year's Movie Gallery Student Video Competition.  The deadline for entries is February 17, 2003.  High school and college students are encouraged to send films in a variety of categories, including animation, documentary, abstract/experimental, short fictional story and political/social satire.  An entry of fee of $20 should accompany each submission.  Cash prizes for first, second and third place winners for both high school and college divisions will be awarded.  
For more information, visit http://www.auburn.edu/student_info/film/contest.htm 

or contact: J. Emmett Winn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Officer
Department of Communication and Journalism
217 Tichenor Hall
Auburn University, AL 36849-5211
Phone: 334-844-2761
Fax: 334-844-4573   Email: winnjoh@auburn.edu




The Jay Sanders Film Festival is a yearly event where chosen entries to the student video contest are shown and judges vote for their favorites. Jay Sanders is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Communication & Journalism at Auburn University and is responsible for initiating film studies at Auburn (to find out more about Jay Sanders visit his tribute page). This year's festival will be held Thursday, April 17, 2003 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the theatre auditorium of the Auburn University Hotel & Dixon Conference Center, 241 S. College St., Auburn, AL 36830-5400.  For more information about the Hotel & Conference Center call 1-800-2AUBURN or 334-821-8200.4/11/02

Janet L. McCoy, 334/844-9999

JAY SANDERS FILM FESTIVAL TO BE HELD AT AUBURN APRIL 18

AUBURN -- The Jay Sanders Film Festival, which is scheduled for April 18 on the Auburn University campus, will provide young high school and college film makers from across the nation, the opportunity to have their work judged and viewed by an audience.

The festival, which is free and open to the public, will be held from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the theater auditorium of the Auburn University Hotel and Dixon Conference Center.

The Auburn Film Society and AU's Department of Communication and Journalism will sponsor the event.

Fourteen films will be shown -- six from high school film makers and the rest from college students, said J. Emmett Winn, a professor of communication and the festivalšs director.

The festival showcases the finalists of the Movie Gallery Student Video Competition. This year's competition received more than 190 entries from high school and college students from 31 different states.

Guest judges will pick the best videos during the festival and the winners are awarded cash prizes, provided by an endowment to the university by Movie Gallery.

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apr02: AU-filmfest CONTACT: Winn at winnjoh@auburn.edu
or 334/844-2761.