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Real Ideas Studio Honors Students from Cannes
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Students from 13 Countries complete nine documentaries
SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 11, 2008 — Real Ideas Studio announced today the results of its Cannes Student Filmmaking Program. Forty-five students in culturally diverse teams created documentaries from their experience at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
“By bringing students and professionals together at Cannes, participants learned a great deal about film, and importantly, about themselves and the larger world around them,” said Jim Kenney, program Director.
Student, Mark Sloss, noted, “At times, our work studio was like the press office in a war zone. Everyone thrived on it. The tight deadlines and relationships gave me the confidence to take on anything the industry can throw at me.”
The final documentaries were screened May 23rd in the Louis Bory Theater in the festival’s main Palais. At the awards ceremony, individuals and teams were honored: Emerging Editor, Mikaela Shwer of SAE Institute, Byron Bay, Australia; for Emerging Cinematographer, Mathias Becker of University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany; for Emerging Publicist, Jessica Ellacott of Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada; for Emerging Motion Graphics Designer, Heidi Berg of the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA; and for Emerging Director, Mark Sloss of International Film School of Wales, Newport, UK.
The Best Documentary, as judged by industry luminaries, went to Team Odyssey for, Le Dernier Endroit. Team members: Director, Guilherme Ribeiro, Portugal; Cinematographer, Glenn McManus, USA; Editor, Katrina Bolletta, Canada; Motion Graphics, Aldo Murillo, Mexico; Publicist, Shauna Fleming, USA; each receives Adobe Production Premium CS 3 software and a grant of $2000 US Dollars toward their filmmaking education.
Real Ideas Studio seeks to redefine “real world experience” as a global collaborative and cultural immersion within mentored creative arts programs. Work from the 2008 program can be viewed at www.realideasstudio.com.
This year’s program sponsors were Adobe Systems, Inc., Intel Corporation and Vancouver Film School. Dell, Inc. provided Precision Workstations. Sony Corporation provided XDCAM EX1 video cameras. Mentors and staff were from the California CollegeUniversity of Southern California, American University of Paris, Original City Pictures, Spielerkabine, and past emerging talent of Real Ideas Studio.
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