Wanted to share some Film 48 (48 hour film festival–48 hours to write, shoot, edit, and upload a short film):

First Place:

Second Place and Audience Award:
https://vimeo.com/266181906

Congrats all!

Really enjoyed this one. Film48 has another premiere tonight.

So Excited for Joy + Noelle. They were our closing presenters for the Animation Festival last weekend.

Their program ‘Mr Sheep and Sleepy Bear’ is coming out!

Read more about the animation festival, which featured Fred Seibert (Frederator) as our keynote, here:

Animation Celebration will bring former Hanna-Barbera president to New Paltz

A little over a year after its initial release on Amazon, “Liner Notes” is now available on Amazon Prime.
Written by John Patrick Bray & Gregory Bray, based on the stage play by John Patrick Bray. Directed by Gregory Bray. Shot by Vincent Carnevale, Edited by Jason Latorre, original score by Danny Asis, with music by HV bands!

Starring Allen Enlow (“Happy!” “Mr. Robot”) and Alyssa Carpenter (“Mahjong and the West”).

Official Selection Woodstock Film Festival
Audience Award Finalist Hoboken Film Festival
Winner First Place Faculty Narrative, Broadcast Education Association
Finalist Chandler Award, Summer, 2017

See it here: Liner Notes

Ecstatic to share we just won a Faculty/Student Collaboration Broadcast Education Association Award of Excellence for the “Hanna Barbera at the Norman Rockwell Museum” video! 🙂 The BEA’s Festival of Media Arts takes place in conjunction with the National Association of Broadcasters expo in Las Vegas, NV this April.
Congratulations to my co-conspirators and students Sydney Mott, Catherine Kaczor, Forrest Miller, and Rachel Dobiecki. This is the 2nd BEA Award for both Catherine and Rachel. Thank you to Fred Seibert, Ellis Henican, Jessie Kowalski, and our friends at the museum for all their time and contributions. 🙂 And a SINCERE and BIG Thank You to Bill Sobel for making it all happen.

Happy to be in this wonderful scholarly collection on Harley Quinn, released as part of her 25th anniversary this past year.
“One of the most popular characters in the DC comicsverse, Harley Quinn is adored by many despite her status as an antihero. This collection of essays is a welcome addition to the scholarship about female characters that are often overlooked in study of genre fiction.” –Sherry Ginn, Marvel’s Black Widow from Spy to Superhero.

Available on Amazon

Nice to end the semester with some great news. 🙂 Twenty teams competed in the 48-hour film festival held the weekend of November 10th-12th. Each team was assigned a specific genre to use for their film. The teams were also assigned three “production constants” that had to appear in each film—a left shoe, a character named Raven Fireswallow, and a line of dialog “This isn’t how I planned my Thursday morning.” Winning teams will receive certificates and have their film screened during the annual BEA Conference in Las Vegas this April. That includes Honorable Mention Dial M for Monday from SUNY – New Paltz.

Please join me in congratulating Deborah Chai Anna Keable, Jason Rinaldi Arianne Rogers Nick Winzig, who will be honored this April at the National Association of Broadcasters/Broadcast Education Association conference this April in Vegas.

SUNY New Paltz films enjoy wins at the annual SUNYWide Film Festival, held this year at Buffalo State.  Full list of credits below. 

“Fierce Five Percent: Women in the Sound Industry” won the First Place Documentary Award.  “Silver,” a documentary profile on street performer Matthew Silver won the Honorable Mention, Documentary.  “Ode to You and I” earned Honorable Mention in the Experimental category. 

“Silver” had previously earned an Award of Excellence at the Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts in Las Vegas this past spring.  Other Official SUNYWide Film Festivals coming from the Digital Media Production program at New Paltz include “Blackbird,” which was just an Official Selection at the Woodstock Film Festival;  “This is Where I Belong,” which earned an Award of Excellence at the Broadcast Education Association Super-Regional Film Festival This Summer; “Daisy,” a documentary on the sudden clown appearances; and “The Lucky Ones,” a profile on Waheed Salam, a retired pilot from Pakistan.    

Please join me in congratulating our students.  🙂

Fierce Five Percent:  Women in the Sound Industry
Heather Bey ’17
Matthew DeBara ’17
Ryan Kakeh ’17
Steve Wood ’17

Silver
Alex Connor
Anna Costanza ’17
Heather Muzynski ’17
Brendan Roode ’17
Dany Ramdhanie

Photos provided by Aaron Rodriguez

Ode to You and I
Samuel Eisenbaum ’17

Exciting news!

SUNY New Paltz films have been accepted into the SUNYWide Film Festival competition!

From the festival:
“The following are the Official Selections for the 2017 SUNYWide Film Festival. We had over 200 submissions from 23 campuses and are delighted to present the films selected for competition in the festival November 9th-11th at SUNY Buffalo State. Films are currently listed by title and SUNY campus affiliation only; student names will be included in festival materials after we have confirmed details with the filmmakers. Thank you to all who submitted and congratulations to all who were selected for SUNYWide Film Festival 8.”

Experimental:
-Ode to You an I
SUNY New Paltz

Documentary:

-Blackbird
SUNY New Paltz

-Daisy
SUNY New Paltz

-Silver
SUNY New Paltz

-The Fierce Five Percent: Women in the Sound Industry
SUNY New Paltz

-The Lucky Ones
SUNY New Paltz

-This Is Where I Belong
SUNY New Paltz

More information here:
SUNYWide

Congratulations all!

I’m thrilled to share our students’ accomplishments with you.

For the last ten years, our students have worked with Woodstock Film Festival to create short promotional, archival, and news package videos for the events! This year, the students worked around the clock to create videos the festival used throughout its run. In five days, students shot, edited, and uploaded over 60 videos, interviewing actors and filmmakers from Barbara Kopple, Giancarlo Esposito, Summer Phoenix, Bill Pullman, and many others.

This is a terrific opportunity for students to meet filmmakers and other industry professionals, hear their stories, learn a bit more about the industry, and also to create deadline-strict, professional quality productions for their reels and resume.

Woodstock Film Festival YouTube

When writing up the festival, the Daily Freeman put one of our hard-working students, Jason Vasquez, on their front page.

Jason Vasquez

More here:
https://www.facebook.com/newpaltz/posts/10155838574939700

Finally, I’m happy to share that one of our own student projects, “Blackbird,” a documentary short that put a spot light on Amy Trompetter and the Redwing Blackbird Theater in Rosendale, premiered to sizable audiences at the festival this weekend.

Please join me in congratulating our students for a job well done!