Congratulations to students and BEA Collegiate Media Chapter advisors at SUNY New Paltz (Val Turco and Gregg Bray) for their First and Second Place wins in the international Broadcast Education Association annual Film48 competition. The competition calls upon teams of students to write, produce, film, and edit original short films based on 3 prompts within a 24-hour period.

BEA is a key academic/professional organization for professors and students in media production, management, and research. SUNY New Paltz hosted the first BEA Collegiate Media Chapter in 2017. Since then, dozens of colleges around the US, and internationally, have formed their own chapters.

From the BEA website:
The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) is the premier international academic media organization, driving insights, excellence in media production, and career advancement for educators, students, and professionals. The association’s publications, annual convention, web-based programs, and regional district activities provide opportunities for juried production competition and presentation of current scholarly research related to aspects of the electronic media. These areas include media audiences, economics, law and policy, regulation, news, management, aesthetics, social effects, history, and criticism, among others. BEA is concerned with electronic media curricula, placing an emphasis on interactions among the purposes, developments, and practices of the industry and imparting this information to future professionals. BEA serves as a forum for exposition, analysis and debate of issues of social importance to develop members’ awareness and sensitivity to these issues and to their ramifications, which will ultimately help students develop as more thoughtful practitioners.