“Dancer and the Red Ball,” from Tony Cammarata, USC
Student awards
Thirteen student films received awards in the 2010 U.S. International Film & Video Festival, including four winners from the Denver School of the Arts. Winners also include the teen-age daughter of a veteran California filmmaker, and a graduate student at the University of Southern California. Student winners also came from Toronto’s De LaSalle College, New York University, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and the University of Notre Dame. Read more...
Arabella Weston-Smith (center) with film team, Arabella Watters and
Jason Veitch
Teens film
‘Train of Hope’
Arabella Weston-Smith is 17 and a high school senior at Laguna Blanca in Santa Barbara, Calif., who in 2009 was part of a student team that traveled to Africa to spend a week on the Phelophepa train in Zululand. Read more...
"Heart"
A part of IBM’s “Energy Efficiency” advertising campaign, a series of 3 short videos created to convey IBM green solutions, has received the One World Award, which is sponsored and selected by the International Quorum of Motion Picture Producers (IQ), Zurich, Switzerland.
Wizz Design, Clichy, France, submitted the entry, “IBM Multitask—Popsicle—Heart.” The campaign was developed by Ogilvy Paris and combined a strong and universal concept of environmental awareness, a painter named Coby Kennedy and the talented director, Jean-Francois Julian. The creative team from Ogilvy included Susan Westre, Executive Creative Director; Ginevra Capece, Creative Director; Fergus O'Hare, Creative Director, and Evelyne Callot, Producer.
Earlier work on an environmental theme focused on removing carbon to create value, said O’Hare. The most recent campaign depicted pollution turned into art. The process of turning pollution (urban dirt) into art was filmed live in Paris with a surreal theme, “which made it more beautiful,” he said.
Artist Kennedy has an amazing portfolio of work, ranging from auto to clothing designs and work in the music industry. In the IBM project, he uses a direct “Carbon on Canvas” approach. He takes away the dirt from different places such as walls and cars to prepare the ink he then uses to draw on the canvas. The IBM films show in a metaphorical way that things of positive value can be produced while reducing pollution. “Extremely fun,” Kennedy wrote of the IBM project on his website, www.cobykennedy.com.
The judging team from IQ gave the production high praise: “Beautiful production values with both the visuals and with sound production, an excellent piece of communication and execution, terrific concept.”
Mobius Awards
For Advertising
The U.S. International Film & Video Festivals invites you to participate in a sister competition, the Mobius Awards for advertising, a competition for Television, Cinema/In-flight, Radio, Print, Outdoor, Brochure/Book, Direct, Package Design and Redesign, Point of Purchase, New Media, Mixed Media and Student Work. The Mobius Awards were founded in 1971. Entry deadline is Oct. 1. Sign up for notifications. www.mobiusawards.com