Nine projects were accepted in the 17th annual CSU Media Arts Film Festival from Cal State Long Beach film students.
The festival will be held on Nov. 2 through Nov. 4 at California State University, Channel Islands in Camarillo, with cash prizes and the prestigious Rosebud Award awarded to winning student entries.
The CSU Media Arts Festival was established in 1991 to give talented students studying film, video and interactive media within the 23 campuses of the California State University system an opportunity to present their work for critical review.
“The mission of the festival is to help students transition into working professionals, and I get incredible satisfaction from seeing this actually happen,” said Joanne Bartok Sharp, the festival’s director.
In 2000, the CSU Media Arts Festival expanded its mission to include helping students of the CSU close the gap between student and working professional. The festival also allows media arts students to experience three days of seminars to become more successful professionals in the film industry.
There will be 16 different seminars planned for the students attending. They will have the choice of picking one seminar to participate in,” Sharp said. “But mostly, we’re just trying to network people into getting to know each other as well as getting to know people from the film industry.”
Even though CSULB is the top contributor to the festival, Sharp said, “I’ve been trying to figure out why Long Beach students won’t come to the event. I mean, we have had students come from Humboldt State, and CSULB is only an hour away.”
Sharp said she hopes this year that more students from CSULB will come.
“Seeing students from different campuses talking and congratulating each other on their great work is one of the most satisfying aspects of the program,” Sharp said.
