Update on sparky awards
Sparky Awards link up with Campus MovieFest; judges panel to include new media luminaries, press release, October 2, 2008.
Campus MovieFest, the worldâs largest student film festival, is a new sponsor of the 2008 Sparky Awards, a contest that recognizes the best new short videos on the value of sharing information. The competition promotes discussion of free and open access to information by inviting students to consider the issues and creatively express their views. …
As a sponsor, Campus MovieFest (CMF) will draw the attention of tens of thousands of student filmmakers to the Sparky Awards. The winner of the 2008 Sparky Awards will be screened at the CMF Southern Grand Finale in Spring 2009.
SPARC has also announced that 2008 contest judges will include noted media experts:
Michael Wesch, the anthropologist whose innovative video explaining Web 2.0 has been viewed more than seven million times on YouTube;
Media scholar and filmmaker Kembrew McLeod, whose book and documentary film entitled Freedom of ExpressionÂŽ: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property have received broad critical acclaim; and
University of Pennsylvania cinema studies professor Peter Decherney, author of Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American and leader of the 2006 petition for an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for media professors to use clips in teaching. …
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