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Oscar-winning director John Schlesinger Presents More
Than $25,000 in Prizes to Award Winners at Teen
Digital Movie-Making Competition During Santa
Barbara International Film Festival
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--March 16, 1998--
Oscar-winning director of "Midnight Cowboy," John Schlesinger, presented the
award-winning filmmakers of tomorrow with more than $25,000 worth of prizes at the 3rd
Annual Teen Digital Movie-Making Competition.
Narrowed down from 61 entries worldwide, the finalists' films were screened Saturday at the
Fiesta Five Theater as part of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. After the
screenings, the awards ceremony took place, with the Best of Show and Best of Santa
Barbara awards presented by Schlesinger.
The Best of Show winners, Christopher Carlston and David Cunliffe from Skyline High
School in Salt Lake City received Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere, $500 Certificate
for MetaCreations software, Media Cleaner Pro from Terran Interactive, Syquest SyJet drive
with cartridge, CalComp UltraSlate 6X9 drawing tablet with software, "Planetary Traveler"
video from Third Planet Entertainment and Intel Bunny Person Replica.
As the sponsoring school of the winning entry, the Skyline High School received a $3,000
Technology Grant from MetaCreations, an Intel Pentium II processor-based system with
Share & Play digital camera pack, Adobe After Effects, Total Training After Effects and Final
Effects training video series, MetaCreations' Final Effects Complete, Infini-D and Bryce 3D
and Syquest SparQ drive with cartridge.
The Best of Santa Barbara winners, Eliot Kapit and Andrew Burk from Santa Barbara
Middle School, received one week's tuition at American Computer Experience's Summer
Computer Camp, Media Cleaner Pro from Terran Interactive, $300 Certificate for
MetaCreations software, Syquest SyJet drive with cartridge, CalComp UltraSlate 4x5
drawing tablet, "Planetary Traveler" video from Third Planet Entertainment and Intel Bunny
Person Replica.
Schlesinger is one of the most prominent filmmakers of our time, a man who has received
virtually every major award and honor that the film industry could bestow.
He won the Oscar as Best Director for his film "Midnight Cowboy," which also won the
Oscar for Best Film, and the British Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Film. He
has won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (for his film "Terminus"), the Golden
Bear at the Berlin Film Festival (for "A Kind of Loving"), the New York Critics Award and an
Oscar nomination for "Darling"; and numerous other British Academy Awards, critics awards,
film festival awards, as well as awards for his stage work.
Among his most recent films have been "Eye For An Eye" (Paramount, 1995), "Cold Comfort
Farm" (BBC/Grammercy, 1996), and last year "Sweeney Todd" and "House of Mirth".
The 1998 Teen Digital Movie-Making Competition, sponsored by MetaCreations Corp, Intel
Corp. and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, is designed to encourage students
between 13 and 19 enrolled in school to learn the art of digital design and multimedia
production through the use of creative desktop software programs, digital cameras, scanners
and other accessories. The competition was open to two-person teams, with each team
creating a 60-second digital video, using official audio and video material supplied by
MetaCreations in one of four interpretive categories: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi and Western.
For its third year, the Teen Digital Movie-Making Competition received support from an
advisory board, consisting of luminaries from the film, digital graphics and education industries.
Members include director Alfonso Arau ("Like Water For Chocolate"); Ed Burns ("The
Brothers McMullen"); Elizabeth Dailey, Dean of the School of Cinema-Television at the
University of Southern California; Michael Douglas; actor Laurence Fishburne ("Othello");
director Milos Forman ("The People vs. Larry Flynt"); Joshua Greer, CEO of Digital Planet;
Judy Headly, Director of Instructional Media Services for the Santa Barbara County
Education Office; James Hindman, Co-Director and COO, American Film Institute; Paul
Sidlo, President of RezN8; and director Ron Underwood ("Mighty Joe Young"); and John
Wilczak, Founder, MetaCreations.
Additionally, the expert panel of judges included James Breen, member of the Santa Barbara
International Film Festival Board; Erik Dehkhoda, 3D Designer/Animator, creator of the 3D
Looney Tunes and graphics consultant for Disney and Warner Bros.; Craig Ridenour, Film
Editor for NBC and Paramount Television TV series and movies of the week; Larry Tuch,
member of the Writers Guild of America, and writer for the CD-ROM versions of "Where in
the World is Carmen Sandiego?" and "Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego?"; and John
Voland, Technology Reporter, Daily Variety.
In addition to MetaCreations, the sponsors and event underwriters include: Adobe Systems,
American Computer Experience, Backlot Hollywood, CalComp, Carlson Wagonlit Travel,
David Warren Design, Intel, Santa Barbara County Education Office, Syquest, Terran
Interactive, Third Planet Entertainment and Total Training.
MetaCreations, the visual computing software company, designs, develops, publishes,
markets and supports software tools and enabling technologies for creating, editing and
manipulation of computer graphic images, digital art and Internet/online content on the desktop
for both professionals and consumers. Working with distributors in North America, Europe
and Asia, MetaCreations' professionals and consumer software is available in more than 70
countries.
The company's headquarters is located in Santa Barbara County at 6303 Carpinteria Ave.,
Carpinteria, Calif. 93013; telephone 805/566-6200; fax 805/566-6385. The company also
has significant operations in Scotts Valley, Calif., and Princeton, N.J. MetaCreations
International Ltd. is located at Wilson House, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, Ireland; telephone
353-1-662-9333; World Wide Web server metacreations.com.
CONTACT: MetaCreations
Kerry Glassburn, 805/566-6296
or
Rogers & Cowan
Michael Dalling/Melissa Altman, 310/201-8813/897
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