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OSTN AND INTERNET2 PRESENT INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL
Groundbreaking Film Festival Uses Internet2 Network to Exhibit Original Student Film and Video to Cleveland, Internet Audiences
| Cleveland – August 06, 2007 – The Open Student Television Network (OSTN) and Internet2 held their first joint film festival over three nights of screenings on July 19, 20, and 21. The OSTN-Internet2 Film Festival showcased student work submitted to OSTN from 2004-2007 and was held at Cleveland State University’s Monte Ahuja Hall as part of Ingenuity Fest. The film festival’s first-year screenings featured programs from around the world and produced locally in Northeast Ohio. After each screening, Internet2’s high performance national, regional, and campus networks provided an interactive videoconference linking directors and instructors with audience attending the film festival for live Q&A sessions. | | “The first annual The OSTN-Internet2 Film Festival proved to be a successful and truly educational venue for student filmmakers to share their work and experiences in a rich and interactive environment,” said Ann Doyle, program manager for Internet2’s Arts and Humanities Initiative. “We look forward to working with OSTN on future events where we can leverage next-generation technologies to provide students access and exposure to new opportunities that might not otherwise be available to them.” The event included a Premiere VIP Reception on Thursday, July 19, attended by executives from OSTN, CampusEAI, and Internet2, as well as members of Cleveland’s arts, technology, and business communities. Attendees enjoyed a red-carpet entrance, hors d’oeuvres and beverages, and music provided by sitar and jazz ensembles. |  | OSTN-Internet2 Film Festival Premiere VIP Reception | | | | During the Premiere VIP Reception, OSTN recognized Film Festival sponsors Baker Hostetler, National City, Cohen & Company, and Case Western Reserve University and donors Whole Foods Market, Jillian’s, and Quiznos Subs. Thursday’s reception was followed by an evening of the best short films submitted to OSTN from around the world. After the screening, the videoconference linked instructors from Duke University’s Film/Video/Digital Program (FVD) with audience at Monte Ahuja Hall for a Q&A discussion. |  | Nina Sarnelle (right), director of CATARACT, and
Anjli Jain, Executive Director, CampusEAI Consortium | | Nina Sarnelle, the director of CATARACT, answered questions about her experimental film from Monte Ahuja Hall and was joined via videoconference by Production Coordinator Josh Gibson and Animation Instructor Fred Burns from Duke’ FVD, the program that produced the animated short Attack of the Cephalopods. Friday evening’s documentary film showcase featured three films: Trauma, Voices of the Past, Faces of the Present, and “Understanding Relapse,” from HBO’s Addiction. The screening was followed by a Q&A discussion featuring the director of Trauma Robert Duns and Michelle Reali and Linda Carper from the Huron Hospital | | | Youth Diversion Program, where Trauma is shown to at-risk youth. Genna Duberstein, director of Voices of the Past, Faces of the Present, joined the Q&A via videoconference, answering questions about her experience documenting the stories of Japanese internment camp survivors. | | The film festival’s Saturday screening featured a selection of student television programs and a Q&A videoconference with Bryan Fischer and Jake Beal, General Manager and Assistant General Manager of the University of Southern California’s TV station, Trojan Vision The screenings also featured student-produced work from institutions such as Brown University, the Asian Young Filmmakers Forum and the International Film School of Paris as well as work from Cleveland-area schools such as Oberlin College, John Carroll University and the University of Akron. The annual event promotes the exhibition of original and student-produced film to increasingly broader audiences, celebrates the artistic development of student video production, and encourages the exploration of innovative fiction and documentary storytelling; all enhanced by Internet technologies. |  | From Genna Guberstein’s Voices of the Past,
Faces of the Present | | | “OSTN is pleased to recognize the original, inspiring work of student filmmakers,” said Prashant Chopra, OSTN Chief Executive Officer. “We look forward to collaborating with Internet2 on future film festivals.” | | |
| For more information on receiving OSTN, contact Anthony Davis, Vice President of Membership Development, at anthony_davis@ostn.tv or 216-973-7564. |
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| | | | | | | About OSTN
OSTN is the leading provider of educational, foreign language, news, and entertainment IPTV content and services. OSTN features the only 24/7 worldwide channel exclusively devoted to student-produced programming. OSTN now is delivered to nearly 60 million subscribers at more than 4,500 university member campuses in 46 countries around the globe. OSTN can be viewed on televisions and personal computers. In North America, OSTN uses Internet2 and National LambdaRail’s advanced network to distribute programming to members. It uses JANET in the United Kingdom, ORION in Ontario, Canada, the GEANT2 Network, managed by DANTE, in the European Union. GEANT2 links to Asia via TEIN2, the Middle East & Africa via EuroMed, Latin and South America via ALICE, Mexico via CUDI and Australia via AARNet. For more information, visit www.ostn.tv.
About Internet2®
Internet2 is the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium. Led by the research and education community since 1996, Internet2 promotes the missions of its members by providing both leading-edge network capabilities and unique partnership opportunities that together facilitate the development, deployment and use of revolutionary Internet technologies. By bringing research and academia together with technology leaders from industry, government and the international community, Internet2 promotes collaboration and innovation that has a fundamental impact on the future of the Internet.
About Ingenuity Fest
Ingenuity Fest is a four-day celebration of art, music, dance, theater, and technology–including cutting-edge, art-and-technology collaborations and integrations. World-class artists from across the United States as well as Canada and Europe present original works along with the finest of Northeast Ohio’s performing and visual artists. Tickets are available through the Playhouse Square box office. For more information about the Third Annual Ingenuity Fest, call 216-589-9444, or visit www.ingenuitycleveland.com.
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