Many Thanks! Big Screen Showcase Winners Online

Hello Everyone:

I hope you had a rather splendid holiday weekend.

I would like to give a special thanks to Doug Renwick of CopiaGroup and Derek Howard. These two have made it the best year ever for our web site.

Our web master, Derek Howard, released a new version of the site TheYoungMediaMakers.org that contains a NEWS / blog section and a variable access display of all the winning entries of the 2007 Big Screen Showcase. Please go to TheYoungMediaMakers.org and enjoy the success of our youth.

Derek is a senior at Fortuna Union High School. He developed TheYoungMediaMakers.org in his elective computer applications class, "Students Working In The Community of Humboldt" (SWITCH).

The site is supported by HostGIS, a CopiaGroup company. Doug also helped to design the entry and release forms. I can't wait to experience the newest movies coming in for our spring festival.

Enjoy.

Sincerely,
Barbara Domanchuk

Friday, February 2, 2007

News Article in the Beacon

A News Article by The Humboldt Beacon.

  Young movie makers ages 8 to 22 are invited to enter their films in The Young Media Makers seventh annual Big Screen Showcase. The showcase provides an opportunity for youth to have their movies viewed by the general public, learn more about their career opportunities and talk with media teachers and other filmmakers about future projects.

   All movies that are submitted by the deadline, March 14, will be eligible to compete for prizes in the selected category, and for the grand prize of having the movie go to Chicago.

  Winners from the Big Screen Showcase are automatically entered into the Chicago Film Festival. Last year, three movies from the 2005 Big Screen Showcase were selected for screening at the Chicago Film Festival. This is quite an honor, as films are solicited from all over the world and only 581 submissions were accepted worldwide.

   Of those 581 movies, Humboldt County-based Chisa Hughes won a Certificate of Merit for her first movie, “Working to Survive Behind Barbed Wire: The Nisei Interned.” Her documentary portrays the living conditions for Japanese Americans in the internment camps set up in the United States during World War II.

  Entries should be submitted on mini DV tape or DVD and can be no longer than 10 minutes in length. Submit them to The Young Media Makers Big Screen Showcase, 790 Riverside Park Road, Carlotta, CA 95528.

  Categories include commercial, educational, documentary, animation, experimental and narrative trailer.

  The competition will commence on May 5 at College of the Redwoods Forum Theater, 7351 Tompkins Hill Road, Eureka.

  For more information, call Barbara Domanchuk at 768-1738 or go to www.TheYoungMediaMakers.org.