Conference News

AND THE FINALISTS ARE...

SHORT FILM CONTEST

Best Short Film Nominees

Leave Me
Forgive Me
The Cleansing

Best Actor Nominees

Chad Allen, The Cleansing
Travis Ammons, Forgive Me
Ryan Dunlap, Leave Me

Best Actress Nominees

Jaclyn Hicks, Within
Francine Locke, Family Law
Claire Slavovsky, Double Minded

 

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY CONTEST

When Mercy Backfires by Karen Aaker
Deposition by Michael Murray
Hunks by Jim Shores

ADAPTATION SCREENPLAY CONTEST

Maria Lennon for The Kite Flyer, adaptation of the novel The Christmas Kite written by Gail Gaymer Martin

LeAnn Morris for The Dragon and The Raven, adaptation of the novel The Dragon and The Raven written by G. A. Henty

Mike Parker for Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, adaptation of the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray written by Oscar Wilde

Rusty Whitener for Allah's Fire, adaptation of the novel Allah's Fire written by Gayle Roper and Chuck Holton

The judging was very tight for the Adaptation Contest, so we have four finalists.

CROSS WIND PRODUCTIONS HIGH SCHOOL SCREENPLAY CONTEST

And the winner is...

Grand Prize:
The Guardian
By Kelsie Kullman

First Place:
Sleeping Rough
By James Reynov

Second Place
Paul vs Saul
By Paul Carrick Stewart

Third Place
A Night's Influence
By Zak Hartong

The Grand Prize winner receives the full production of her script.

AND since all 4 of these scripts are wonderful we also plan on filming one scene from the First, Second & Third Place Winners! (Subject to our time availability and release forms from all 4 writers).

LOGO CONTEST

Thank you to everyone who entered the Gideon Media Arts Conference & Film Festival 1st annual logo contest. The talent and creativity of all those who entered, made our decisions very difficult for us to choose. But after much deliberation, we've made our selection.

Congratulations to all the winners! Yes, we said winners! And we given the reasons why they were chosen.

Kevin Tucker-This entry was a no fuss approach. Simple, concise, and easy to read at a glance. Kevin also made it possible to alter the logo slightly to distinguish between the conference track of the Gideon and the Film Festival events. This will be used as a letterhead, hopefully on t-shirts for Gideon 2010 and used as Rodney's profile pic for facebook, twitter, etc. At times this logo will be used in cross-promotions with the 168 Film Project and the Biola Media Conference.

Terenia Autrey-Terenia's was bold in color and depicted all the elements of our Gideon tracks. Although it will be hard to tell as Lori uses this for her facebook, twitter, etc. pics, this entry shows Gideon going into battle as well as the symbols for theater, film, music, writing, etc. But one will appreciate all of these elements when this is used as our program book cover as well as the cross-promotions mentioned above. 

Analicia Davis-Analicia was an intern in 2008, a Captain to assist the directors of the intern program in 2009, and has now had her logo chosen for all intern correspondence for Gideon 2010. She was clever in how she used each letter in the name Gideon to depict all the arts/tracks that will be offered next year.

Kevin, Terenia and Analicia will have their conference fees waived as they attend the Gideon Media Arts Conference & Film Festival for 2010. Over a $300 value! Congratulations again to these three! As soon as we get all the images in a jpg format, we'll post them on the website.

We hope to have this contest annually, so start thinking about a logo for Gideon 2011...