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Best of Festival Ceremony
Student Winners Celebration – Festival of Media Arts & Signature Station Winners
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2025 Faculty Best of Festival Winners
BoF Faculty Audio:
Arizona Broadway Theater – Show Trailer: Million Dollar Quartet;
Phil Wilson, Huntington University Arizona
(Sound Engineering and Design Category)
BoF Faculty Documentary:
Without Arrows;
Delwin Fiddler Jr., Jonathan Olshefski & Elizabeth Day, Rowan University
(Documentary Feature Category)
BoF Faculty Film & Video:
Spencer’s Place;
Jonathan Vinson,
Huntington University Arizona
(Commerical or PSA Category)
BoF Faculty Interactive Multimedia:
The Mental Game Choose Your Own Adventure Edutainment;
Kaley Martin, DeAndra Hodge, Scott Parrott, Shaheen Kanthawala & Bree Holtz, University of Montevallo, University of Alabama & Michigan State University
(Interactive Reality Category)
BoF Faculty News:
Full Circle;
Mike Castellucci, Michigan State University (Television Feature News Reporting Category)
BoF Faculty Scriptwritng:
L.O.T.U.S.;
Nathan Patton, Missouri State University (Original Television Series Pilot Category)
BoF Faculty Sports:
Do Right: The Stallings Standard;
Chandra Clark & Michael Bruce, University of Alabama
(Long Form Sports Video
Category)
2025 Student Best of Festival Winners
BoF Student Audio:
Animated Soundscape Recreation for “Rango”;
Brandon Cericola & Kate Rivera, Elon University
(Multimedia Sound Design)
BoF Student Documentary:
Unseen in Plain Sight;
Rae’Dawn Rebert, Abigail Newlon, Samantha DiFiore & Juan Manosalva, Midwestern State
University
(Short-Form Documentary)
BoF Student Film & Video:
Converse;
Brennan Mahokey, Rachel Kozlowski, Jack Boyle, Louie Light, Marcell Taylor & Jess Santi, Michigan State
University
(Spots)
BoF Student Film & Video:
A Film About Toby;
Scotty Strout, Lucas Booth & Lilly Stover, University of Oklahoma
(Narrative)
BoF Student Interactive Multimedia:
Sub[culture];
Vivian Barrett, Joshua Kreiter, Keerthi Morisetty & Alexis Morton, Michigan State University
(Emerging
Media & Technology)
BoF Student News – Radio:
‘Larks and ravens’: a new spin on contra dancing;
Sierra Pfiefer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(Radio Feature)
BoF Student News – Television:
A Special Singer;
Juan Carlos Chaoui, University of Florida
(Television Short Feature)
BoF Student Newscast:
First at Five;
First at Five Staff, University of Florida
(Television Newscast (4/5 days per week)
BoF Student Scriptwriting:
21st Century Heretic;
Alex Isbell, New York University
(Original Television Series Pilot Category)
BoF Student Sports:
B12 Hype Reel;
Wilson Gustaveson, Brigham Young University
(Promotional Video/Tease/PSA)
BoF Two-Year Colleges:
Ghoul-Be-Gone;
Viviana Bivian, San Bernardino Valley College (Narrative)
BoF Graduate Student:
Healing Hands;
Jordan Ochel, Baylor University
(Narrative)
2024 School Rankings Based on Student Creative Achievements
(2025 Rankings Released in April, 2025)
The 2024 rankings of schools are based on the creative achievement of their students. The rankings, which began in 2022, are founded on the results from the BEA Festival of Media Arts. The BEA Festival is the preeminent international media competition focused on student and faculty creative endeavors. In the last five years alone, over 7,000 student creative works were submitted from BEA’s more than 300 member institutions around the globe. Entries go through a blind-juried review in the following competitions: Audio, Documentary, Film & Video, Interactive Multimedia & Emerging Technologies, News, Scriptwriting, and Sports.
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