BEA Announces the 2014 “Best of Festival” King Foundation Awards and BEA Festival of Media Arts Award Winners
Washington, D.C. – Eighteen faculty and student works have been chosen to receive the BEA Best of Festival King Foundation Awards – the top awards given during BEA’s Festival of Media Arts, a competitive festival open to BEA faculty and student members.
Best of Festival winners will be honored at the 12th Annual BEA Best of Festival King Foundation Awards Ceremony in Las Vegas on Monday, April 7, 2014, as part of BEA2014, BEA’s annual convention. During the ceremony, recipients will be recognized with a specialized screening of their winning project and a cash award of $1,000 from the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation. The 2014 Best of Festival winners were selected from a pool of over 1,350 entries, from over 150 colleges and universities in the following competitions: audio, video, documentary, interactive multimedia, news, scriptwriting, sports, and two-year and small colleges. For a complete list of winners for all of the Festival of Media Arts competitions, please visit http://www.beafestival.org/
2014 Best of Festival Winners Faculty Audio Competition Emily Hughes Corio, West Virginia University; Fish Return to a Mining Country River (Short-Form Production Category)
Student Audio Competition Nancy Salem, The American University in Cairo; Intricate Design: The Life and Times of an Egyptian Fashion Designer (Educational Category) Faculty Documentary Competition H.D. Motyl, Southern Illinois University; Cowboy Christmas (Long Form Category)
Student Documentary Competition Jaclyn Edmonson, Middle Tennessee State University; Sbocciare (Short Form Video Category)
Faculty Interactive Multimedia Competition Helen Jackson & Adrian Hickey, University of Ulster; History Space (Entertainment & Emerging Technologies Category)
Student Interactive Multimedia Competition Kaitlyn Hammack, Robert Mathis& Zack Owen, James Madison University; Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance (Large Team Category)
Faculty News Competition Hagit Limor, University of Cincinnati,; Ford Spark Plug Investigation (Television Hard News Reporting Category)
Student News Competition Matt Rascon, Brigham Young University; The Road (Television Feature Reporting Category)
Cooper Rummell, Arizona State University; Maricopa County Jail Flags (Radio Hard News Reporting Category) Spring 2013 Staff, The Pennsylvania State University; Centre County Report (Television Newscast Category)
Faculty Scriptwriting Competition Kevin Corbett, Central Michigan University; Cooper’s Passage (Feature/TV Hour Category) Student Scriptwriting Competition Evan Simmons, University of Georgia; Rogues (Original TV Series Pilot Category) Faculty Sports Competition Michael Bruce, University of Alabama; Houndstooth: Tradition. Community. Loyalty. (Short Form Sports Video Category)
Student Sports Competition Josh Birch, University of Maryland; Maryland Bike Safety (TV Sports / Story / Feature Category)
Student 2-Year/Small College Competition Thomas M. Doherty, Rock Valley College; The White Room (Video / Broadcast Production Category)
Faculty Video Competition Kevin Burke, University of Cincinnati; The 2012 Gold Rush Expedition Race Documentary (Mixed Video – Teacher/Student Co-Production Category) Student Video Competition Jenna Lyter & Javeon Butler, Northern Arizona University; The Campaign for NAU (Promotional Video Category) Robert Krakower & Jon Magram, San Jose State University; Always Learning (Narrative Video Category)
