The Broadcast Education Association Announces the 2012 Winners of BEA Best of Festival King Foundation Awards Ceremony
Washington, D.C. – Sixteen faculty and student works have been chosen to receive the BEA Best of Festival King Foundation awards. Best of Festival winners will be honored at the 10th Annual BEA Best of Festival King Foundation Awards Ceremony in Las Vegas on Monday, April 16, 2012. During the ceremony, recipients will be recognized with a high-definition screening of their winning project, a cash award of $1,000 from the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation, and a gift of editing software from Avid Technologies. The ceremony will be held at the Las Vegas Hotel during the Broadcast Education Association’s annual convention and exhibition. The Best of Festival winners for 2012 were selected from a pool of almost 1,200 entries, from 143 colleges and universities in the following competition categories: audio, video, documentary, interactive multimedia, news, scriptwriting, sports, and two-year and small colleges. The BEA Festival of Media Arts is an international refereed exhibition of faculty creative activities and a national showcase for student work. The Festival provides a venue for exhibition of winning submissions, including recognition of project authors, through showcase and awards sessions held during BEA’s annual convention in Las Vegas. The Festival seeks to enhance and extend creative activities, teaching, and professional standards in broadcasting and other forms of electronically mediated communication. For a complete list of winners for all of the Festival of Media Arts competitions, please visit http://www.beafestival.org/ 2012 Best of Festival Winners Faculty Audio Competition Jan Thompson, Southern Illinois University; The Tragedy of Bataan (Long-Form Production)
Student Audio Competition Tony Sarrecchia and Breanne Ahearn, Kennesaw State University; Harry Strange, ‘The Blink of An Eye’ (Comedy or Drama Category) Faculty Documentary Competition Eugene Martin, University of North Texas; The Anderson Monarchs (Long Form)
Student Documentary Competition Samantha Lloyd, Lisa Blanco, Arielle Horsch & Angela Ortega, Arizona State University; Tipping the Scales (Long Form Video Category)
Faculty Interactive Media Competition Sarah Gibson, George Fox University; Steve Taylor’s Digital Clone (Documentary/Promotional/Informational)
Student Interactive Multimedia Competition Graham Dubow, Alexandra Budenz, Vanessa Castillo, Nicole Collazo, Iku Kawachi, Daniel Osiason, Marlena Skrobe, Rachel Steinhauser, Morgan Eileen Visalli & Amanda Zacharkiewicz, University of Miami; Prescribing Addiction (Group Authorship Projects)
Faculty News Competition Bernard R. McCoy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Catastrophe on the Skywalks: 30 Years After the Fall (Radio Hard News Reporting)
Student News Competition NewsWatch Staff, Arizona State University; Cronkite NewsWatch 12-1-11 (Television Newscast – airing 4 or 5 days per week Category)
Jenne Anderson, Brigham Young University; School District Budgeting (Television Hard News Reporting Category)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Carolina Connection, 12/3/11 (Radio Newscast Category)
Student 2-Year/Small College Competition Anthony Troli, McKinley Pollock, Marianna Pignotti & Chelsea Stark-Jones, University of La Verne; Folk Music Center (Video/Broadcast Production Category)
Faculty Scriptwriting Competition Jim Goodman & Ed Simpson, High Point University; Connected (Short Subject – 15-35 pages)
Scriptwriting Competition Jay Harris Gard, Tulane University; Fetch (Original TV Series Pilot (hour or 1/2 hour long)
Student Sports Competition Ben Wagner, Chris Renkel & Joe Sailer; Ball State University; Ball State Sports Link: Tarblooder Mission (TV Sports Story / Feature / Show Element/Segment or News Program Category)
Faculty Video Competition Dean Yamada, Biola University; East of Berlin (Narrative Video Category) Student Video Competition E.R. Womelsduff & Emily Michel Ford, Azusa Pacific University; JAY (Narrative Video Category)
The Broadcast Education Association is the professional association for professors, industry professionals and graduate students interested in teaching and research related to electronic media and multimedia enterprises. There are currently more than 2,500 individual and institutional members world wide. Visit www.beaweb.org for more information.
