The Broadcast Education Association Announces the 2013 Winners of BEA Best of Festival King Foundation Awards Ceremony
Washington, D.C. – Seventeen 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 11th Annual BEA Best of Festival King Foundation Awards Ceremony in Las Vegas on Monday, April 8, 2013. 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 students will receive a gift of editing software from Sony. 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 2013 were selected from a pool of almost 1,200 entries, from over 150 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/
2013 Best of Festival Winners
Faculty Audio Competition
Don Connelly & Bruce H. Frazier, Western Carolina University; Dracula(Long Form Production Category)
Student Audio Competition
Jessica E. Paratore, Appalachian State University; Clogging: History of an Appalachian Dance Form (Educational Program Category)
Faculty Documentary Competition
Larry Foley, Hayot Tuychiev, & Dale Carpenter, University of Arkansas ; The Art of Crystal Bridges (Short Form Video or Film Documentary Category)
Student Documentary Competition
Sam Smartt & Chris Zaluski, Documentary Film Program of Wake Forest University; Wagonmasters (Long Form Video Category)
Faculty Interactive Media Competition
Dana Coester, West Virginia University; Mobile Main Street (Entertainment & Emerging Technologies Category)
Student Interactive Multimedia Competition
2012 Powering a Nation Team: Jon Kasbe, Kelly Izlar, Joshua Davis, Dylan Gilroy, Stephanie Bullins, Kelly McHugh, Spencer Bakalar, Cyrus Huneycutt & Vanessa Patchett, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; 100gallons.org (Large Team Category)
Faculty News Competition
Ray Fanning, University of Montana; Preventing Wrongful Convictions- False Eyewitness Identification (Radio Hard News Reporting Category)
Student News Competition
The Spring 2012 Centre County Report Staff, Penn State University; The Centre County Report – 11/02/12 (Television Newscast – airing 3 days per week or less – Category)
Grace Joyal, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Cats find refuge with Pittsboro artist (Radio Feature Reporting Category)
Dan Neligh, Arizona State University; More Arizonans Traveling to Mexico For Dental Work (Television Feature Reporting Category)
Student 2-Year/Small College Competition
Brian Roma, Christopher Rhoden, Kathleen Kelly, David M. Weiss, Jim Christensen & Heather Roma, Metropolitan Community College; Shes Cool (Video/Broadcast Production Category)
Faculty Scriptwriting Competition
Micheal McAlexander, Frostburg State University; Space Race (Feature/TV Hour Category)
Student Scriptwriting Competition
Liam Goulding, San Jose State University; Rasputin’s Resurrection (Feature Category)
Student Sports Competition
Matt Szymanski, Ally Weck & Justin Haugesag, St. Cloud State University; Husky Productions: St. Cloud State vs. Nebraska Omaha (TV Sports Event Production Category)
Faculty Video Competition
Dwight Cammeron & Shelby Hadden , University of Alabama; April’s Hero (Mixed Video -Teacher/Student Co-Production Category)
Student Video Competition
Jonathan Park, Blake Gaytan, Kristina Ivanova, Cutler Gray, California State University Northridge; CSUN Notable Alumni – Mark Langill (Instructional/Educational Video Category)
Brook Linder, Missouri State University; Ghoul School (Narrative Video Category)
About the BEA Convention
BEA’s annual convention is held in conjunction with NAB Show in Las Vegas every spring. Co-located next door at the Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, BEA’s annual convention attracts 1,200 educators and students with 200 sessions, events, research panels, technology workshops and an exhibit hall, making BEA NAB Show’s largest conference partner.
About the Broadcast Education Association
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.