This promo was conceived, shot, and edited by the grade nine film students after six weeks of classes…we look forward to what they will be able to do four years from now. Students interested in applying to the Film Program at The Etobicoke School of the Arts should go to the school’s website. We offer a full four year program in film production and film studies in conjunction with a strong academic focus. …Come join this amazing group of visual storytellers as they remake the world in their image(s)
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Last Spring Sean Cunningham and Justin Hartough were classmates in Cinema 451: Advanced Film and Video Making. There in the Binghamton University lecture hall basement, the two practiced their craft with dreams of breaking into the film industry. Just five months later both are prize-winning filmmakers. Separately and unknowingly, Cunningham and Hartough entered a competition to find a new “I LOVE NY” TV commercial and both were recently chosen from a panel of judges that included Hollywood heavyweights such as actress and writer Tina Fey, director Doug Liman and actor and filmmaker Philip Seymour Hoffman. Cunningham, who graduated in May 2008, won the grand prize with his 60-second film titled “Discover a Different NY”. Hartough, a senior who plays an active role with Binghamton Television (BTV), won the Student Filmmaker Award with Crab Meadow, a short film inspired by a beach located in his hometown of Huntington LI. “I wanted to show New York as more than just New York City, but New York as just a beautiful place,” Hartough said. The idea was to create a short film that would powerfully reflect the “I Love NY” theme. Like Crab Meadow, Cunningham’s film does not include a single shot of the Big Apple, but instead captures the natural beauty of Upstate New York. It opens at a backyard graduation party, where a young man dressed in a Binghamton University cap and gown is asked what he plans to do now. The response – “I’m going to New York (city)”. The film then takes us …
Video Rating: 5 / 5