OneScreen’s Jury Shines A Bright Light
OneScreen Festival has shone a bright light on its first annual international short film & video competition by producing an all-star panel of jurors. This includes former official Obama White House videographer Arun Choudhary, movie critic Danny Bowes, actor/comedian Rick Overton, and long accomplished list of directors and creative executives from some of world’s leading ad agencies.
With so much interest in the new competition and entries surpassing first-year expectations, the submission deadline has been extended through 12:00 Midnight, Friday September 21, 2012.
OneScreen Festival has shone a bright light on its first annual international short film & video competition by producing an all-star panel of jurors. This includes former official Obama White House videographer Arun Choudhary, movie critic Danny Bowes, actor/comedian Rick Overton, and long accomplished list of directors and creative executives from some of world’s leading ad agencies.
With so much interest in the new competition and entries surpassing first-year expectations, the submission deadline has been extended through 12:00 Midnight, Friday September 21, 2012.
The OneScreen jury panel (in alphabetical order) is:
- Leslie Ali - Freelance Director & Creative Director - New York
- Danila Boer - Creative Director, BBDO - New York
- Danny Bowes - Critic, Movies by Bowes - New York
- Carl Byrd - Director, Carl Byrd & Company - New York
- Ray Chan - Executive Creative Director, Publicis - Beijing
- Pat Chatmon - Director, Double7 Images - New York
- Arun Choudhary - SVP, Revolution Messaging & former official White House Videographer - Washington
- John Dukakis - SVP & Director Branded Entertainment, Hill Holiday - Boston
- Sean Dunne - Director, NONFICTION - New York
- Nick Gaul - VP/Executive Producer, BBDO - New York
- John Godsey - Director of Branded Content, VML - Kansas City
- Ron Honsa - Director, Moving Pictures - New York
- Margaret Johnson - Executive Creative Director, Goodby Silverstein & Partners - San Francisco
- Julie Katz - VP/Executive Producer Content & Development, BBDO - New York
- Matt Murphy - Creative Director, 72 and Sunny - Los Angeles
- Peter Nicholson - Freelance, former Executive Creative Director, JWT - New York
- Rick Overton - Actor/Comedian/Writer - Los Angeles
- Jaime Robinson - Creative Director, Pereira & O’Dell - San Francisco
- Sam Saunders - Executive Creative Director, Young Discovers Club - New York
- Steven Schudlich - Director of Exhibitions, University of Michigan, School of Art & Design - Detroit
- Calle Sjoenell - Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy Integrated Content, Team Detroit - New York
- Chuck Tso - Freelance Art Director - New York
- Loren Victory - Senior Vice President/Director of - Detroit
- Faris Yakob - Chief Innovation Officer, MDC Partners - New York
More creative film, video, and advertising industry professionals have expressed interest in joining the prestigious OneScreen jury panel and new judges will be announced at a later date, along with details of the upcoming awards ceremony later this fall. Judging will take place over a two-week period starting late October. Finalists will be notified by e-mail. Winners in the competition categories Best Director, Best Cinematographer, Best Editor, Best Script and Best of Show will be honored the beginning of November at a special awards presentation and screening to be held in New York City
Produced by The One Club, OneScreen was conceived for filmmakers of today and tomorrow who want to showcase their work to the organization’s established global audience. To be eligible for entry, films and videos must be 10 minutes or less in run time. Entry categories include Narrative, Documentary, Music Video, Animation and Branded Content. All entries must be submitted online at www.onescreen.org in MP4 or MOV H.264 format. Entry fees are $25.00 per submission. Students $20.00 per submission. All non-English films must contain English sub-titles. All finalists grant The One Club the rights to use their films and/or videos in press materials for promotional purposes. Films and/or videos selected as winners become part of The One Club archive library.
“Our new OneScreen Festival was designed to encourage the video and filmmakers of today and tomorrow from across the globe to submit their creative work for viewing in front of our well-established international audience,” says Kevin Swanepoel, president at The One Club. “All entries will be judged by the talented members of our jury and winning shorts will be viewed by our eager global online audience of creatives.”
The OneScreen competition was first launched in July at the website www.onescreen.org, designed by Sid Lee Toronto, OneScreen sponsor.
For more information about how to enter the OneScreen Short Film Festival, please visit www.onescreen.org
