Rice Student Film Contest offers cash prizes

FROM RICE NEWS STAFF REPORTS

Rice students are a creative lot, and now that creativity could put some cash in their pockets.

Undergraduate and grad students who express themselves artistically through the lens of a video camera can submit their work to the Rice Student Film Contest and vie for $4,000 in prizes and the chance to have their film used as part of a Rice University marketing campaign.

Students are invited to create videos in categories of documentary, fiction, animation and short.

Prizes of $500 will be awarded best film in each category; $500 for the best overall film in the Rice-related film category; $500 for the People’s Choice Award, the most-popular film as selected by the audience; and a $1,000 grand prize for the best overall film selected by the judges.

Entries must be submitted in person on a pretested, functional DVD by March 16 to the Digital Media Center, Herring Hall, Room 129.

Winners will be announced at a public screening and awards ceremony April 6.

For the complete rules and ideas for topics, go to www.rice.edu/videocontest/index.html. For more information e-mail filmfestival@rice.edu or call Alex Schwent at 713-348-6783.

The contest is sponsored by Rice’s Office of Public Affairs, the Rice Media Center, Information Technology and the Digital Media Center.