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KAIROS PRIZE - FINAL DEADLINE APPROACHES!
The 5TH Annual $50,000 Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays Announced!
Supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation, MOVIEGUDE® announces the 5th Annual Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays. The primary purpose of the prize is to further the influence of moral and spiritual values within the film and [...]

The People’s Choice Awards (PCA) and American Film Market (AFM) have teamed to create an unprecedented Favorite Film Pitch contest. The Favorite Film Pitch Contest is an opportunity for writers and filmmakers to get their pitches in front of producers, distributors and, in a unique twist, the voting public.
Pitches will be recorded live November 7-10 [...]

Spring 2010 is just around the corner. Get ready for some exciting new classes and some incredible news.

A new class has been added to the catalog and the Fall 09 schedule: COMM 329: Digital Audio/Video Principles.  This class is the new pre-requisite for all Production courses and is replacing COMM 343: Digital Video Production and COMM 274: Digital Audio Production.
If have not taken either Digital Video Production or Digital Audio and you [...]

Students Cody Crawford, Josh Hamilton and Scott Houston have received $1,000, an all expenses paid trip to the National Geographic Explorers Symposium and will have their PSA air on the National Geographic Channel. The students won this award by submitting a class assignment in Animation to the National Geographic PSA contest. The final [...]

Landmark Theatres, the nation’s largest theatre chain dedicated primarily to independent film, is a recognized leader in the industry for providing consistently diverse and entertaining film. Ted Mundorff will be speaking to the Film Production class about acquisition and distribution of independent films on Monday, April 20th at 1pm.

Three Cinema / Digital Media courses will be unveiled in their first summer offering at Vanguard University. The last three weeks of May, from May 11-May 29, the following courses will be offered to all students, alumni and members of the community:

Comm 273: Visual Technology (3 units) ::: Learn design theory in all aspects [...]

Guys and Dolls, winner of five 1951 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, set a Broadway Musical standard that is still emulated today. It is a perfectly blended combination of story, characters, lyrics and music. Guys and Dolls premiered the now legendary characters of Sarah Brown, the upright but uptight missionary, who is out to reform [...]

Film Production helps students understand story development, the pitch process, fundraising, producing, cinematography, non-linear editing for film, sound design, and scoring in order to create one 16mm color film where each class member serves a particular crew position. All students pitched to an industry film panel on Wednesday and crew positions were chosen. [...]

FEBRUARY 27, 28, MARCH 3 II More than three decades after two of them won Academy Awards for Best Picture, the films of director Francis Ford Coppola’s classic THE GODFATHER Trilogy can once again be [...]