THE MURPHY CHALLENGE 2011 And The Winners Are:

CENTENNIAL COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARD

$500, NHL Network behind-the-scenes tour, $150 in Vistek Gift Certificates

WINNER: Team 15, Scene 6: Alex Kean, Mark Jones, Mitchell Kennan, Tarah Bleier, Mauricio Araujo

CTV TECHNICAL OPERATIONS AWARD

$750, Autodesk Maya Software Power Session

WINNER: Team 3, Scenes 9, 10, 15, 16, Cassie Cassibo, Jamie Rock, Brennan Hehn

DENNIS MURPHY AWARD

Deluxe Post Production Services (1 day of audio mix OR color correct) AND

Marble Media Skatoony tour

WINNER: Team 1, Scene 2, Jui Desai, Terence Chow, Tyler Byron, Cody McIntyre, Patrick House, Preston Leung

DEAN’S AWARD

Selection of film/video books

WINNER: Team 9, Scene 17, Colin Bennett, Irma Duplessis, Abdi Aden, Franklyn Phillip, Mahmud Moral, Zach Murillo, Winston Kangwa

FACULTY AWARD, YOU GOT WHAT IT TAKES

California’s Wings, Fries and Pitcher, Global TV Gift Bag

WINNER: Team 12, Scene 23, 24, Azhia Julien, Andrew Casement, Abdul Malek, Sasha Akbari, Derek Walker

BEST PHOTOGRAPHY

Merkle Camera Back Pack

WINNER: Mark Jones

LOST IN SPACE AWARD

Space TV tour and coffee with Space hosts

And

CCSAI PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD

$500 +, Bell TIFF Light Box Tim Burton Exhibit

WINNER: Team 21, Scene 20, Chris Paddison, Ellis Berman, Adam Rizvi, Samer Gulec

FACULTY AWARDS FOR EFFORT, PERSEVERANCE AND HARD WORK

Discovery Channel TV Gift Bag

WINNER: Team 24, Scenes 11, 12, 21, 22 Sheren McDonald, Vamsi Kurli, Feryck Degale, Tamas Pal

Optix Gift Bag

WINNER: Team 16: Scene 30, 31, Celestina Gomez, Michael Johnsen, Stanley Patrao, Bryan Hughes, Farzana Shammi

Shaw TV Gift Bag

WINNER: Group 23, Scene 13,14, Alex Ferriman, Shimon Nelson, Ray Josef, Wayne Morales, Taylor Sullivan

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NFB Seeks Smart Phone App for Youth Engagement

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has put out a call to all
digital producers and interactive creators to submit a proposal for a
new app for smartphones or portable media devices, as part of its
participation in MIPTV's Content 360 Competition.

The app is to be developed as a companion or standalone product to one
of the NFB's recent documentaries, Sexy Inc. and Staying Real, to
explore sexual stereotypes and hypersexualization of preteens and
teens in media.

http://tinyurl.com/4kps289

Ford Foundation Launches $50 Million Fund for Next-Generation Documentary Filmmakers

NEW YORK, 19 January 2011 — One day before the start of the Sundance
Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute, and its gathering
of independent filmmakers from around the world, the Ford Foundation
today announced a five-year, $50 million initiative to help find and
support a new generation of filmmakers whose works address urgent
social issues.

The new initiative, called JustFilms, will invest $10 million a year
over the next five years to support and expand the community of
filmmakers and mediamakers around the world focused on creating
documentaries with passion and purpose, but who often lack funding to
realize their visions or reach audiences.

"With the growth of the Web and social networks, the potential global
audience for filmed content with a social conscience has exploded,"
said Luis Ubiñas, president of the Ford Foundation. "We want JustFilms
to support visionary filmmakers from around the world to create works
on urgent social issues, and help them reach and engage audiences."

JustFilms will build on the foundation's longtime support for
documentaries, including such landmark productions as "Eyes on the
Prize," "State of Fear" and "Why Democracy," among scores of others.
It will also leverage the foundation's global network of 10 regional
offices to identify and lift new talent from around the world and to
strengthen emerging communities of documentary filmmakers.

the rest at:

http://www.fordfoundation.org/newsroom/news-from-ford/443

Murphy Challenge Kicks Off

This year's Murphy Challenge kicked off last night (Jan. 19) with a bang. Our students are adapting Darkness At The Stroke O f Noon, by Dennis Murphy (one of the originators of the Challenge). Fifteen groups of students have been assigned sections from the mystery novel and the end result, a crazy patchwork of the scenes, will represent the whole story once they are strung together for the screening next Wednesday Jan. 26 at 6pm in the CCC TV studio. See you all there.

Get Involved Winners

The winner for this past semester's Get Involved project is SNEHA by Farzana Shammi and Adam Rizvi. Congratulations! Their story will be featured on TVO's website. Farzana and Adam have been invited to work with Q Media's editor to polish their story even more. It's already a great story and can only get better!

Q Media's CEO Dorothy Engelman was delighted working with Centennial B&F students and very impressed with many of the stories. Besides Sneha, another ten of the stories produced in the Doc and News Production class will be featured on the Get Involved site, www.getinvolved.ca.

All of the stories will be available on centennialondemand.com later this month.