Count Basie Theatre Announces PROJECT FX New Jersey's Statewide Student Film Festival Presented By Bank Of America
PROJECT FX, the Count Basie Theatre's statewide student film competition presented by Bank Of America, is live at www.projectFXbasie.com. Starting now, students enrolled at any New Jersey HIGH SCHOOL or college can visit the site to learn about entering the competition, with an internship with Sony Pictures Classics at stake as the contest's grand prize.
On April 19, 2015, the Count Basie Theatre will proudly host the daylong PROJECT FX Festival, which will include workshops with film industry professionals, plus a showcase of the top vote getters in both the HIGH SCHOOL and college categories with the winning film acting as an "opener" for a Basie screening of an upcoming Sony Pictures Classics release.
PROJECT FX is open to students enrolled in any New Jersey HIGH SCHOOL or college as of September 1, 2014. Students have until February 1, 2015 to enter their films, which will then be judged upon by a panel of regional and industry-wide experts
Entries into the PROJECT FX competition are limited to ten minutes, and must have been produced in 2013 or later by students enrolled full-time in any New Jersey HIGH SCHOOL or college institution. Interested students will upload their films to either YouTube.com or Vimeo.com, and then fill out the official festival entry form at www.projectFXbasie.com. A $25 non-refundable fee is required to enter the competition.
From there, a subcommittee and cast of master adjudicators will critique entries using a point system to rate each film's storyline, cinematography, technical aspects, sound and editing. In March 2015, the ten highest vote-getters in both the HIGH SCHOOL and college categories will be posted on the PROJECT FX Facebook page at www.facebook.com/projectFXbasie, where a separate tally of "Likes" and "Shares" will also factor into final scoring.
Full competition rules, regulations, prerequisites and scoring guidelines can be found at www.projectfxbasie.com.
SOURCE Count Basie Theatre
