Join us for the first ever, Ben Barber Film Festival. Showcase your talents and show everyone you have what it takes to be the next Spielberg.

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This is an annual competition open to all MISD students in the following grade level categories:

                                                K-2        ---            3-5             ---             6-8       ---            9-12

 

Films are requested to be under 5  minutes in duration.

 

Students Register at the BBIA Film Festival website and select their own theme to address a particular film category  - Narrative, Documentary, Music Video, PSA. Then, they submit their 2 to 5-minute film to the Film Festival email.

 

• Narrative - Tell a fictional story. Make sure it has a beginning middle and end. (Drama, Comedy, Horror, Action, etc..)

 

• Documentary -  non-fiction film intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical period.

 

• Music Video - Music must be original or something you own the copyright to. Use of copyrighted music will be disqualified.

 

• Public Service Announcement - A short film with the objective of raising awareness, changing public attitudes and behavior towards a social issue. These can be anywhere from :30 to 2:00

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• ***K-5 Only - Stop Motion - A short film that uses a series of pictures with the object moving slightly in each picture to give the illusion of motion.  Some stop motion movies include - Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, and  Coraline. 

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For more information contact Ryan Tuomey - ryantuomey@misdmail.org 

 

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