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COMPETITION

The tenth annual West Virginia Flash! Festival will take place on the campus of West Liberty University on Friday, April 23, 2010. Students from colleges and universities throughout West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Kentucky will compete for $2,000 in cash prizes in three different categories: Animation, Electronic Music, and Video. Sponsors included Apple Computer and the Pittsburgh Chapter of the AIGA.

CALL FOR ENTRIES DETAILS CAN BE ACCESSED BY CLICKING HERE.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE WINNING ENTRIES OF THE 2009 FESTIVAL.

For questions about entries contact:

James Haizlett

Associate Professor of Art

Festival Founder and Director

jhaizlett@westliberty.edu

SPECIAL GUEST WORKSHOPS

This year we are excited to announce a full day of free activities: including animation, electronic music, and video workshops. The activities will be capped off with the ever popular Flash! collegiate competition in the evening.

Animation presenter:

Robert St. Pierre, from Los Angeles, CA. Robert is currently employed as a Background Layout Artist at Walt Disney Television Animation where he is working on a new “Winnie the Pooh” feature film. Other projects include workbook/layout artist for the feature film “The Princess and the Frog” and Production Designer for the feature films “9″, “Mulan 2″ and “Lady and the Tramp 2.”

Electronic music presenter:

Jeff Essex, from San Francisco, CA. Jeff is Creative Director of Audiosync.com where he creates music, sound effects and voiceover for multimedia. His clients include Disney Online, Nick Online, shockwave.com, Beatnik, Sun Microsystems, digeo, Apple Computer, Red Sky Interactive, and @Home. He authored the book, “Multimedia Sound and Music Studio”, for Random House/Apple New Media, which won the prestigious Computer Press Award for Best Advanced How-To Book.

Video presenter:

Christian D’Andrea, from Washington DC. Christian is a video and film producer who has worked as VP of Production for Quentin Tarantino and Lawrence Bender’s Oscar-winning production company called A Band Apart, at Miramax. He has also produced a Discovery Channel documentary, worked as a Motion Picture Literary agent for International Creative Management, and recently sold a screenplay to Universal Studios.

VENUE

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SCHEDULE – All Events are free!

Thursday April 22, 2010 -

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM - Meet and Greet the guest presenters – Boyle Conference Room

Friday April 23, 2010 –

9:00 – 10:00 - Tours of West Liberty University’s Media Arts Center and the Nutting Art Gallery

10:00 – 11:00 - Welcome and Keynote address – (College Hall)

11:15 – 12:15 - Forum One – Electronic music, Animation and Video Concurrent Sessions – (Various locations in the Media Arts Center)

1:15 – 2:15 - Forum Two - Electronic music, Animation and Video Concurrent Sessions – (Various locations in the Media Arts Center)

2:30 – 4:30 – Professional hands on workshops in Electronic music, Animation and Video – (Various locations in the Media Arts Center)(Pre-registration needed)

5:30 – 7:00 - Electronic Music Jam Session in the Boyle Conference Room

– Alumni reunion in the Nutting Gallery

7:30 – 9:30 – Tenth annual West Virginia Flash! Festival – Collegiate Juried Competition – (College Hall)

INDIVIDUAL REGISTRATION

CLICK HERE TO PRE-REGISTER TO ATTEND ANY ASPECT OF THE FESTIVAL (Even though all activities are free, pre-registration helps us plan the event).

GROUP REGISTRATION

CLICK HERE TO PRE-REGISTER A GROUP OF 5 OR MORE INDIVIDUALS – All groups must pre-register.

Live Televised and Webcast Event

The collegiate competition will be broadcast live via WLTV to 55,000 cable customers. A live webcast will also be made available to viewers world-wide.

Winners of the festival will be able to link to a live video feed from their computers to the studio audience, providing all in attendance to see their immediate reactions to winning an award, and also to hear from them about their winning animations.

Highlights from the 2009 festival edited by Ty Crawford, a WLU Digital Media Design 2009 graduate may be seen by clicking below.