Inaugural film festival showcases use of digital media at UTSA
Share this Story(Oct. 15, 2014) -- Film it. Show it. Teach it.
This is the mantra of UTSA's inaugural Educational Experience Film Festival (E2F2). The event, sponsored by the Office of Educational Technology, will be at 7 p.m. Oct. 15, at the Buena Vista Theater at the Downtown Campus.
The goal of this new event is to capture the innovative and artistic use of digital media as a teaching tool at the university. Distinguished senior lecturer and celebrated author/filmmaker John Philip Santos will serve as the festival's master of ceremonies.
"Students who are arriving today… have been fully immersed and ready to use this media in their academic study," Santos said. "What's really shifted in the terms of the ground underneath the university is the capacity of students to utilize this media, which I think is an underutilized capacity."
E2F2 received more than120 submissions from UTSA faculty and students. The festival will screen the best videos in five categories: Best Instructional Innovation, Best Research Communication, Best Documentary of Interview, Best Student Project and Best Vine Video.
The festival's emphasis is not on the submissions boasting top-caliber production value, but articulating a coherent, meaningful message. The films will be measured by their intellectual substance, professional principles of design, technical functionality and overall complexity.
The E2F2's purpose is not so much to create a film or media culture at UTSA, but to showcase the one that already exists.
"I think the film festival represents the possibility of really debuting this unspoken, unnoticed community at UTSA," said Santos. "A lot of digital storytelling is already happening in seminars, classes and in the educational context.
"This is a way of manifesting that for the community and demonstrating what's possible, and maybe giving first exposure to a student who may make some really important work in the years to come."
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