Idyllwild Arts Academy Announces

(May 12, 2004)  The Moving Pictures department of Idyllwild Arts Academy holds it’s 3^rd Annual Screening of Student Films on Friday, May 28 at 7:30 pm in the Idyllwild Arts Foundation Theatre and Saturday, May 29 at 7:30 pm in the Rustic Theatre in Idyllwild. 

Moving Pictures, one of seven majors at Idyllwild Arts Academy, teaches young filmmakers all aspects of filmmaking – screenwriting, storyboarding, cinematography, lighting, acting and directing among the many required disciplines.  The students produce their film from the first day of school working with their instructors to craft the story.  Ultimately the young filmmakers audition fellow students to play roles, may enlist a student composer to write an original scores and even have Idyllwild Arts music majors perform them for the soundtrack. 

The student films will be entered in the “André Sobel Scholarship” and the “André Sobel Film Awards” competition. André Sobel was a remarkable young man whose natural dignity, unconventional sense of humor and promising future ended just one year after being diagnosed with a brain tumor.  He was 17. 

In honor of André, who was accepted at NYU for film, and in support of young filmmakers in the Moving Pictures Department at Idyllwild Arts Academy, the André Sobel River of Life Foundation has made a generous grant to create the André Sobel Scholarship Film Awards to help Idyllwild Arts students as they proceed with their lives in a way that was not possible for André.

Designed to recognize excellence in filmmaking and student overall contribution to the school, André Sobel Film Awards are given in four categories:

Best Film by a Senior

Most Promising Undergraduate Filmmaker

Best Cinematography

Best Sound Design

Films will be judged by the Moving Pictures faculty and a jury of film industry professionals and will be presented at the Awards Assembly on Thursday, June 3.

The Friday, May 28 at 7:30 pm screening will be held in the Idyllwild Arts Foundation Theatre on the campus of Idyllwild Arts, 52500 Temecula Road, Idyllwild, California.  The very special screening at 7:30 pm on Saturday, May 29 is in the community Idyllwild’s only movie theatre “The Rustic”, 54290 North Circle Drive.  The recently renovated theatre is being open to the public for free that evening to view the student films.

For additional information please call Public Relations at (951) 659 2171 x. 2339.