{"id":23315,"date":"2016-03-28T14:26:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T19:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=23315"},"modified":"2016-04-04T08:28:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T13:28:35","slug":"five-bsu-students-submit-work-to-2016-headwaters-film-festivals-student-film-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/28\/five-bsu-students-submit-work-to-2016-headwaters-film-festivals-student-film-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Five BSU Students Submit Work to 2016 Headwaters Film Festival&#8217;s Student Film Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t be a Bystander,&rdquo; a film by senior mass communication Shelana Ysen which encourages Bemidji State University students to look after each other in social situations, is one of five BSU entries in the&nbsp;Minnesota Student Filmmakers Contest, part of Bemidji State&rsquo;s&nbsp;fourth Headwaters Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Bemidji State&rsquo;s entrants are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&ldquo;Brothers,&rdquo; 14 min.;&nbsp;director: Sam Moore, senior, mass communication, Crystal, Minn.<\/li>\n<li>&ldquo;Your Mom&rsquo;s Atelier,&rdquo; 5 min.; director: Kelsey Jacobson, junior, mass communication, Renville, Minn.<\/li>\n<li>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t be a Bystander,&rdquo; 2 min.;&nbsp;A&nbsp;collaborative effort by students in&nbsp;Dr. Virgil Bakken&rsquo;s Single&nbsp;Camera Production course.&nbsp;Students who participated include Shelana Ysen, Janie Johnson, Heather Foner, Shawn Campbell, Kelsey Jacobson and Feifei&nbsp;Long.<\/li>\n<li>&ldquo;Beer Science,&rdquo; 8 min.; director: Shawn Campbell, junior, mass communication, Bemidji<\/li>\n<li>&ldquo;Some Major Elements,&rdquo; 2 min.; director: Alexander Danielson, senior, liberal studies and geography, Bemidji<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sam Moore&rsquo;s film, &ldquo;The Brothers&rdquo; is a documentary that follows two college fishermen pursuing a life-long dream in the fastest-growing college sport &ndash; competitive bass fishing. The film features BSU students Mitch Swanson, a junior business administration major from Blaine, and his brother Thor, a sophomore marketing communication major.&nbsp;The trio have been fixtures on the college fishing circuit for the last several years,&nbsp;and the Swanson brothers are competing at the Fishing League Worldwide College Fishing Open, April 1-2 in Marion, Ky.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You get to see what happens behind the stage and life on the road, both as a full-time college student and committed anglers,&rdquo; Moore said. &ldquo;I fully believe these two will be elite professional anglers someday, and I hope I&rsquo;m around to celebrate with them when that happens.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Ysen, Moore and the other&nbsp;BSU students are part of&nbsp;a group of nine student filmmakers from around the state who have entered work in this year&rsquo;s competition, including students from St. Cloud State University, Minnesota State University Moorhead, and Gustavus Adolphus College.<\/p>\n<p>Screenings for the competition begin at 3 p.m. April 1 in the Main Theatre of Bemidji State&rsquo;s Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex. An award ceremony follows at 4:30 p.m. The top three films will win cash prizes, with $250 for the winner.<\/p>\n<p>BSU&rsquo;s Headwaters Film Festival is an entirely student-run endeavor. Nearly 30 students have worked to produce the 2016 festival, which includes screenings of international student films, a Skype session with Jamie Holt, producer of Lady Gaga&rsquo;s video for the Academy Award-nominated single &ldquo;&rsquo;Til It Happens To You,&rdquo; screenings of 2015 winners from NASA&rsquo;s CineSpace film competition, and feature films each night. The 2016 Headwaters Film Festival runs March 31-April 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t be a Bystander,&rdquo; a film by senior mass communication Shelana Ysen which encourages Bemidji State University students to look after each other in social situations, is one of five BSU entries in the&nbsp;Minnesota Student Filmmakers Contest, part of Bemidji State&rsquo;s&nbsp;fourth Headwaters Film Festival. Bemidji State&rsquo;s entrants are: &ldquo;Brothers,&rdquo; 14 min.;&nbsp;director: Sam Moore, senior, mass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[959],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-circle-story","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23315"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23418,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23315\/revisions\/23418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}