Bemidji State University’s Headwaters Film Festival recognized “Am Fenster,” by German filmmaker Tim Ullrich, as the winner of its 2016 international film competition, held as part of the university’s fourth film festival, March 31-April 1.<\/p>\n
Films by students from Denmark and College Station, Texas, rounded out the festival’s top three honorees, and “Demons”, by Abdullah Al Maawali from the United Kingdom, was the audience choice award winner.<\/p>\n
Bemidji State student filmmakers took home awards for best collaborative production, best camera work, best interview, best use of found footage, best documentary storytelling and best performance in the Minnesota Student Filmmakers competition.<\/p>\n
Overall Awards<\/strong> Awards – Minnesota Filmmakers<\/strong> BSU’s Headwaters Film Festival is an entirely student-run endeavor. Nearly 30 students produced this year’s festival, which included screenings of international student films, a Skype session with Jamie Holt, producer of Lady Gaga’s video for the Academy Award-nominated single “’Til It Happens To You,” screenings of 2015 winners from NASA’s CineSpace film competition and Hollywood feature films each night.<\/p>\n Contact<\/strong> Bemidji State University\u2019s Headwaters Film Festival recognized \u201cAm Fenster,\u201d by German filmmaker Tim Ullrich, as the winner of its 2016 international film competition, held as part of the university\u2019s fourth film festival, March 31-April 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[872,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23453","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=23453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23454,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23453\/revisions\/23454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFirst Place: “Am Fenster” – Tim Ellrich, Germany
\nSecond Place: “Finn” – Marianna Abdalla, Denmark
\nThird Place: “Lucid” – Edward Montez, College Station, Texas
\nAudience Choice: “Demons” – Abdullah Al Maawali, United Kingdom<\/p>\n
\nBest Aesthetics: “Pal” – Connie Von Ohlen, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
\nBest Creative Editing: “Play Pretend” – Sam Deans, St. Cloud State University
\nBest Collaborative Production: “Don’t Be a Bystander” – Shelana Ysen, Bemidji State University
\nBest Camera Work: “Bemidji Brewing” – Shawn Campbell, Bemidji State University
\nBest Interview: “Your Mom’s” – Kelsey Jacobson, Bemidji State University
\nBest Storytelling: “45 Cents” – Alec Holland, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
\nBest Use of Found Footage: “Some Major Elements” – Alexander Danielson, Bemidji State University
\nBest Documentary Storytelling: “The Brothers” – Samuel Moore, Bemidji State University
\nBest Music Video: “Addict with a Pen” – Audey Shattuck, Gustavus Aldophus
\nBest Performance: Berit Dybing<\/p>\n
\n• Dr. Debra Sea, assistant professor of mass communication, Bemidji State University; (218) 755-3358, dsea@bemidjistate.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"