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Video Institute Films to be Screened at Film Festival
“GameCreate”and “Immersion: El Salvador” have been competitively selected for screening at the 6th Annual Buffalo Niagara Film Festival (BNFF)

 

“GameCreate” and “Immersion: El Salvador,” 30-minute documentaries produced by the Canisius College Video Institute, have been competitively selected for screening at the 6th Annual Buffalo Niagara Film Festival (BNFF). “GameCreate” will be shown on Wednesday, April 18 at 4 p.m. and “Immersion: El Salvador” will be shown on Wednesday, April 18 at 5 p.m. at the Market Arcade Theatre on Main Street in Buffalo.

“Game Create” is a social documentary about a new breed of gamers. Gamers represent a generation of digital natives who have matured into exceptional programmers and designers. They go “under the hood” of game consoles and collaborate with other disciplines to visualize science, make music and exhibit art. “Game Create” takes viewers on a journey to rock concerts, laboratories and conferences, which evoke the intellectual and creative inspiration of gamers.  “Game Create” was produced by Garret Weinholtz ’12, a communication studies and digital media arts major at Canisius College, and Jamie O’Neil, co-director of the Canisius College Video Institute and director of the Digital Media Arts Program.

“Immersion: El Salvador” follows a group of Canisius students as they travel to El Salvador with the college’s Institute for the Global Study of Religion (IGSOR). The film documents the students’ journey of self-awareness and enlightenment as they explore faith, religion, culture and justice in the Central American country. The documentary also highlights student interactions with the Salvadoran people, struggles of the poverty-stricken, evangelical Christianity, and the inspiring story of Arch Bishop Oscar Romero.  “Immersion: El Salvador” was produced by T.J. Neil ’12 and Hannah Hampton ’12, both digital media arts majors, and Barbara J. Irwin, PhD, co-director of the Canisius College Video Institute and chair of the Communication Studies Department.

The Buffalo Niagara Film Festival will run April 12-22, 2012 and will screen films at various locations throughout Western New York. For more information about the BNFF, click here.

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The Canisius College Video Institute provides students with the opportunity to put their classroom lessons to work on projects that will benefit the college and the community at large. The award-winning Video Institute provides students in the communication studies, digital media arts and journalism programs with opportunities to produce documentaries and promotional videos for not-for-profit and service agencies that otherwise do not have the resources to tell their stories.

The Canisius College Video Institute is funded in part by the East Hill Foundation and is co-directed by Barbara Irwin, PhD, chair of the Communication Studies department, and Jamie O'Neil, director of the Digital Media Arts program at Canisius College.

Public Screenings
Screenings of student video projects on campus are free and open to the public.
   Barbara J. Irwin, PhD, is professor and chair of the Communication Studies Department at Canisius College. A best-selling author, Irwin specializes in the areas of broadcasting and media studies. Her research interests include cultural indicators of daytime serial drama, behind-the-scenes development and creation of television programming, and the impact of the media on society. 

For information or to get involved in the Canisius College Video Institute, please write to irwin@canisius.edu or call 716-888-2108.

Students -- for an application to be part of this program, click a link below.

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