Restone Film Festival 2010

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Redstone Festival 2010

Sponsored by Sumner Redstone, Chairman of VIACOM, the Redstone Festival is recognized as one of New England’s premier film & television venues, featuring projects written and directed by graduate and undergraduate students from the Boston University’s College of Communication.

This year's Boston festival will be held at the Tsai Performance Center on Wednesday, February 10th.

Winners of the festival are chosen by a panel of prominent professionals selected from throughout the film industry. Monetary cash prizes are given to first, second and third place finishers. In addition to the short film awards, the judges will announce the winner of the 2010 Fleder-Rosenberg short screenplay contest.

In April the festival travels to Los Angeles where students will showcase their films in front of an additional panel of judges for cash and prizes.

Over the years, Redstone winners (and finalists) have turned out to be some of Boston’s most successful Directors, Screenwriters and Producers. Many of these same films have been nominated and won in film festivals all around the world. Two have even earned Academy Award nominations. Redstone winners include such big names as Gary Fleder ("Runaway Jury"), Joe Roth ("Christmas With the Cranks"), Director Lauren Ivy Chiong ("Testament") Producer Richard Gladstein ("Finding Neverland", "Cider House Rules"), Producer/Director Robert Patton-Spruill ("Squeeze", "Body Count"), Screenwriters Scott Rosenberg ("Con Air", "Beautiful Girls") and Steve Brill ("Mighty Ducks").