2010 MAE Winner, DIVA’s Youth Vision Teen Video Challenge
2010 MAE Winner, Art Institute of Portland student Jessie Charlton
2010 MAE Winner, Portland Community College student Kristina Davies
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OMPA Media Arts Education Fund Winners Announced
The Oregon Media Production Association – the state’s largest membership organization of professionals in the film, video, interactive, animation, and broadcast fields – has announced the 2010 scholarship recipients of its Media Arts Education Fund: DIVA’s Youth Vision Teen Video Challenge in Eugene, Art Institute of Portland student Jessie Charlton, Portland Community College student Kristina Davies, and Portland Community College student Kathleen O'Reilly.
Created by the non-profit group to help support the next generation of indigenous Oregon filmmakers, the MAE Fund is made possible through proceeds from OMPA’s popular annual Final Cut Classic Golf Tournament & Winery Tour, held each July.
DIVA’s Youth Vision Teen Video Challenge competition, based in Eugene, is a highlight of the DIVA Center’s annual OpenLens Festival. Open to students from Lane County public and private high schools, home schools, recent graduates, and teens not in school, the acclaimed program allows youth to communicate through short videos how they see themselves in society. All of the entries are then screened to a capacity crowd of students, teachers, dailies, and community members.
Jessie Charlton will use her MAE Fund scholarship to help defray the cost of completing a short documentary on Asperger’s disease for her senior thesis project at the Art Institute of Portland. The mother of a child with Asperger’s, Charlton created the film to dispel damaging myths surrounding this widely misunderstood syndrome that is actually a form of high functioning autism that affects a person’s social behavior but does not inhibit learning, speech or basic development.
A self-supporting fulltime student in the Portland Community College’s multimedia program, Kristina Davies is using her MAE Fund scholarship to continue her studies in filmmaking and video editing. Growing up in Kentucky, Davies said she found it quite difficult to find positive influences in her life before discovering her love of music and performing.
Kathleen O'Reilly will use her MAE Fund scholarship to enable her to continue her full-time enrollment in Portland Community College’s multimedia program where she is learning to produce and edit productions in 3D . Kathleen is creating her final project within the multimedia program which, utilizes Final Cut Pro and After Effects to create a 3D showcase of many of Oregon's most picturesque scenic locations.