The annual UCR Video Festival will fill Arts 335 on June 7th from 7-10PM with hundreds of professors, students, and faculty primarily from the Art and English Departments, as well as the Film and Visual Culture Program. The Student Organization for Film Art, the UCR Art Department, and the UCR Film and Visual Culture Program are working together to plan for the festival. The presentation will consist of one three-hour session, followed by a reception where video pieces will be discussed.

Each participant’s video piece requires a tremendous amount of hard work and dedication, which involves months of preparation. The Festival Selection Committee is comprised of seven people who seek to select videos with any combination of inventive, incisive, bold, vital and otherwise provocative work of any style or genre. All videos have been screened and discussed at length in terms of overall enjoyability, artistic concepts, diversity, and length for the event. Entries are judged on their creative content, but also on the ability to maintain the spirit of student video/filmmaking.

This opportunity provides students with great exposure and valuable work experience. For many participants, this will be their first, public opportunity to showcase their work. This year’s student director for the UCR Video festival, Rob Poquez, a senior in Film and Visual Culture said, “This is important to have at UCR because it gives the many talented people in the Film and Visual Culture Program recognition which is harder to come by in this relatively new program on campus.” The festival is free and open to the public, and everyone is welcome to participate in the event by shooting or producing work for the festival.