[ CENIC News ] OSTN-Internet2 Student Film Festival To Be Netcast For Worldwide Viewing

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OSTN-Internet2 Student Film Festival To Be Netcast For Worldwide Viewing

WHAT: The Open Student Television Network (OSTN) and Internet2 will netcast 
its first ever OSTN-Internet2 Film Festival which will showcase selected 
student work from the 2006-2007 school year.

Netcast streams can be viewed from the following link: 
<http://www.internet2.edu/arts/filmfestival2007.html>http://www.internet2.edu/arts/filmfestival2007.html.

WHEN: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, July 19, 20 & 21, 7-10 pm EDT
(Following the live netcast, streams will be archived for 3 weeks.)


WHY:  Student directors and producers participating in the festival will 
use Internet2's advanced technologies to submit and screen their films for 
the festival. Each night's events will be netcast for worldwide 
viewing.  Following each night's screening at 9pm EDT, the live netcast 
over Internet2's high performance national, regional, and campus networks 
will continue with an interactive videoconference linking student directors 
with press and audience attending the film festival for a live Q&A session.


Featuring programs from around the world, the OSTN-Internet2 Film Festival 
promotes the exhibition of original and student-produced film to 
increasingly broader audiences, celebrates the artistic development of 
student video production, and encourages the exploration of innovative 
fiction and documentary storytelling.

For details of the films and shows involved in the screenings, visit:

<http://www.internet2.edu/arts/filmfestival2007.html>http://www.internet2.edu/arts/filmfestival2007.html


WHERE:  The OSTN-Internet2 Film Festival takes place as part of the 
Ingenuity Festival at Monte Ahuja Hall, Nance College of Business, 
Cleveland State University

About OSTN
OSTN is the leading provider of educational, foreign language, news, and 
entertainment IPTV content and services.  OSTN features the only 24/7 
worldwide channel exclusively devoted to student-produced programming. OSTN 
now is delivered to nearly 60 million subscribers at more than 4,500 
university member campuses and 46 countries around the globe. OSTN can be 
viewed on televisions and personal computers.

In North America, OSTN uses Internet2 and National LambdaRail's advanced 
network to distribute programming to members.  It uses JANET in the United 
Kingdom, ORION in Ontario, Canada, the GEANT2 Network, managed by DANTE, in 
the European Union.  GEANT2 links to Asia via TEIN2, the Middle East & 
Africa via EuroMed, Latin and South America via ALICE, Mexico via CUDI and 
Australia via AARNet. For more information, visit 
<http://www.ostn.tv/>www.ostn.tv/.

About Internet2
Internet2 is the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium. Led by the 
research and education community since 1996, Internet2 promotes the 
missions of its members by providing both leading-edge network capabilities 
and unique partnership opportunities that together facilitate the 
development, deployment and use of revolutionary Internet technologies. By 
bringing research and academia together with technology leaders from 
industry, government and the international community, Internet2 promotes 
collaboration and innovation that has a fundamental impact on the future of 
the Internet.

Contact:
Lauren Rotman                                                Ellyn Stepanek
Internet2                                                          OSTN
<mailto:Lauren at internet2.edu>Lauren at internet2.edu 
<mailto:ellyn_stepanek at ostn.tv>ellyn_stepanek at ostn.tv

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