Progeny Film Festival

Progeny Film Festival

Progeny is a local film festival held every spring at the Lyric Theater in downtown Blacksburg. Since 2003, Progeny Film Festival has provided a forum for students and local filmmakers to share their work with each other and the community. It recognizes excellence in several areas of filmmaking with awards and prizes.

The Progeny Film Festival is a forum for the sharing and recognition of local student and professional films. In this, it promotes filmmaking as an invaluable form of creative expression and cultural and social enrichment to the local community and beyond.

Progeny 2009 was a success! Congratulations to all of the award winners.

Submit Your Film Now!

The submission deadline for Spring 2009 closed on February 27th. Please return to this site for updates about next year's submission process.

Prizes

Currently we do not know what the awards will be for 2009. However, in the past we have had prizes ranging from Apple Pro software packages to gift certificates to shops around town. We have also offered books and other resources that encourage filmmaking professionalism.

Categories for awards include:

• Best Picture
• Best Actor
• Best Cinemtography
• Original Screenplay
• Best Editing
• Best Sound Design
• Best Director
• Original Score
• Best Visual Effects
• Audience Award
• Honorable Mentions

T-Shirts

An announcement for the 2009 T-shirts will be posted once they are available for purchasing. The 2008 design is displayed below.

Judges

Mike Gallagher

King Video Production - Producer, Director.

Neal King

Associate Prof - Dept. of interdisciplinary studies

Gabrielle Amos Minnich

Gabrielle Amos Minnich gained valuable experience as a crewmember on independent films and television productions in Boston, and received a master's degree in broadcasting from Boston University. After moving to Virginia she worked in television and public relations. As an employee of Virginia Tech's Office of University Relations, she produces promotional videos for the university.

Karl Precoda

Karl Precoda is an Advanced Instructor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies. He teaches a wide range of courses in the areas of popular culture, critical theory, film, and religious studies. His teaching awards include the Diggs Teaching Scholar, and his recent publications include Design for Adaptability (DFAD): A New Concept for Achieving Sustainable Design in Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing (2007). He earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia.

Stephen Prince

Stephen Prince has taught film history, criticism and theory at Virginia Tech for 18 years. His research and publications focus on violence in motion pictures, on Japanese director Akira Kurosawa and Japanese cinema, on the American film industry, on American film during the 1980s, and onpolitical cinema. The author of numerous essays and book chapters, his work has appeared in Film Quarterly, Cinema Journal, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He currently is the Past President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the world's largest organization of film scholars, academics, students and professionals.

Jerry Scheeler

TV/Film Supervisor, University Relations, Univ Rel/Vis & Broadcast Comm