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.

Attending Progeny is similar to going to see a feature film: two to three hours of short films are screened with a short break in between each where anyone is free to leave or come back. The screening is immediately followed by an audience vote for their favorite film which leads right into the awards and is concluded by a door prize raffle. Progeny is a bit different from a trip to the movie theater in that the work offers many unique perspectives and original stories that are sure to provide a fresh viewing experience.

Submit your film now! Progeny 2010 will be on April 17. See the submission page for details.

Submit Your Film Now!

Submit your film now!

Earlybird deadline - $5: Dec 18 (Mini-dv tape or video file on DVD)

Regular deadline - $15: Feb 13

Late deadline - $20: Feb 20

Submission form. Submission rules. Digital drop instructions.

Prizes

Awards usually include video software, iPods, iLife and iWork software, books, and cash.

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

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.

Simone Paterson

Assistant Professor, School of Visual Arts

Karl Precoda

Karl Precoda teaches Cinema Studies courses in the Department of Theatre and Cinema. He is also affiliated with the Department of Sociology.

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.

Randal Stith

Director Visual and Broadcast Communications, University Relations