Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA -- The Santa Barbara International Film Festival, presented by UGG® Australia, which runs January 27-February 7, announced the finalists for the 10-10-10 Student Filmmaking Competition and Student Screenwriting Competition, presented by Relativity Education. The festival is excited to also announce that the new presenting sponsor will award the competition's four winners with full scholarships to the Relativity Education LA-based summer workshops, along with a digital release of their films.

On Saturday, February 7, at 2:00pm at the Arlington Theatre, all ten completed films will be screened and the four winners – selected from each category at the high school and college levels – will be announced. The winners will each receive full scholarships from Relativity Education’s Los Angeles-based summer workshops, which offer camps for students 13-17 and intensives for adults. In addition, the winners will also receive a $500 gift certificate to Samy’s Camera.

"Educational programs like 10-10-10 are some of the most important and rewarding aspects of SBIFF’s mission," said Mickey Duzdevich, SBIFF Programming Manager. "We are thrilled to have Relativity Education as a presenting sponsor this year, especially for bringing such a great opportunity to burgeoning filmmakers."

“We are honored to support such an amazing competition for the next generation of filmmakers. The 10-10-10 Student Competition is the perfect complement to Relativity Education’s in-depth industry curriculum and we look forward to seeing the amazing films these students will create,” said Glenn Kalison, President of Relativity Education.

Relativity Education offers an array of film, media and performing arts programs, ranging from long-term programs to summer workshops. With curricula developed in collaboration with industry insiders, taught by working professionals and operated from an active Hollywood production studio, Relativity Programs provide unparalleled opportunities for the next-generation of actors, filmmakers and content entrepreneurs to learn by doing. The Relativity Education mission lies at the crossroads of art and commerce. The programs train students to think like entrepreneurs and challenge them to embrace the rapidly changing technological landscape shaping the future of entertainment.

In its 13th year, the competition pairs 10 finalists each from The Screenwriting Competition, sponsored by Final Draft, Inc. and The Riordan Foundation and the Filmmaking Competition, sponsored by Heritage Oaks Bank and The Riordan Foundation. The finalists from Santa Barbara area high school and college students were selected from 48 screenplay and 36 film submissions. The 10 screenwriting finalists were assigned a genre and an industry professional mentor to guide them during the writing of their screenplay, and they were matched with one of the 10 filmmaking finalists, who will produce a 10-minute film from their screenplay, during the 10 days of the 30th Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

The finalists of the 10-10-10 Student Screenwriting and Filmmaking Competition are: Alex Zauner, San Marcos High School Cristina Carrasco, Santa Barbara City College Anthony Nisich, Dos Pueblos High School Cynthia Escamilla, Santa Barbara City College Gordon Dawson, Dos Pueblos High School Isabelle Carasso, UC Santa Barbara Graham Collector, Santa Barbara High School Joe Arciniega, UC Santa Barbara Hana Antrim, Santa Barbara High School John Blascoe, Santa Barbara City College

Filmmaking Finalists: Daniel Dewan, San Marcos High School Aleksandar Adzic, Brooks Institute Sira Eriksen, Dos Pueblos High School Steven Boyd, Allan Hancock College Patrick Hall, Santa Barbara High School Benjamin Brown, Santa Barbara City College Julia Kupiec, Santa Barbara High School Elvis Metcalf, UC Santa Barbara Kylan Tyng, Laguna Blanca School Marvin Nuecklaus, UC Santa Barbara

The mentors for this year’s 10-10-10 Competition are: Mashey Bernstein Perry Lang Josh Conviser Jaron Present Ed Kaplan James Read Jeff King Artie Schmidt Paul Kurta David Schneiderman Glenn Leopold Tracey Trotter Victoria Riskin Peter Seaman David Starkey Ralph Thomas

For ticket and schedule information, log onto www.sbiff.org.

SBIFF Press Release

Edited by Vanessa McMahon