Art Institute of Portland's Director for Digital Fim, Janet McIntyre and Video Named Finalist
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Local Film Documentary Director Janet McIntyre Named Finalist For 2009
Chris Columbus/Richard Vague Film Production Award
PORTLAND, Oregon, May 18, 2009 – Janet McIntyre, filmmaker and academic director at The Art Institute of Portland, has been named one of nine finalists for the 2009 Chris Columbus/Richard Vague Film Production Award. The awards, totaling $175,000, are given to New York University Alumni to direct their first feature documentary or narrative film. As a finalist, McIntyre will be flown to New York City this fall to pitch her project to the selection committee. Winners will be announced at a reception later that day.
McIntyre will use the Columbus/Vague award for post-production costs on her documentary, FADED. The film follows the story of adolescent girls and their experiences with binge drinking. FADED is in its second year of production and has been funded through grants from the Film Action’s Women’s Film Initiative, Regional Arts Council and Oregon Arts Council.
“Why is it that girls’ frustrations and insecurities get expressed in emotionally and physically damaging ways? How do peer pressures, sex, media and MySpace influence binge drinking?” asks McIntyre, “FADED is my effort to explore these questions and offer young women a platform to express their desire, anger and fear.”
Janet McIntyre is the Academic Department Director for the Digital Film & Video, Visual Effects & Motion Graphics, and Photography & Design Departments at The Art Institute of Portland. Covered Girls, her documentary on Muslim-American girls in post-9-11 New York, aired on SHOWTIME and won numerous international awards Janet received her MFA in Film from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she received the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Award, the Panavision Emerging Filmmakers Award and the Clive Davis Award. Other credits include music videos for Peter Gabriel and Anton Corjbin, Bloodfist 2050 for Roger Corman and recently a film on conflict resolution in sports for the Oregon Peace Institute. She has been with The Art Institute of Portland since 2005.
For more information about the Chris Columbus/Richard Vague Film Production Award:
http://filmtv.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ColumbusVagueAlumni.html
More about The Art Institute of Portland
The Art Institute of Portland is one of The Art Institutes (www.artinstitutes.edu), a system of more than 40 education institutions located throughout North America. Offering undergraduate design education, The Art Institute of Portland (www.artinstitutes.edu/PORTLAND) provides programs in design, media arts, fashion and culinary arts, with 21 different programs of study and minor in sustainability for select programs. The college seeks to be an innovative center for design, a lively supporter of the arts and a positive community partner in the city of Portland, the state of Oregon and the greater Pacific Northwest.
For more information or to arrange an interview, contact Emily Wyant, (503) 382-4722 or email: ewyant@aii.edu