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["Lauren Rotman" <>]

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

WHAT: The Open Student Television Network (OSTN) and Internet2 will netcast
the 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

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 network 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 will continue
with an interactive videoconference linking student directors from their
home campuses with press and audience attending the film festival via the
Internet2 community's national, regional, and campus networks 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

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 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                           
Internet2                                       

       

Ellyn Stepanek
OSTN

  

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