The 2013 Satellite Center Video & Animation Festival (SCVAF) will take place on April 12, 2013 at the Professional Learning Center (PLC) in Luling, Louisiana. Admission is free to all who would like to take part in the screening of entries during this year’s festival, which will begin at 4pm. Following the screenings we will hold the 8th Annual SCVAF Awards Ceremony (begins at 7:15PM). Wether you are attending as a creator or a critic we hope you have a wonderful time and take time to talk to the impressive young talent the Greater New Orleans area has to offer.

Nominees and Winners for 2013 SCVAF (winners in bold)

Animated PSA
“Taped Down” – Kait Aromy (NOCCA)

PSA Commercial Video
“Second Harvest Volunteering – Reid” – Jordan Reid (Satellite Center)
“SHFB Breaux” – Christian Breaux (Satellite Center)
“SHFB Felton” – Derek Felton (Satellite Center)
“SHFB Jones” – Connor Jones (Satellite Center)

Animated Music Video
“Fast Lane” – Matt Cantrelle & Paul Romano (Satellite Center)
“In The System” – Jacob Jones (Satellite Center)
“Say! Don’t Play – More Than Anything” – Haley Hebert (Satellite Center)
“Watch Me Go” – Sabra Wilson (Satellite Center)

Music Video
“Reach” – Grayton Newman, Liam Craver & Nick Ramey (NOCCA)

News Sports
“Destrehan Cheerleading” – Elizabeth Quintero (Satellite Center)
“Friendship Beyond Differences” – Brenden Tworney, Jared Wise & Amy Boraks (Treen Technology Center)
“ProStart Educator” – Amy Boraks (Treen Technology Center)
“Timmy Byrd” – Derek Felton (Satellite Center)

Experimental
“Mirrors” – Lauren Armantrout & Kirstin Johnson (NOCCA)
“Play” – Megan Taylor Williams (NOCCA)
“Thirtyonethirtythree” – Austin Niel (NOCCA)
“Who Am I” – Brittany Creel (NOCCA)

Animated Short Film
“Bird of a Feather” – Kara Chaisson (Satellite Center)
“Crafty” – Liam Craver (NOCCA)
“Pandora’s Box” – Jordon Gaubert, Christopher Maheu & Clark Wagener (Brother Martin)
“The Cupcake War” – Donovan Hicks

Video Documentary
“Confessions of Meiyu Zheng” – Kirstin Johnson (NOCCA)
“Personal Space” – Deborah Amann (NOCCA)
“The Vending Thief” – Zoe Zollinger (NOCCA)
“What You See Is What You Get” – Demi Robert (Lusher Charter School)

Video Short Film
“A Deal Goes Down” – Quinton Vinnett, Derek Felton & Elizabeth Quintero (Satellite Center)
“Compulsive” – Mary Margaret Winchell (NOCCA)
“I.D. os Mio” – Aili Fracis, Zoe Hess & Matthew Howard (Lusher Charter School)
“Muscle Memory” – Mason Dauphin, Christian Breaux & Nicholas Carbo (Satellite Center)

Glen Pitre, of Cote Blanche Productions, will be the guest speaker to start the Awards Ceremony. Born at Cut Off, Louisiana, Glen Pitre worked his way through Harvard by fishing shrimp each summer. By age 25, American Film magazine dubbed him “father of the Cajun cinema” as his low-budget, French dialect “gumbo westerns” broke house records in bayou country theaters. With the help of the Sundance Institute, his internationally-lauded 1986 Belizaire the Cajun became his first English-language production. Since then Pitre’s works in a variety of media, frequently in collaboration with wife Michelle Benoit, often about life in his native Louisiana wetlands, have earned him numerous awards, including an honorary doctorate and a knighthood from France. In a 2006 book, America’s most famous film critic, Roger Ebert, acclaimed Pitre “a legendary American regional director.”

After Glen has wowed the crowd with his stories, the nominees for each festival category will be announced and a winner for each category will be awarded. All submissions have been pre-judged by a panel of professionals from the animation, film, and broadcasting industries throughout the nation. The average score from these judges are what decides the winner for each category.

Over the past 7 years the Satellite Center Video & Animation Festival has had the pleasure of having some of the most talented young animators, broadcast journalists and cinematographers from the Greater New Orleans area take part in our festival. Below you can watch some of the winners from our past festivals and see what is expected of the entries from our partner schools.