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31 Oct 09. Shooting stars 2010 is a national level student short film making competition. This year it will be conducted on 30 January 2010. Entries should be submitted to St. Aloysius College, Department of Mass Communication by 21 December 2009.

This competition is open to all students studying in UG or PG. The films and documentaries should not exceed 10 min duration. Cash prizes are given for three categories.

– Best Konkani film
– Best Short Film
– Best Documentary film

Short film and documentary film done in any language other than English must have subtitles in English. Technical crew should be small. There is also a nominal entry fee.

Shooting stars was launched in 2005 by Rev Dr Richard Rego SJ, (Director of Community Radio Sarang 107.8 MHz and HOD of MCMS). It is an ambitious project of the Dept of Mass Communication and Journalism, St Aloysius College, Mangalore. It provides a forum -opportunity, infrastructure, support, encouragement, and publicity- to young wanna-be-student-filmmakers.

For More Details you can visit
www.staloysiuscollege.wordpress.com
www.richardrego.wordpress.com
Contact Numbers:
Rev Dr Richard Rego SJ – 9448546425
Mr Vivek Kannadi- 9343779794
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21 Oct. Dept of Mass Communication (PG – MCMS) in association with the Dept of Journalism (UG) planning the Shooting Stars – 2010. Mr Vivek Kannadi is in-charge of the event. He has been working on the much-anticipated event since August.
What’s more, this time not just Shooting Stars, but also a high voltage, national scale Media Fest!
Get going – the event is scheduled for January last week.
For more information, please contact Mr Vivek Kannadi.
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15 Aug. 2009. There is quite a bit of activity in this page. It only shows the interest people have been showing in Shooting Stars!

Patience!

We will be back soon. Within a few days, we will back with the latest on this much awaited students’ short film making competition and film festival.

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12 Oct. “Shooting Stars” is back. The students short filmmaking competition and film festival is back. This time it is at the national level. It is SHOOTING STARS-2009.

Dept of Mass Communication at St Aloysius College offers both undergraduate and post graduate programms in mass communication. Since this year Shooting Stars is organised by the Post Graduate department of Mass Communication, we would like to involve all the students of undergraduate and post graduate disciplines (ANY subject ranging from language and literature to science and computers and commerce and business administration to hotel management & tourism …) in this prestigious and most awaited media events around.

So if you are a student, do crack your brains. Get your concept clear. And get set go….

Guidelines:

1. Your entry can be either a short documentary film or a short fiction

2. It can be based on ANY THEME.

3. Duration: should not exceed 10 minutes

4. Vulgarity, obscenity or glorification of violence will not be entertained

5. Language: in ANY language! Shorts other than in English language should have English sub-titles.

6. Konkani films will have a separate category. Hence you could send in entries in a this special category.

7. Technical crew of the film shall not exceed members (the main team; assistants and artists can be any number)

8. A team can send in any number of entries. Registration feel will be Rs. 300/entry

9. Registration fee should be sent in DD form in favour of THE PRINCIPAL, ST ALOYSIUS COLLEGE, MANGALORE; and should be addressed to the Head, Dept of Mass Communication, St Aloysius College, Mangalore.

10. THREE DVD copies of each film should be sent to the organisers by courier.

10. Last date to reach your entry: 31 December 2008

11. There are  two CASH PRIZES for the BEST FILM in general category and BEST KONKANI FILM

12.  The crew of the films selected for the final round will be intimated by email/ phone before the festival

13. “Bonafide letter” duly signed by the head of the institution, certifying the names of participating crew as the students of the particular college/ university/ department should be sent along with the entries.

For further details contact:

Rev Dr Richard Rego SJ, Head, Dept of Mass Communication; 0-9448-5464-25 (richiersj @yahoo. com)

Saranya Valsarajan                                                                   0-9902-5188-53

Sajna Aravind                                                                           0-9945-4806-28

Sangeetha Gopi                                                                        0-9945-9231-25

OR visit us at:

www.staloysius.edu.in

www.richardrego.wordpress.com

www.staloysiuscollege.wordpress.com

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29 Dec. It is “Shooting Time” again. Shooting Stars – 2008 is back with a big bang. The third edition of this short film making competition and film festival is finalised. Soon you will have the details displayed on this blog as well as staloysiuscollege.wordpress.com besides many other sites and newspapers.

The short film making competition is open to all the college going students of any stream and discipline from any college across the country. Thus we go nation-wide. What’s more, this time, there are cash prizes.

So, get ready for a whale of a cinematic times. Scratch your grey cells, put a little team together, a concept and develop it as nicely as you can. And you have a short film (5-10 minutes duration).

Along with the Shooting Stars 2008, we will also have a 3-day national level UGC sponsored workshop on Cinematography. Only a few seats are there for taking. Please register yourself. Once again, it is meant for undergraduate students.

Please register yourself, at the earliest. You will enjoy this. Your board and lodge will be arranged.

We will be using 3-CCD digital cameras to train you. What’s more – we will have experts from the field. So, hurry up, even if you don’t get an invitation, you can email and check your chances. The farther away you from Mangalore, the better for you… mail me at <richiersj@yahoo.com>

22 Feb: Even Semester, II internals and reexams for II & III Yrs will commence on 26th. Those days, for three days, no classes.

Shooting Stars: surprise surprise!

Then comes degree day.

College Day (9)

Classes close for II & III Yrs.

17th – classes close for I Yrs.

College day

13 Feb 2007: Shooting Stars 2007- is on the cards.

1. Get ready for 2 March – a special day for the Technical & support crew of the films.

Time: 12 pm, Teletorium.

There will be a short press conference for the filmmakers, followed by screenings and a modest treat…

2. Shooting Stars 07- for public & families of film makers, with results announced on 3 March 07, at 1 pm, in the Xavier Block Auditorium. Winners trophy will be awarded then. Keep your fingers crossed.

Shooting Stars – 2007 film submission dates have been postponed to 29 January due to examinations.

Shooting Stars is an ambitious project of the Dept of Journalism, St Aloysius College, Mangalore.

It provides a forum -opportunity, infrastructure, support, encouragement, and publicity- to young wanna-be-student-filmmakers.

The Competition of Short Films (5-10 minutes of duration) – registration to be done before 15 December 2007.

Competition will be followed by high voltage short film festival.

A team can register ANY NUMBER OF (but based on the BROAD THEME of the competition.

A team can consist of any number of people, preferably 2-5 (but it is upto YOU)

Non-Journalism students can also team up with Journalism students for assistance-sake.

For more info on Shooting Stars, please visit our post on 3 November, or search for “

Shooting Stars” in the search bar.

Launched in 2005 (Shootings Stars-2006), the Short Fi lm competition and festival created headlines at the national level. An electrifying atmosphere was created at SAC and around!