Festival Data:

• Genre: Television, Documentary, General

• Competitive
• Students Section

Festival Website:

Festival Description:

The BEA Festival provides a national refereed exhibition of faculty creative activities and is a national showcase for students’ work. Exhibition includes recognition, showcase and awards presentations.  The Festival is an activity of BEA, conducted as a major showcase for the creative works of full-time faculty. It helps professors build a stronger tenure and promotion portfolio, while offering recognition, accolades, feedback, networking, and an abundance of reward opportunities for creative work products. The student awards provide accolades for student's work, scholastic programs and schools. The BEA Festival has quickly become one of the largest faculty and student competitions in the nation.

At present there are two general awards competitions: faculty and student awards. The faculty awards are limited to professors and professional academics. These are individuals working full-time within a teaching unit of a university or college. The faculty competitions are: Audio, Documentary, Interactive Multimedia, Video, Scriptwriting, and News. Student Competitions are in: Audio, Documentary, Interactive Multimedia, Video, Script wring, and News, and 2-Year Small Colleges. The judging focuses on the following criteria: professionalism, the use of aesthetic and/or creative elements, sense of structure and timing, production values, technical merit and the overall contributions to the discipline in both form and substance. Faculty awards include: BEA Award of Excellence, the BEA Best of Competition and the Best of the BEA Festival.

The student awards (limited to individuals who are full time students enrolled at a university or college at the time the entry was produced) are titled by the specific competition. Traditionally, these have included first, second and third place awards, as well as awards of merit as determined by the judging panel.

The Broadcast Education Association (BEA) is the professional association for professors, industry professionals and graduate students who are interested in teaching and research related to electronic media and multimedia enterprises. BEA was established in 1955. While the BEA organizational name reflects its historic roots in preparing college students to enter the radio & TV business, its members share a diversity of interests involving all aspects of telecommunications and electronic media. Over 1,600 professors, students and media professionals are currently individual members and approximately 275 college and university departments and schools are institutional members. Associate memberships are available for stations, cable systems, advertising agencies, law firms and individual professionals who share BEA's interests and support its goals.

Film Submissions:

• Accepts direct submissions