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The Festival is organized under the direction of the BEA Board
of Directors. The BEA Festival Committee acts on behalf of the Board
organizing each year's competition and Festival Sessions. The Committee
functions with a Chair, the Festival Committee and the Chair, appointed
by the Board of Directors, directs the activities in planning and
executing the Festival. Members of the committee participate and
supervise overall planning: juried entries, organizing the awards
presentations, the exhibition of winning presentations and related
Festival Workshops. Festival subcommittees are organized to conduct
specific competitions. Each competition is headed by a Competition
Chair. Current Festival Subcommittees include: Radio and Audio Media,
Production Aesthetics & Criticism, Documentary, News, Interactive
Media, Communication Technology, Student Media Advisors, Small and 2
Year Colleges, and Writing. These Competition Chairs are nominated by
the BEA Divisions Chairs and work as a part of the Festival
Committee.
The objective of the BEA Festival is to provide a national refereed exhibition of faculty creative activities and a national showcase for our students' work. Exhibition includes recognition, showcase and awards presentations at the international BEA Annual Convention as well as on-line at the BEA Web Site. Festival Chair Vic Costello
Festival Competition Chairs Faculty Audio Competition Melanie Stone Student Audio Competition Tony DeMars Faculty Interactive Multimedia Competition Mary Schaffer Student Interactive Multimedia Competition Richard Cawood Faculty Scriptwriting Competition Dennis Conway Student Scriptwriting Competition Michael McAlexander Faculty Video Competition Lowell Briggs Student Video Competition Warren Koch Faculty and Student News Competitions Ken Fischer Two-Year and Small Colleges Competition Tom McDonnell Faculty Documentary Competition Jay Rosenstein Student Documentary Competition Ralph Beliveau
Festival Committee In addition to the Festival Competition Chairs the Festival Committee includes: Steve Anderson, James Madison University; Robert Avery, University of Utah; Louise Benjamin, University of Georgia; Dennis Conway, Marist; Vic Costello, Elon University; Jan Dates, Howard University; Bill Davie, University of Louisiana; Pam D. Tran, University of Alabama; Todd Evans, Drake University; Joe Foote, University of Oklahoma; Don Godfrey, Arizona State University; Rustin Greene, James Madison University; Ken Harwood, University of Houston; Price Hicks, emeritus, ATAS Foundation; Scott Hodgson, University of Oklahoma; Robert Jacobs, Bradley University; Evan Johnson, University of Wisconsin-River Falls; Andy Lapham, United Kingdom; Thomas McHardy, James Madison University; Patricia Phalen, George Washington University; Gary Wade, Drake University; John Woody, James Madison University. Review Board Mary Beadle, John Carroll University; DʼArtagnan Bebel, KRIV; Barbara Cloud, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; John Craft, Arizona State University; Michael Keith, Boston College; Judi Moore Latta, Howard University; Elizabeth Leebron, Temple University; Larry Lichty, Northwestern University; Paula Matabane, Howard University; Fran Matera, Arizona State University; Norm Medoff, North Arizona University; Nikos Metallinos, Concordia University; Michael Monty, Seneca College; Mike Murray, University of Missouri, St. Louis; Peter Orlik, Central Michigan University; David Reese, John Carroll University; William Slater, University of Nevada, Reno; Max Utsler, University of Kansas; Herbert Zettl, San Francisco State University. The Review Process Working with the Festival Chair, Festival Committee and the Competition Chairs, the Review Board serves much like an Editorial Board would for a scholarly, refereed journal. The Review Board constitutes a large group of nationally recognized professionals and professors, who are organized into panels, which assist in judging individual full time faculty entries in specific categories. This blind review focuses on the following criteria: professionalism, the use of aesthetic and/or creative elements, sense of structure and timing, production values, technical merit and overall contributions to the discipline in both form and substance. The Festival Committee targets an acceptance award rate of twenty-percent within full time faculty awards. Faculty Award Categories BEA Best of Festival King Foundation Award - this award is given at the discretion of the competition chair to the best overall entry in the following faculty competitions: Audio, Interactive Multimedia, Scriptwriting, Video, News, and Documentary. BEA Best of Competition Award - this award connotes superior quality work, parallel in idea to research accepted for publication in a refereed journal. This award is generally given to the first-place submission within a faculty competition subcategory. BEA Award of Excellence - this award connotes superior quality work and is generally given to the second or third place finisher within a faculty competition subcategory.
Student award categories are established individually for each competition. They are generally designated as first, second, and third place awards. BEA Best of Festival King Foundation Award - this award is given at the discretion of the competition chair to the best overall entry in the following student competitions: Audio, Interactive Multimedia, Scriptwriting, Video, Two-Year/Small Colleges, Radio News, Television News, Television News Team, and Documentary. |
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