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TVTV celebrates first film fest
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Public access television has been in the Treasure Valley for over a year now, and on Sunday, April 14, TVTV’s first annual Film and Video Festival was held in the Special Events Center.
TVTV enables a community to establish reciprocity by allowing people to speak from their own mouths rather than through an objective journalist’s, and is funded by fees taken from monthly cable bills, donations and minimal producer costs. Essentially, there is no bottom line that needs to be pandered to.
The film festival judges picked the three best films from two categories, amateur and professional.
First Place in the amateur division was taken by Mark Hitz’s “Signal to Noise,” which is an abstract realization of an audiophile’s fear of deafness and/or the inability to love and communicate without sound or music.
Troy Shreve’s music video, “December,” took Second Place and Jory Sutton and Jacki Covington both tied for Third Place in the amateur category.
Covington’s untitled piece depicted the view of an abused elementary school student. The film was shot in black & white and only filmed the ignorant adult caregivers from the shoulders down, underlining the social and emotional disconnectiveness of the abusers. Sutton’s film, “Disco Duo: In Memory of the Discomobile,” will run as a five-part series on TVTV this summer.
The First Place winner in the professional category went to Steve Glines for his film “Silent Night” and Phil Atlakson was awarded Second Place for “The Catch.”
Short excerpts were shown from many other films such as
“Brainspasm,” a film about a poetry slam and a historical documentary about life in Idaho called “Grandma’s Story.”
The Boise area has so many cultures and subcultures, which mainstream television mostly ignores, that TVTV’s festival should have given more kudos to this diversity rather than simply giving merit to those who can run a camera and edit the best.
Festival Director Peter Lutze, a Boise State communication professor, is excited that more community organizations are taking an active role in TVTV’s success.
“This definitely helps different aspects of the community to be better understood,” Lutze said.
TVTV Office Manager Cheri Berkowitz said she has received many positive phone calls about the recent programming.
“This is an exciting time to work for TVTV. If it can be aired on HBO, then it can be aired on Channel 11.”
The nice part about public access television is the programming is not subject to many of the same rules that corporate television has to abide by.
For more information about TVTV, log onto www.tvpatv.org or call 343-1100.
Special to the Arbiter