Noticias

WHAT: The Open Student Television Network (OSTN) and Internet2 will netcast its first ever OSTN-Internet2 Film Festival which will showcase selected student work from the 2006-2007 school year.

Netcast streams can be viewed from the following link: http://www.internet2.edu/arts/filmfestival2007.html.

WHEN: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, July 19, 20 & 21, 7-10 pm EDT
(Following the live netcast, streams will be archived for 3 weeks.)

WHY: Student directors and producers participating in the festival will use Internet2‚s advanced technologies to submit and screen their films for the festival. Each night‚s events will be netcast for worldwide viewing. Following each night‚s screening at 9pm EDT, the live netcast over Internet2‚s high performance national, regional, and campus networks will continue with an interactive videoconference linking student directors with press and audience attending the film festival for a live Q&A session.

Featuring programs from around the world, the OSTN-Internet2 Film Festival promotes the exhibition of original and student-produced film to increasingly broader audiences, celebrates the artistic development of student video production, and encourages the exploration of innovative fiction and documentary storytelling.

For details of the films and shows involved in the screenings, visit:

http://www.internet2.edu/arts/filmfestival2007.html

WHERE: The OSTN-Internet2 Film Festival takes place as part of the Ingenuity Festival at Monte Ahuja Hall, Nance College of Business, Cleveland State University

About OSTN
OSTN is the leading provider of educational, foreign language, news, and entertainment IPTV content and services. OSTN features the only 24/7 worldwide channel exclusively devoted to student-produced programming. OSTN now is delivered to nearly 60 million subscribers at more than 4,500 university member campuses and 46 countries around the globe. OSTN can be viewed on televisions and personal computers.

In North America, OSTN uses Internet2 and National LambdaRail‚s advanced network to distribute programming to members. It uses JANET in the United Kingdom, ORION in Ontario, Canada, the GEANT2 Network, managed by DANTE, in the European Union. GEANT2 links to Asia via TEIN2, the Middle East & Africa via EuroMed, Latin and South America via ALICE, Mexico via CUDI and Australia via AARNet. For more information, visit www.ostn.tv/ <http://www.ostn.tv/> .

About Internet2
Internet2 is the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium. Led by the research and education community since 1996, Internet2 promotes the missions of its members by providing both leading-edge network capabilities and unique partnership opportunities that together facilitate the development, deployment and use of revolutionary Internet technologies. By bringing research and academia together with technology leaders from industry, government and the international community, Internet2 promotes collaboration and innovation that has a fundamental impact on the future of the Internet.

Contact:
Lauren Rotman                                               Ellyn Stepanek
Internet2                                                         OSTN
Lauren@internet2.edu                                     ellyn_stepanek@ostn.tv