By Staff, April 8, 2004
Panasonic announced today the four grand prizes winners in its Digital Filmmakers Grant program for independent filmmakers. Grand prize winners receive an equipment package, with a rental value of more than $17,000, that includes a three-week rental of the AJ-SDX900 camera and Fujinon Broadcast zoom lens, 10 hours of DVCPRO50 videotape, a 10-week rental of an editing package consisting of a Power Mac G5 and Final Cut Pro 4 editing software, and a Panasonic DVCPRO50 VTR with an IEEE1394 Firewire card.
The grand prize winners are Brandon David Cole of King Midas Films, Los Angeles, CA, for his film, "Bristol Boys"; Ken Saba of Burbank, CA, for his film, "The Untitled Michael Chordas Project"; Stephen Schaefer of Centrifugal Films, New York, NY, for his film, "Confess"; and Glenn R
. Schuster of Film & Video Production, Brooklyn, NY, for his film, "Mating Bird."
In addition to the grand prize winners, Panasonic granted several more awards consisting of a three-week rental of the AJ-SDX900 and 10 hours of DVCPRO50 videotape. Rental value of these awards is more than $4,500. The camera package award winners included: Lorraine Aromando of Communcations High School, Wall, NJ; Chris Bray, New York, NY; Todd Broder of Lovett Productions, New York, NY; Andy Cockrum, Austin, TX; Susan Genard, Los Angeles, CA; James Richard Ford Jr., Los Angeles, CA; Rosser Goodman of KGB Films, Los Angeles, CA; Paul Patrick Hogan, West Hills, CA; Lindsey Johnson, Port Jefferson Station, NY; Daniel Junge, Denver, CO; Eric Kepner, Little Falls, NJ; David Klein, Los Angeles, CA; Yiuwing Lam, Los Angeles, CA; Francisco Menendez, Henderson, NV; Michael Mills, Astoria, NY; J. Carlos Peinado, Ventura, CA; David W. Schoener Jr., Cedar Grove, NJ., Sean Sullivan, Teaneck, NJ; and Patrice Williams, Century City, CA.
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