The Big Read: Video Contest
Along with our essay contest, the Library also sponsored a short video contest. As with the essay contest, there were separate divisions for filmmakers Under 19 and Over 18. Entries were to be of a scene from The Death of Ivan Ilyich and could be acted or animated. The judging criteria were adherence to the text, creativity, and production and sound quality.
Perhaps it should have come as no surprise that filmmakers would have found the challenge of making a convincing short video of Tolstoy’s storydaunting. One team of Regent filmmakers, however, did take up the challenge and produced a first-rate adaptation of the final scene from the novella.
Over 18 Winners:
- First Prize ($150), Jonathan Ayee, Joshua Delivuk, Cinema-Television undergraduate students in the School of Communications & the Arts
Here is the YouTube link to the winning video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-5TorWYiCA&feature=channel_page
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
Leo Tolstoy
