2017 BEA Festival of Media Arts Faculty & Student Winners April 22 - 24, 2017 Las Vegas Westgate Hotel & Casino Faculty Audio Competition Saturday, April 22 | 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm | Pavilion 9 Best of Festival: Don Connelly & Dr. Bruce H. Frazier, Western Carolina University; Blackbeard's Ghost and the Queen Anne's Revenge (Long-Form Production Category) Long-Form Production Category Best of Competition: Kornel Gerstner, Chris Nelson, Michelle Mihalko & Preeda Thaiwatcharamas, Liberty University; Episode 4 - The Peak of Reliance - Part 1 Short-Form Production Category Best of Competition: Will Anderson, Central Michigan University; The tortoise and the hare: An Aesop's fable designed for ASD audience social skills education Student Audio Competition Saturday, April 22 | 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm | Pavilion 9 Best of Festival: Tim Ning, Adam Walker, Alex Laney & Alex Cathey, Northwest Missouri State University; Lifted - Audio Replacement (Multimedia Sound Design Category) Air Personality Category 1st Place: Adam P. Christian, University of Scranton; WUSR Electronic Music Showcase - Adam Christian Radio Personality Reel 2nd Place: Daisy Moreira, University of La Verne; Miss Daisy 3rd Place: JD Hershberger, Goshen College; JD's Breakfast Blend Award of Excellence: Kelly Green, Rowan University; The Alternative Scene With Kelly Green Award of Excellence: Tyler Cooper, University of Southern Indiana; Tyler Cooper Show Comedy or Drama Category 1st Place: Students of the New England School of Communications at Husson University, New England School of Communications at Husson University; Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery & Imagination 2016 2nd Place: Cole DeWispelare, University of Nebraska at Omaha; Ticking 3rd Place (tie): Marti Vaughan, University of Nebraska at Omaha; The Shining Aftermath 3rd Place (tie): Faiza Azam, Masood Malhi & Rafy ur Rahman, University of the Punjab, Pakistan; The Drying Village Educational Program Category 1st Place: Abdallah Abdeldayem, The American University in Cairo; More Than Just A Game :: A Documentary About Professional Video Gaming In Egypt 2nd Place: Shishira Sreenivas & Colleen Good, West Virginia University; WVU Student- Journalists Use DIY Sensors to Investigate Water Quality 3rd Place: Sam Arcaini, Alyssa Compa & Bob Duncan, Rowan University; Guns: Calibrate Your Thinking PSA, Promo or Commercial Category 1st Place: JD Hershberger, Goshen College; Goshen Theater Promo Series 2nd Place: Owen Miller, New England School of Communications at Husson University; It Could Happen To You 3rd Place: Eugene Cephas, Jocelyn Bell & Benjamin Googman, Austin Peay State University; What's That Gas? Award of Excellence: Riley Irving & David Cohen, Ithaca College; City Rhythms Promo Award of Excellence: Nick Herrick, Adam Rogers & Kyra Biscarner, Marshall University; WMUL Car Bash Promo Award of Excellence: Lyle Kwiatkowski, University of Nebraska at Omaha; Bubbles the Unemployed Clown Award of Excellence: Tyler Cooper, University of Southern Indiana; Halloween Giveaway Specialty Program Category 1st Place: Paul Kirkwood, Fort Hays State University; Gun Control - Op Doc 2nd Place: Alyssa Compa & Sarah Kalvaitis, Rowan University; A Community Affair 3rd Place: Kelly Green, Rowan University; Decision 2016: The Best of the Democratic National Convention Award of Excellence: Stephanie Lopez-Ruvalcaba, University of La Verne; Noches de Rock (Show #2) Multimedia Sound Design Category 1st Place: Joshua Rosebrough, Ben Gammon & Taylor Warkentine, Huntington University; Sounds Like Trouble 2nd Place: Peter Batemon, Missouri State University; Overwatch Cinema Trailer Sound Engineering and Production Category 1st Place: Gonzalo Avalos, University of Nebraska at Omaha; The Arrival 2nd Place: Tim Ning & Kayla Morgan, Northwest Missouri State University; Sam Akers - I Do Faculty Documentary Competition Sunday, April 23 | 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm | Pavilion 9 Best of Festival: Tim Sorel, University of Florida; My Kid is Not Crazy: a search for hope in the face of misdiagnosis (Long Form Video or Film Documentary Category) Short Form Video or Film Documentary Category Best of Competition: Mike Grundmann & Shaun Wright, James Madison University; A Good Blinder Award of Excellence: Sue Carter & Troy Hale, Michigan State University; Spare Parts: Human Organ Trafficking in Bangladesh Award of Excellence: Nick Geidner & Clinton Elmore, The University of Tennessee; Reaching Recovery: Pregnancy and Addiction in East Tennessee Long Form Video or Film Documentary Category Best of Competition: Dale Carpenter, University of Arkansas; Uncontrolled Variables: A Science Fair Story Award of Excellence: Randy Caspersen, Northern Illinois University; Go Penguins! Award of Excellence: Kari Barber & Nico Colombant, University of Nevada, Reno; Struggle & Hope Student Documentary Competition Sunday, April 23 | 4:45 – 6:00 pm | Pavilion 9 Best of Festival: Melina Tupa, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism; The Search (Long Form Video or Film Documentary Category) Short Form Video or Film Documentary Category 1st Place: Ricky Lassler, University of Maryland; ViewFinder: Forgiven 2nd Place: Megan Roethlein, Penn State University; Sogumadur (Storyteller) 3rd Place: Mario Adriano & Laila Al-Ghareeb, California State University Northridge; Lily the Glitch Award of Excellence: Riley Mills, Kyle Hufford, Jesse Bontreger & David Leaman-Miller, Goshen College; Admit One Award of Excellence: Joshua Rosebrough, Rachel Hart, Benjamin Crane & Benjamin Gammon, Huntington University; Goopfest: Finding a Unique Artistic Voice in the 21st Century Award of Excellence: Evan Matteson & Panthelys Theodoracopoulos, Huntington University; Scent Award of Excellence: Courtney Coffey, Sarah Gorman, Bryn McIntyre & Alexandra Weathersby, James Madison University; Parties to Pacifiers Award of Excellence: Jacob Voss, Loyola University Chicago; Second Flight Award of Excellence: Brian Georgeson, Michael Cianciolo & Peter Basch, Marquette University; Plan Bleuteaux Award of Excellence: Bibbi Abruzzini, Northern Arizona University; Brian Award of Excellence: Marteen Victoria Cleary, Northern Arizona University; MISSing Award of Excellence: Morgan Malecki, Pat Angehr, Ryan Shaffer, Skyler Onderdonk & Pat Angehr, SUNY New Paltz; Living in Recovery Award of Excellence: Alex Connor, Anna Costanza, Heather Mezynski, Dany Ramdhanie & Brendan Roode, SUNY New Paltz; Silver Award of Excellence: Kaitlin Becker, University of Central Missouri; Growl of the Wild Award of Excellence: Erika Orstad, University of Miami; Head Games Long Form Video or Film Documentary Category 1st Place: Kyle Jones, Deanna Kidd, Michael Walsh & Elijah Howard, Florida State University; 641 Muriel Court 2nd Place: Johnathan Martin, University of North Texas; The Great Hanging 3rd Place: Jennifer Soules, Angela Schuster & Jackie Cotton, Arizona State University; Unzipped: Naming Arizona's Nameless Award of Excellence: Ryan M. Flanery, Ball State University; Downstream Award of Excellence: Tori Lentz, Northern Kentucky University; From Addiction to Recovery: A Community's Response to the Heroin Epidemic Award of Excellence: UM Student Documentary Unit - Spring 2016, University of Montana; Aging Out: Autism in Montana Faculty Interactive Multimedia Competition Monday, April 24 | 10:00 am – 11:15 am | Pavilion 9 Best of Festival: Adam Peruta, Syracuse University; Traditions Challenge Mobile App (Entertainment & Emerging Techologies Category) Solo Category Best of Competition: Todd O'Neill, Middle Tennessee State University; College of Media and Entertainment Wall of Fame Student Interactive Multimedia Competition Monday, April 24 | 10:00 am – 11:15 am | Pavilion 9 Best of Festival: Katherine Habrel, Marie Orttenburger & Minn Wang, Michigan State University; The New Vinyl (Small Team Category) Solo Category 1st Place: Alexandria Coleman, Arizona State University; Decades after addressing discrimination, Post 41 continues to bring community together 2nd Place: Nicole Wong, Loyola University Chicago; The Ghost of Pauline Tang 3rd Place: Mekenzie Kerr, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Living with dementia: Nebraska plan may provide support Small Team Category 1st Place: Mariam Seif, Reem Mohamed & Hanien Gaballahg, The American University in Cairo; Second University Forum at The American University in Cairo 2nd Place: Brittany Holmes & Daishonai Jackson, Michigan State University; Racial Justice Now Large Team Category 1st Place (tie): Urban Plains 2016 Staff, Drake University; Urban Plains 2016 1st Place (tie): Tim Babiasz, Haley Burton, Richard Clegg, Caranita Harrelson, Jordynn McKnight, Taylor Smith, Kaitlyn Stahl & Lexi Veara, Elon University; Alegria Gri Gri Foundation 2rd Place: Carrie Lindeman, Meredith Husar, Spencer Muhlstock, Viktoria Schultz, Ithaca College; IC (I see) Beyond Body 3rd Place: Kelly Foran, Michael Garland, Erin Turner & Carolyn Crenshaw, Elon University; Cornerstone Foundation Faculty News Competition Monday, April 24 | 11:30 am – 12:45 pm | Pavilion 9 Best of Festival: Angela Kocherga, Arizona State University; Border Wall (Television Hard News Reporting Category) Television Feature News Reporting Best of Competition: John Goheen, Loyola University Chicago; Fog Beer Student News Competition Monday, April 24 | 11:30 am – 12:45 pm | Pavilion 9 Best of Festival: Olivia Richard, Arizona State University; Phoenix Veterans Courts (Radio Feature Reporting Category) Best of Festival: Ryan Eskalis & Susann Shin, Unviersity of Maryland; ViewFinder: Blindsided (Television Hard News Category) Best of Festival: