ProAm USA Announces 1st International Student Film Competition

Free entry and students can win prizes for themselves and their schools. Jury of professional directors, writers, and cinematographers will award four prizes and the public will vote for the People’s Choice Award.

Piedmont, SC, USA, January 2, 2014. ProAm USA, maker of camera mounting systems for filmmakers, has announced today the first annual ProAm USA International Student Film Competition. The competition is designed to encourage budding filmmakers and is open to all students attending any high school, college or university worldwide, whether studying film or not.

“Students are tremendously creative, but they have limited public outlets for their work,” said Jennifer Melancon, ProAm USA’s Vice President. “We want to give students a platform to share their talents with the world, and reward both the students and their schools,” she said.

Each student winner will get a combination of cash and ProAm USA products. The schools that the winners attend will also receive products for use in their film programs. There are four categories awarded by the jury plus a People’s Choice Award that the public can vote on through the ProAm USA website. Entries will be displayed on ProAm USA’s YouTube channel and the finalists and winners will also be shown on ProAm USA’s website and other feature venues.

How to Enter – How to Vote

Students can find competition details and entry materials at www.ProAmUSA.com/student2014 or by clicking on the Student Competition button on the ProAm USA homepage. There is no cost to enter. Students can begin submitting entries on January 13, 2014 and all entries must be posted by midnight March 16, 2014.

The public can begin viewing and voting on entries at www.ProAmUSA.com/vote2014 beginning on January 20, 2014

Finalists will be announced on March 24, 2014 and the winners will be announced on April 7, 2014 on both www.ProAmUSA.com and www.Youtube.com/proamusa.

Elite Jury

The jury includes seasoned professionals across all aspects of filmmaking from writing to editing:

Armand Mastroianni – Director of Tales from the Dark Side, The Celestine Prophecy, Invasion, and Cameron’s Closet.

Ash Christian – Writer/Director of Fat Girls and Petunia, Actor in The Good Wife, Law & Order, Ugly Betty.

Bohus Blahut - Television host of Eye Opener, jury organizer for the Chicago International Film Festival, teacher at Columbia college for 10 years

Cosondra Sjostrom – Co-Creator/Actress in Syndicate, Actress in Dragon Wasps, Writer of Sketch Comedy.

Jon Schnepp – Co-Creator/Co-Producer/Director of Metalocalypse, Director of The Venture Bros.

Curtis Gwinn - Writer from The Walking Dead, Creator/Writer/Executive Producer Fat Guy Stuck In The Internet, Creator of Death Valley, Writer from The Man Show & NTSF:SD:SUV. improviser at UCB NYC/LA.

About ProAm USA

Founded in 2003 by film and video professionals, ProAm USA is an innovator in camera mounting hardware. From introducing the first tool-less, one-person-set-up camera crane to the first manual-tilting camera bar, ProAm USA has led the industry in developing creative solutions to camera mounting. ProAm USA products are designed and assembled in the United States, and the company works hard to preserve the environment by powering its facility with solar PV systems, using recycled packaging, and offsetting their delivery carbon footprint through UPS’s carbon neutral program.

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Downloadable images of the Call for Entrants and ProAm USA products are available at

www.ProAmUSA.com/students/media