From mentor to concept to screen
Mentorship at Hatch: MSU Students Create Film in 36 hours
By Lucia Stewart, 10-22-07
HATCH Festival, in early October, brings together mentors and students as a part of the festival’s driving priniciples. What next talent can be fostered in the visual arts?
The Journalism Lab was designed to match students with working journalists for lasting mentoring relationships, and to put the students through the paces of putting together stories under tight deadlines.
Students from Montana State University, University of Colorado and Bozeman High School participated.
What is Hatch? is one film created from this program. Click here.
Director: Phil Newman
Producer: Maggie Hebron
Cinematographer: Zack Osterhout
Editor: Bobby Gressol
The mentors were professional photographers/photo journalists, Audrey Hall and Amanda Edwards; network cameraman, Gerard Miller; producers Jeff Pohlman and Geoff Stephens; and writer/journalist Mike Finkel.
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