American Cinematographer - December 1980 - 11

Find out it you have what it
takes to make it in Hollywood.
Enter your best work in the

FOCUS '81 Film Competition.
This is the chance of a life¬
time to make your break, win

of $60,000 in
scholarships, cash awards,
sound equipment and Datsun
cars and gain recognition in
the film community
Enter yourn
wo
best work
After all, an opportunity like
this doesn't come knocking
every day
your share

1
16

Filmmaking: Finished
mm

film. $4,500 awarded in

scholarships. Plus first place
winner receives a 1981 Datsun
210 and $1,000 in sound equip¬
ment from Shure Bros. Inc. for
his or her college or university
Board of Judges: Nestor

Almendros, John Avildsen,
Gene

Roddenberry Bruce

Williamson, Peter Yates.

2 Documentary: Finished
16

film. $4,500 awarded in

scholarships. Plus first place
winner receives a 1981 Datsun
210 and $1,000 in sound equip¬
ment from Shure Bros. Inc. for

his or her college or university
SPONSORED BY EMI FILMS.
Board of Judges: Robert Drew
Ben Shedd, Saul Turell,
Frederick Wiseman, Ira Wohl.

Screenwriting: Original
feature-length screenplays.
$4,500 awarded in scholar¬
ships. First place winner
receives an internship at
National

Lampoon's motion
picture division, a 1981 Datsun
210 and $1,000 in sound equip¬

ment from Shure Bros. Inc. for
his or her college or university
SPONSORED BY NATIONAL
LAMPOON.
Board of Judges: Lewis Allen,

Tbny Bill, Lanny Cotier, Garson
Kanin, Michael Weller.

4 Producer's Award: Finished
16 mm film. $1,500 cash award
and $1,000 in sound equip¬
ment from Shure Bros. Inc. for
his or her college or university
SPONSORED BY ALLAN CARR
ENTERPRISES.
Board of Judges: Allan Carr.

Soundtrack Award:
Finished 16 mm film. $1,000

6 Film Editing: Finished
16 mm film. $1,000 scholarship.
Plus $1,000 in sound equipment
from Shure Bros. Inc. for his or
her college or university
SPONSORED BY MAGNASYNC/
MOVIOLA CORPORATION.
Board of Judges: Margaret

Booth, Ron Ellis, Vema Fields,
Aan Heim,

Barry Nye.

Competition Deadline:
February 2,1981.
Get a complete set of rules
from your English, Film or
Communications department.
Or write to: FOCUS '81,
1140 Avenue of the Americas,
New York, NY 10036.
Premiere and Award

Ceremony: A1 winners will be
flown, expenses paid, to Los

Angeles for the FOCUS '81
Premiere and Award

Ceremony which is conducted
in association with the LA.
International Film Exposition

(FILMEX). Accommodations
will be

provided
by the
Los Angeles
Bonaventure
Hotel.

scholarship. Plus $1,000 in
sound equipment from Shure
Bros. Inc. for his or her college
or university SPONSORED BY

Datsun
Presents

SHURE BROS. INC.
Board of Judges: Wayne
Artman, Jim Corbett.

F0CUS '81
Nissan Motor Corporation

"The

entry you submit must have been done on a non-commercial basis by any student enrolled in a U.S. college, university art institute or professional film school.

Board of Governors: John Avildsen

Douglas

Kopple

Jennings Lang

in U.S.A.

Vema Fields

Ingmar Bergman * Allan Carr * Chevy Chase * Paddy Chayefsky * Judith Crist * Jules Dassin * Stanley Donen * Melvyn
* Milos Forman * Bob Fosse * John Frankenheimer * Bruce Gilbert * Molly Haskell * Herbert Kline * Barbara

Federico Fellini

*
*

Norman Lear

Jack Lemmon

Sidney Lumet

Marty Pasetta

Eleanor Perry

Ted Perry

Gene Roddenberry

Herbert Ross

Andrew Sarris * George C. Scott * Mark Serrurier * Stirling Silliphant * Joan Micklin Silver * Neil Simon * Barbara Zicka Smith * Steven
Lee Strasberg * Walker Stuart * Joan Tewkesbury * Francois Truffaut * Liv Ullmann * Jerry Weintraub * Orson Welles * David Wolper *

Spielberg
Dan Zinn

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