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    Call for entries issued for DGA Student Film Awards for Women and Ethnic Minority Directors

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    LOS ANGELES --

    The Directors Guild of America (DGA) today announced that the application period for the 23rd Annual DGA Student Film Awards for Women and Ethnic Minority Directors is now open. The awards are designed to honor, encourage and bring attention to exceptional direction by diverse student filmmakers in film schools and select universities across the country.
     
    Over the years, the DGA Student Film Awards have highlighted dozens of African American, Asian American, Latino and Women filmmakers. Winners of the DGA Student Film Awards in each category will receive a $2,500 prize from the DGA and have their films screened in a special ceremony at the DGA Theater.  
     
    A number of past winners have gone on to enjoy successful directing careers, including:

    • Jon M. Chu (G.I. Joe: Retaliation; Justin Bieber: Never Say Never; The LXD: The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers; Step Up 3D)
    • Ryan Coogler (Creed; Fruitvale Station)
    • Nicole Kassell (The Following; The Killing; The Americans; Suits; The Closer; Cold Case; The Woodsman)
    • Patricia Riggen (The 33; Lemonade Mouth; Under the Same Moon)
    • Sylvain White (Hawaii Five-0; Person of Interest; Covert Affairs; CSI: Miami; Stomp the Yard)

     
    This year’s application period runs from April 12 – October 6, 2017, and the winners in each category will be announced in November. 
     
    Eligible films must be made in the 2016/2017 school year (September 2016 through August 2017), and produced as a student project under the supervision of a faculty member. Dramas, comedies and documentaries are all eligible. Animated and experimental films are not eligible. Applicants must be enrolled in, or be a recent (one-year) graduate from, an accredited post-secondary institution located in the United States and selected by the DGA. Eligible films are those in which a student holds every major crew position. 
     
    The DGA Student Film Awards application and submission process is entirely online. For more information, or to begin the application process, visit here.

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    How Prime Video’s “Burn Bar” is changing the way we watch NASCAR

    Saturday, June 14, 2025
    In this screen shot from Prime Video broadcast released by Prime Video, The "Burn Bar," lower left, is used to measure Ryan Blaney's performance during a NASCAR on Prime broadcast of a NASCAR Cup Series auto race from Lebanon, Tennessee, on June 1, 2025. The AI tool was developed by Prime Video to measure a car's burn rate and fuel levels. (Prime Video via AP)

    NASCAR fans have grown accustomed to seeing speed, throttle and braking on broadcasts for years. There has been one measurement, though, that has eluded networks and viewers for years.

    Until now.

    Viewers of the Prime Video races have been able to see fuel usage with the introduction of the Burn Bar. Race teams have measured burn rates and fuel levels down to the last ounce for years, but the methodology has been kept secret for competitive reasons.

    Prime Video, though, developed an AI tool using car data available to broadcasters and teams that can measure miles per gallon. The Burn Bar made a brief appearance during Prime's first broadcast, the Coca-Cola 600 on May 25. It has been used more frequently the past two weeks and will be deployed again on Sunday during the race in Mexico City.

    NASCAR on Prime analyst Steve Letarte, a former crew chief for Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr., contributed to the development of the Burn Bar and sees it as the first step in taking race analysis to a new level.

    "It's the first true tool that is taking information off the car, making calculations and then displaying to the fan a calculation or measurement that is being used in the garage. And it does affect the team," he said. "There's not a sensor on the car giving us miles per gallon. It's a mathematical calculation of other cars performances."

    The AI model analyzes thousands of performance data per second, including a range of in-car telemetry signals, RPMs, throttle and optical tracking of each car's position. The model then evaluates each driver's fuel consumption and efficiency throughout the race.

    Letarte worked with Prime Video "Thursday Night Football Prime Vision" analyst Sam Schwartzstein and Amazon Web Services... Read More

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