The Camp Kuleshov trailer competition for emerging creative artists in post production – a.k.a. Camp K – has announced the winners of its Grand Prizes in the categories of Editing, Graphics, Sound Design and Music Score. Named for the famed Russian film theorist Lev Kuleshov, the Lev Awards were chosen from among the First Place winners in the Camp K held across the country last year. Those winners went up against each other to claim the top prize among all entries in those respective categories. Designed to give emerging talent a chance to heighten their creative and craft problem-solving skills while also gaining access to invaluable mentorship opportunities, Camp K challenges entrants to take existing films and re-imagine trailers for them as something new and different. The Editing challenge for Camp K tasked entrants with creating a movie trailer by using up to three of the films on the source list and in the process changing the original film’s genre to one from a list of specific genres or themes. The Lev winner in this category went to Fernando Raigoza of Arcade Edit, winner of the West/Southwest competition with “Die Die Birdie,” his mashup of “Streets of Fire” and “Bye Bye Birdie” as a Quentin Tarantino blood fest. In the Graphics category, entrants were challenged to create an opening title sequence for a movie that never had one, or had one that was simply executed. The Lev winner went, once again, to Marly Koven of Flavor in the Midwest competition for her subdued, blue-tinged title sequence for “Pan’s Labyrinth.” Koven also won the Lev in Graphics in 2023. In Sound Design, entrants had to choose a section of a film and create an entirely new sound design that casts the scene in a new light. The Lev here went to Cliff... Read More