The Dreamcatcher Short Film Contest is designed to encourage innovation and creativity within the context of narrative storytelling on film and video.

It is the hope of Cloud Creek Institute For The Arts that the originality shown by contest entrants will find its way into the mainstream of contemporary feature film and television production and that the "Dreamcatcher Effect" will become a potent influence on general audiences as well as film makers and film buffs.

Because of that Cloud Creek is assembling a Panel of Judges from both the academic and show business worlds, masters of their craft who are dedicated to excellence in all aspects of film and video production. New judges are still being added. At the present time the Panel is comprised of the following members:

• Larry Brody has been a writer for television, books and magazines for 35 years and is one of the most awarded writer-producers in the Industry. Currently he is Creative Director of Cloud Creek Institute For The Arts.
• Debbie Ceccoli-Dyke is a writer, political analyst and one of the publishers of Script, the top circulation screenwriting magazine in the world.
• Chip Chalmers has directed 100 episodes of primetime television including Star Trek: Next Generationand Miami Vice. Currently he is a Professor of Film at Florida State University.
• Lynn Ewbank is a screenwriter and columnist for ScreenTalk, the international magazine of screenwriting as well as the official Archivist for the State of Arkansas.
• Michael Steven Gregory is an independent film maker whose works include the award-winning We, the Writer and the upcoming We, the Screenwriter. He is also a Professor of Film at Alliant International University.
• Alby James is Head of Screenwriting at Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK. He is active as a creative artist in theatre, film, TV and radio drama and in furthering the development of the film and media industry in the UK and South Africa.
• Arnold Leibovit is a writer, producer and director whose recent work includes The Time Machine, which he produced for Dreamworks SKG.
• Steve Poster is a renowned cinematographer who has worked with such great directors as Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott. He was Director of Photography on Someone To Watch Over Me and Stuart Little 2 and is a Past President of the American Society of Cinematographers and former publisher of American Cinematographer.
• Lee Wochner is an award-winning playwright and co-founder and former Artistic Director of Moving Arts Theater Company. He is a member of the Board of Governors of Theatre LA and a Professor of Playwrighting at the University of Southern California.

The judges are not the only ones who will see the entrants' work. Finalists in the Dreamcatcher Short Film Contest will be screened for the 39 members of the Cloud Creek Institute For The Arts Advisory Board.

Advisory Board Members include producers, directors, writers, cinematographers, agents, painters, publishers, editors, professors, motion picture studio executives, television network executives and film festival directors.

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