AEGiS-PRn: Showtime Teams Up With NYU's Kanbar Institute of Film and Television For a Second Round of Short Films: Graduate Film Students From The Tisch School of the Arts To Explore AIDS-Related Themes

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Showtime Teams Up With NYU's Kanbar Institute of Film and Television For a Second Round of Short Films: Graduate Film Students From The Tisch School of the Arts To Explore AIDS-Related Themes

PRNewswire - February 26, 2003

NEW YORK, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Showtime Networks and the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University will join forces to work with students in the Graduate Film Division to help develop their thesis projects. The films will explore AIDS-related themes and are expected to air on SHOWTIME in late 2003 or early 2004. These shorts are part of Showtime Networks' ongoing commitment to participate in the Viacom and Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation's multi-year HIV/AIDS initiative, entitled KNOW HIV/AIDS, which recently kicked off with the dissemination of awareness and prevention messages via television, radio, and outdoor advertising.

The project is open to thesis-level graduate film students. Faculty from the Kanbar Institute will select 25 semi-finalists whose proposals will be submitted to SHOWTIME. SHOWTIME will select eight finalist projects to receive production assistance and cash awards to help cover expenses. The finalists will be supervised through pre-production, production and post- production by Kanbar Institute faculty members with Showtime Networks' feedback as needed.

The finished films will be between three minutes and 15 minutes in length. John Moser will serve as the creative executive on behalf of Showtime Networks.

In 2002, Showtime Networks and the Tisch School of the Arts collaborated on "REFLECTIONS FROM GROUND ZERO," a project of short films that examined the effects of September 11.

The Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts provides an intensive and professional education in filmmaking. The program shared first place in recent U.S. News and World Report rankings of the nation's film programs; since 1992, twelve Student Academy Award gold medals have been presented to NYU student filmmakers by the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences. At the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, NYU students and alumni walked away with an unprecedented seven awards in virtually every top-prize category. And at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, NYU graduates and faculty won 9 out of 19 awards. Approximately 150 graduate and 1,050 undergraduate film students pursue degrees in film and television production, photography, cinema studies, dramatic writing and interactive telecommunications. Distinguished alumni of the Tisch School of the Arts include Alec Baldwin, Joel Coen, Chris Columbus, Billy Crystal, Martha Coolidge, Ernest Dickerson, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Heckerling, Jim Jarmusch, Ang Lee, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese and Oliver Stone, among others.

Showtime Networks Inc. (SNI), which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Viacom Inc., owns the premium television networks SHOWTIME, THE MOVIE CHANNEL and FLIX, as well as the multiplex channels SHOWTIME TOO, SHOWTIME SHOWCASE, SHOWTIME EXTREME, SHOWTIME BEYOND, SHOWTIME NEXT, SHOWTIME WOMEN, SHOWTIME FAMILYZONE and TMC Xtra. SNI operates and manages the premium television network SUNDANCE CHANNEL, which is owned by SNI, Robert Redford and Universal Studios. SNI markets and distributes sports and entertainment events for exhibition to subscribers on a pay-per-view basis through SET (Showtime Event Television) Pay Per View. Additionally, the advertiser-supported television network SHOWTIME EXTREME is available in Spain through a joint venture with Media Park and the advertiser-supported television network. SHOWTIME is available in Turkey through a joint venture with UK-based Zone Vision.

SOURCE Showtime Networks Inc.

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