Donate by December 31st and help DAFT celebrate its 50th year! Mark your calendars for April 28th at the DIA's fabulous Detroit Film Theatre as DAFT celebrates the 50th Michigan Student Film Festival--recognized by the American Film Institute as the longest running student film festival in the country.
Click here or the link below to donate anything from $10 to $1,000. Read on for more DAFT news and deadlines (including scholarships and DAFT's educator of the year) follow!
Happy New Year and thank you for supporting Michigan media students and educators!
Questions? Contact us at info@daftonline.org
Donate by December 31st for your contribution to be deductible!
DAFT's four partnership colleges offer wonderful scholarship opportunities to DAFT member schools and DAFT student members. By January 15th, students can enter a sample of their work along with a short writing sample indicating their interest in University of Detroit Mercy, Lawrence Technological University, the Motion Picture Institute and Specs Howard School of Media Arts. Click here for the form and more information.
Calling all artists! DAFT is once again offering a $200 cash prize for the designer of the poster and program for our golden anniversary festival. For requirements and an easy entry-form, click here. Deadline is January 26th!
By January 30th, you can nominate a media Educator of the Year to be honored at the Michigan Student Film Festival and at the Michigan Youth Arts Festival in Kalamazoo in May. For more information, including past recipients, click here.
On Friday December 1st, educators and media pros met at MPI in Troy for the fifth Media Teacher Symposium. The following Friday, December 8th, students networked with one another, shared their projects and learned from the pros at the Media Student Symposium.
Click here for more photos from the 5th annual Media Teacher Symposium at MPI.
Keynote speaker at the 4th Media Student Symposium, Fox 2 News Producer Alex Kimbraugh.
Some pictures from DAFT's December 8th Media Student Symposium at the Motion Picture Institute. For more, click here!
Mark your calendars for February 23rd, the deadline for submissions for the Michigan Student Film Festival, including $500 cash prizes for the Best Narrative Award and the John Prusak Visionary Award for Best Documentary. See our home page and handy pull-down menu with all kind of handy links!
Start thinking about July 2018 and participating in DAFT’s long-running weeklong intensive film camp, Focal Point. Questions, reach out to Royal Oak High School’s award-winning media instructor Mike Conrad at: conradm@royaloakschools.org
Be sure to check out our updated website and its pull-down menus for more information!
January 15, 2018: Scholarship applications due (see links above)
January 26, 2018: Festival Program/Poster Contest deadline
January 30, 2018: Educator of the Year Deadline
February 23, 2018: Deadline for Festival Entries
April 28, 2018: 50th Michigan Student Film Festival at the DIA
May 10-12, 2018: Michigan Youth Arts Festival at Western Michigan University
July 2018: DAFT’s weeklong Focal Point video camp (open to students and adults)
