Orange, CA – (February 20, 2012) – A group of students from Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, recognized as one of the premier film schools in the United States, has won the Grand Prize for MOFILM Live’s first US college competition for an ad they created for Campbell Soup, depicting a child feigning sickness for a bowl of soup. The team beat out twelve other competing schools/ organizations, including UCLA and Pepperdine, to win the top prize.
 
“I am so proud of our students”, says Frank Chindamo, associate professor at Dodge College. “I suspected they had a good chance to win.”
 
Students Sten Olson (BFA/FP’15) , Adolfo Kahan (BFA/FP’14), Jonathan Amato (BFA/FP’15), Jordan Evans (BFA/FP’15), and Hannah McDonald (BFA/FP’15) received high-definition cameras by MOFILM president and co-founder Andy Baker for their thirty-second spot (presented Sunday, September 25). When awarding the group Baker classified the spot as “totally TV-ready.”
 
Chapman University was MOFILM’s first college in the United States to accept hosting the Live LA workshops. Event attendants were provided with cameras, laptops, and a “brand brief” from Campbell’s Soup Company to produce a real television advertisement over the course of a day. Nine hours boiled down to brainstorming, pitching, filming, editing, and screening thirty-second spots.
 
MOFILM, a company which links independent filmmakers’ creativity with name brands and social causes, runs major video competitions each year with sizable cash prizes, travel opportunities, and chances to be recognized by name brands. MOFILM winning contestants also become part of MOFILM:pro, MOFILM’s production arm that directly commissions filmmakers with brief from outside brands. Brands like Campbell Soup Company, Chevrolet and many others have capitalized and catapulted careers through MOFILM.
 
About Chapman University:
Chapman University, founded in 1861, is one of the oldest, most prestigious private universities in California.  Chapman’s picturesque campus is located in the heart of Orange County – one of the nation’s most exciting centers of arts, business, science and technology – and draws outstanding students from across the United States and around the world.  Known for its blend of liberal arts and professional programs, Chapman University encompasses seven schools and colleges: Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics, Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Schmid College of Science, College of Performing Arts, School of Law and College of Educational Studies.   Named to the list of top universities in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and the Princeton Review, Chapman University enrolls more than 6,000 undergraduate, graduate and law students.
 
Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts: 
One of the premier film schools in the country, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts offers students the unique opportunity to learn filmmaking in a hands-on environment modeled on a working studio.  The college is comprised of the Sodaro-Pankey Undergraduate School of Film and Media Arts, offering degrees in film production, film studies, screenwriting, creative producing, television and broadcast journalism, public relations and advertising, and digital arts; and the graduate Conservatory of Motion Pictures, offering M.F.A. degrees in film production, film and television producing, production design, and screenwriting, and an M.A. in film studies. Two joint M.F.A. degrees in producing are also offered in conjunction with the business (M.F.A./M.B.A.) and law (M.F.A./J.D.) schools. Dodge College is housed in Marion Knott Studios, a state-of-the-art, 76,000-square-foot studio and classroom building that provides students with 24-hour access to sound stages, edit bays, Dolby surround mixing, a motion capture stage and more.  With an Oscar and Emmy-award winning full-time faculty that boasts more feature film credits than any other film school, Dodge College is where students learn the entertainment business from the inside out.