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BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT TO TRAVEL TO CANNES FILM FESTIVAL FOR
INTERNSHIP ABOUT MOVIE INDUSTRY
Saandra Steinfelt, a senior and filmmaker in the Department of
Communication at Boise State University, will head out this spring for an internship at
a film student’s dream workplace: the Cannes Film Festival in France.
Steinfelt is one of 150 students who are participating in the American
Pavilion Worldwide Student Program, and she is the only student from Idaho
to do so this year. Walter Harris, the director of the program, said that
Steinfelt will work in the pavilion helping film goers, but that students
will be able to participate in round table discussions with actors,
producers and directors who will be able to give them insight and tips for
working in the film industry.
Steinfelt also will have an opportunity to show a short of the documentary
she is working on, We Can Change the World, which focuses on the
Idaho
students who met the Dalai Lama during his visit in 2005. She followed the
students, documenting how the visit affected their lives and how they
decided to practice acts of compassion. Steinfelt plans for this film to
be shown internationally as a humanitarian documentary and in classrooms
globally to help teach compassion.
She has good goals she wants to learn as much as she can and how
she could best fit into the industry, Harris said of Steinfelt.
Steinfelt is an honors student and a member of the Golden Key Honor
Society
who has worked on several films, including Ibid by Boise State
instructor and acclaimed director Heather Rae, which will be shown at the upcoming
South by Southwest festival. She is a past president and vice president of
the Dead Eight Film and Video Club at Boise State.
Steinfelt has to pay for her internship, post production of her short
film;
We Can Change The World as well as her plane fare to France and said that
she will spend the next several weeks raising money through contributions,
grants or scholarships.
I see this experience at Cannes as a way to learn about the industry
and be able to promote compassion through film making, Steinfelt said.
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