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• Alumni team wins this year's International Documentary Challenge

• Date:
  May 03, 2012
• Description:

  The alumni team,  '20 Coop'  overwhelmingly won this year's International Documentary Challenge, part of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival for their 8 minute film, Sound of Vision.  It is the story of one blind man's journey to belong as he confronts the hurdles, and embraces the beauty, of the city he will never see.
  
  Congratulations to Loretta van der Horst, Dongnan Chen, Konstantin Syomin, Julia Doran, and friend Joe Vele.
  
  The challenge was to shoot and edit the story in 5 days and were up against 73 teams.
  

  They took home the following prizes:

  - Best Film

  - PBS' POV award

  - Best cinematography

  - Best editing

  - Best use of Genre

  The jury from PBS announced that it was Oscar worthy and were all unanimous in their picks.

  The piece is now up for audience award.   They are now eligible for the audience award, meaning through May you can vote online: http://www.docchallenge.org/2012-Finalists/sound-of-vision.html

  

   

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