Prizes
The following three video selections will win prizes:
- Judge’s Video Selection
- Top Audience Choice Video Selection
- Runner-Up Audience Choice Video Selection
Prizes include:
Three (3) $500 Brown Bookstore Gift Certificates
All three winning video entrants will receive this fabulous prize. Enough to buy books, sweatshirts, baseball caps, pens and even snacks!
Two (2) Industry Consulting sessions with writer and director John Hamburg ‘92
The Judge’s Video Selection and the Top Audience Choice Video Selection will win the opportunity to talk with a Brown alum in the entertainment industry – comedic writer and director John Hamburg ’92. Hear how he made the transition from Providence to Hollywood and ask the questions that will help you in your quest for a future movie making or screenwriting career. (See below for John's bio.)
One (1) Video Debut at the May 13th Chicago Financial Aid Initiative celebration with President Ruth J. Simmons
The Judge’s Video Selection will be viewed by more than 200 Brown alumni, parents and friends attending the May 13th Chicago Financial Aid Initiative regional event at the JP Morgan Chase Tower with President Simmons.
About John Hamburg '92
John Hamburg ’92 was born and raised in New York City, and began making short films while still in high school. He continued creating films while attending Brown University, where he also studied playwriting and, later, at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. While at Tisch, he wrote and directed the short film “Tick,” which debuted at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival.
In 1998, he returned to Sundance with his feature-length debut “Safe Men,” a comedy he wrote and directed. Starring Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Paul Giamatti, Mark Ruffalo and Harvey Fierstein, Hamburg’s film about safe-crackers and song-writers in Providence, Rhode Island has garnered a strong cult following in the years since its Sundance premiere.
He next co-wrote the screenplays for the popular comedies “Meet the Parents" starring frequent collaborator Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner and Terri Polo and "Zoolander" starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. Hamburg also directed several episodes of the critically acclaimed television series “Undeclared.”
Hamburg next wrote and directed the hit comedy “Along Came Polly” starring Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Alec Baldwin and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and co-wrote the successful sequel “Meet the Fockers” starring Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Streisand, both for Universal Pictures.
Most recently, Hamburg co-wrote, produced and directed the comedy "I Love You Man", for Dreamworks Studios and Paramount Pictures. Still in the early stages of its theatrical release, "I Love You Man", starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, has garnered rave reviews and strong box office results.
To learn more about the Financial Aid Initiative, visit the Boldly Brown Website.
For questions about the Student Video Competition, email Ellen Diamond.