{"id":116,"date":"2009-10-21T15:45:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T19:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.envisionfilmfestival.com\/?page_id=116"},"modified":"2022-07-13T09:40:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:40:13","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.envisionfilmfestival.com\/?page_id=116","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taylor University began hosting a film festival in 1998, when philosophy major Vinnie Manganello wanted a venue for screening the entertaining videos people were making in the dorms. The festival was a hit, and grew to become a fun, mock Academy Awards-type event hosted by the Student Activities Council, complete with red carpet and limo rides for the directors.<\/p>\n

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Festival founder Vinnie Manganello<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2005, the two students who won the Trojan Film Festival also won a Jimmy Stewart Memorial Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis, signaling a new level of sophistication in Taylor filmmaking.<\/p>\n

Later that year, professors John and Kathy Bruner came to Taylor and developed the program in a film and storytelling direction, eventually taking the film festival under the wing of the program, renaming it the Envision Film Festival in 2008 and bringing back Taylor graduate & Sundance winner Michelle Steffes and founder Vinnie Manganello to celebrate its tenth year. The event moved to the Mitchell Auditorium and solicited a variety of sponsors including Apple, Sony and AVID.<\/p>\n

A high school category was added to the festival in 2010.<\/p>\n

For more information about Film and Media Production at Taylor, visit www.taylorfilmandmedia.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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