FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – October 22, 2009
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Chi Upsilon Sigma Sister Wins 3rd Place in Splice Capades Competition
New York, NY (10/22/09) --- Corazones Unidos Siempre/Chi Upsilon Sigma National Latin Sorority, Inc. would like to congratulate Eugenia Redondo Rivas AZ/A for winning 3rd place in the Association of Independent Creative Editors contest, Splice Capades, on October 7th. Rivas was required to choose a popular film, such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and transform it into an entire new genre. The challenge was to produce a 90 second trailer. “El mal de ojo de Benjamin Button”; is what Rivas morphed the movie into thus turning a Fantasy Drama into a Foreign (Spanish) Horror film.
Watch the trailer here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1yWNjeuOxY
The Association of Independent Creative Editors (AICE) is an international association which represents the interests of independent creative editorial companies and their editors. AICE is dedicated to the advancement and promotion of the creative editor and of the increasingly important role the creative editor plays in the media creation process. For example, more than 85% of all network television commercials edited in the United States and Canada are edited by AICE members.
With chapters in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco and Toronto, AICE represents a significant segment of this vibrant sector and will continue to maintain its strong collective voice in the $5 billion commercial advertising industry. Rapid advances in editing, graphics and audio technologies have created new tools which significantly broaden and enhance the editor's capabilities and influence. AICE members have been in the forefront of the technology expansion, researching, testing and adopting the latest tools and technologies to meet new creative challenges and opportunities.
About Chi Upsilon Sigma - Chi Upsilon Sigma has been in existence since April 29, 1980, incepted on the New Brunswick Campus of Rutgers – the State University of New Jersey. Our founders are 7 Latinas who had the desire to create an organization to promote leadership among the Latino community and our membership has since grown to incorporate women of all ethnicities. Chi Upsilon Sigma has devoted itself to increasing awareness amongst ourselves and our communities about important political, social, cultural, and educational issues and servicing the communities around us.