Indie Documentary, "The Day My God Died," Edited Entirely by Students, Featured at Tribeca Film Festival

"The Day My God Died," an independent documentary feature filmnarrated by Tim Robbins and Winona Ryder and co-produced by Ryder,which will be featured during this week's Tribeca Film Festival in NewYork, was edited in its entirety by students and instructors of VideoSymphony, Hollywood's leading TV, Film and DVD Education Center,according to Mike Flanagan, President, Video Symphony.

Shot on location in Nepal and India, "The Day My God Died" is arevealing look by filmmaker/director Andrew Levine at the child sexslave trade in those lands, originally investigated by the lateAmerican journalist Robert I. Friedman, who wrote about his experiencesin The Nation in l996. Levine returned to the same brothers originallyexplored by Friedman, and documented the living conditions of youngwomen sold there into the child sex slave trade. The documentaryretraces the experiences of five young girls who have escaped from whathas become the fastest growing black market in the world, while alsoexploring the questions that young girls have as they prepare to die ofAIDS. The documentary will be featured during the Tribeca Film Festivalon May 8 and again on May 11th.

Instructor Tamera Daugherty was the liaison between "The Day My GodDied" and Video Symphony. She and her students there, courtesy ofequipment and services partically donated by Video Symphony, providedall of the online editing (on an Avid Symphony system) for the filmitself, with the sound design, sound editing, and final mixingperformed on ProTools systems. Video Symphony's students also designedand created all graphics and animations for this film, includingtitles, as well as the print graphic design imagery that appears on thetheatrical poster, and will later appear on the film's DVD cover.

Regarding this project, Mr. Flanagan said, "'The Day My God Died' isan extraordinary film depicting a horrific subject matter. We at VideoSymphony were honored to be involved in the editorial and postproduction services for this special film, which is certainly worthy ofsignificant attention. Our of our goals in donating some of ourservices to this film was to spread the word to the independent featurefilm community that our students are eagerly seeking quality projectsto edit and provide various other post production services to. Thesefilmmakers of tomorrow, working with tight deadlines and even tighterbudgets, should keep Video Symphony in mind as an invaluable resourcefor their productions, large and small."

ABOUT VIDEO SYMPHONY:

Video Symphony is one of America's most comprehensive,professional-level, digital media training and educational centers,specializing in TV, Film and DVD Production. The center focuses on fourcore area career programs: Video Editing, Audio Editing, 3DAnimation/Visual Effects, and DVD Production. Video Symphony isdedicated to providing high quality training to its students by highlyexperienced, industry professionals serving as instructors, allowingthose students to develop and expand their skills in all facets ofdigital media production and post production.

Originally founded in l994 as an Avid rental and training center forentertainment industry professional editors only, Video Symphony hassince become highly relied upon by the Hollywood community, for memberswho wish to continue their educational process within all facets of thepost production and digital arenas. The center's "Avid Bootcamp"debuted in l995, and subsequently played a key role in the education ofhundreds of Avid professionals. In l997, Video Symphony added 3-Danimation training, as well as audio editing and mixing, and digitalimaging into its course offerings. More recently, the center has begunto provide DVD production and visual effects instruction to its broadspectrum of students, who attend the center from all over theworld.

Video Symphony has trained members of virtually every majorHollywood movie studio and television network, and has placed numerousformer students in paid positions within dozens of major entertainmentcompanies. These include personnel working within ABC, CBS, DirecTV,Disney Animation, E! Entertainment Television, FOX, the Motion PictureEditors' Guild, MTV, NBC, Nickelodeon, Paramount, Sony PicturesImageworks, UPN, VH1, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures Animation,to cite just a few examples.

Video Symphony is located at 731 N. Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA,91505. The phone is 818/557-7200 and the web address is:www.videosymphony.com.