UNH Manchester Professor Wins Best Experiential Film Award
 
By Kim Wall, UNHM College Relations

UNH Manchester Professor Anthony Tenczar received an award for his collaborative work with media artist and poet Aldo Tambellini. Their digital film Listen was named the Best Experimental Film Award by the jury of the 30th New England Film and Video Festival.

The festival was held Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline, Mass., during Columbus Day weekend and is the longest running independent film festival in New England. Boston Phoenix film critic Gerald Peary calls the New England Film and Video Festival “the most adventurous and reliably judged showcase for the best of area independents.” 
 
Listen is based on Tambellini’s social and political poetry and confronts today’s world situation with manipulated mass media imagery, spoken word and text. Tenczar and Tambellini met at MIT in the early 1980’s where they collaborated on several creative international telecommunications events under the name Communcationsphere. Listen had its premiere screening at the Howl Arts Festival in New York City’s East Village.
 
Tenczar also received an award for a half-hour program he produced for the educational access cable channel in Concord, NH. The Northeast Region of the Alliance for Community Media has judged professor Tenczar’s The Conant Mural to be the best School/Educational program produced for local cable by a media professional in New England and New York.
 
The Conant Mural was produced with Conant Elementary School Principal Kathleen Sciarappa. The half-hour program features children, faculty and parents and explains how the mural celebrates the Conant School’s 75-year history.
 
Tenczar is an assistant professor of communication Arts at UNH Manchester. He teaches digital video production, media aesthetics, media programming and documentary. He has won many honors for his film/video work and has screened his work at numerous film festivals and media outlets. He is also active in community based media and serves on the board of directors of Concord Community TV.