mtvU to Crown ´Best Filmmaker On Campus´ at the ´2008 MTV Movie Awards´ on June 1st

NEW YORK, May. 21 /PRNewswire/ --

NEW YORK, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- mtvU, the 24-hour college network, has announced the five finalists for the 3rd annual "Best Filmmaker on Campus" contest, honoring the best and brightest filmmakers of tomorrow. Throughout the year, thousands of student filmmakers create profiles and upload their films at www.BestFilmOnCampus.com, where they compete for cash, prizes, development and production deals, and monthly opportunities to direct music videos for major label artists. On June 1st, the biggest honor will go to the year's top filmmaker, who will take home MTV's Golden Popcorn for "Best Filmmaker on Campus" and receive a development deal with MTV Films worth $25,000.

The five finalists in the 2008 mtvU BEST FILMMAKER ON CAMPUS Contest are: -- Justin Beckenheimer (Towson University) -- Sean Jourdan (Columbia College, Chicago) -- Chris Cullari (Emerson College) -- Jasmin Tekiner (Columbia University) -- Dan Scott Goldstein (NYU)

Voting is currently underway at www.BestFilmOnCampus.com. The winner of this year's "Best Filmmaker On Campus" Award will be crowned backstage at the "2008 MTV Movie Awards" where they'll rub elbows with the biggest names in Hollywood.

Previous winners include Fordham University Senior Josh Caldwell, who took home the award in 2006 and went on to direct a 6 episode series for mtvU and mtvU.com. Since claiming the "Best Filmmaker on Campus" Award in 2007, University of Southern California film student Josh Greenbaum has seen his short films premiere in theatres nationwide and is now slated to direct the feature length film "Art of Cool" for Columbia Pictures.

Hosted by Mike Myers, the "2008 MTV Movie Awards" will be broadcast LIVE from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, CA on Sunday, June 1st at 8pm/7c.

About mtvU

Broadcast to more than 750 college campuses and via top cable distributors in 700 college communities nationwide, mtvU reaches upwards of 9 million U.S. college students - making it the largest, most comprehensive television network just for college students. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, mtvU can be seen in the dining areas, fitness centers, student lounges and dorm rooms of campuses throughout the U.S., as well as on cable systems from Charter Communications, Verizon FiOS TV, Suddenlink Communications, AT&T u-Verse and nearly 70 others. mtvU is dedicated to every aspect of college life, reaching students everywhere they are: on-air, online and on campus. mtvU programs music videos from emerging artists that can't be seen anywhere else, news, student life features and initiatives that give college students the tools to advance positive social change. mtvU is always on campus, with more than 250 events per year, including exclusive concerts, giveaways, shooting mtvU series and more. For more information about mtvU, and a complete programming schedule, visit www.mtvU.com.

mtvU also owns and operates the College Media Network, the largest interactive network of online college newspapers in the US, and RateMyProfessors.com, the Internet's largest listing of collegiate professor ratings. The College Media Network comprises nearly 600 campus publications that serve institutions including Brown University, the University of Illinois, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin and Duke University, with a combined enrollment of over 5.5 million students, reaching an average of 5 million unique users each month. RateMyProfessors.com reaches approximately 2.9 million college students each month, via the site's more than 6.6 million student-generated ratings of over 1,000,000 college professors.