Short Film Festival

3233 East Speedway Boulevard,Tucson AZ 85716

02 May, 2022

Description

Watch students go head-to-head in a new kind of pitch competition where they will be judged on the short films that describe their venture. Students in ENTR 485 Innovating: Creating the Future, the entrepreneurship capstone course for Eller seniors, team up to build a venture. At the end of each semester, student teams pitch their ideas in class, and the top team from each section is invited to compete in the Short Film Festival, where they present their pitches in a short film format. ENTR 485 ensures that Eller seniors graduate with creative and innovative critical thinking skills, so they stand apart from the crowd as they start–and build–their careers. Reflecting Eller College's strong commitment to providing experiential education for the future, ENTR 485 is the summative experience for Eller seniors. In this class, students bring together all of the business skills they have learned throughout their diverse course load, and apply them as they identify and develop a solution to a real-world problem. Students learn to build strong teams by including members with diverse sets of skills, backgrounds and interests. The teams then spend the semester developing an innovation project of their choice. Teams identify customer needs through market research, use the business model canvas and build financial assumptions and pro forma statements. Through this hands-on process of developing an actionable strategic business plan, students learn the tools of innovation and entrepreneurship. ENTR 485 Innovating: Creating the Future demonstrates to students how they can take the skills they've learned in their classes and apply them in the real world. Students complete ENTR 485 armed with the ability to creatively and confidently tackle problems in entrepreneurial, corporate, government or nonprofit environments.