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Public invited to SCC’s first Winter Shorts Film Festival on Jan. 24
Somerset Community College Theatre will hold its first “Winter Shorts Film Festival” on Saturday, January 24th. The event will offer participants workshops and an evening of original short films in a variety of genres.
Free filmmaking workshops will be available to participants during the day and the screening of the nine official entries will take place on Stoner Little Theatre’s “big screen” at 7:30 pm. Festival audiences will have the opportunity to engage in a question and answer session with the filmmakers. The theatre is located in Stoner Hall on the SCC Somerset Campus North.
At 3 p.m. on the day of the Festival, Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer Jason Stogsdill will conduct a workshop in editing. At 5 p.m. members of the World Stunt Association of Kentucky will conduct a workshop on fight scenes for film. Those wishing to attend the workshops must contact the festival producer, Steve Cleberg, at Steve.Cleberg@kctcs.edu to reserve a slot.
At 7:30 p.m., the Winter Shorts Film Festival’s nine official entries will be shown to a festival audience. Admission to the viewing is free.
“WCHS Animation Project 08” is an Animation/Documentary film project produced by Art Video Productions. It demonstrates the combination of basic art and animation techniques taught at Wayne County High School.
The winner of SCC’s September 2009 48-Hour Film Festival, A Fistful of Trouble, will also be shown. It is a western produced by Kaleidoscope Pictures. Notorious “Buckshot” Bill is back! Can Sherriff Shepherd stop him in time?
This year’s entries include:
Street Smarts a crime drama was produced in New Jersey and shot in New York Zarrangelo Flix. In the heart of New York City, two men battle it out in a game of deception.
The Daredevils Stunt Team will present the Year of the Bat. This entry is an action film that incorporates martial arts and ancient storytelling in its presentation.
Julie’s New Gig is a drama produced by Jason Garrett. De Koffie Boon’s most faithful customer experiences a night of reawakening after rejecting his “usual” and decides on a new drink.
The science fiction entry to the Festival is entitled The Janitor. It is produced by Stonehedge Productions. It tells the story of an unsuspecting janitor who comes face-to-face with a space/time conundrum.
Dusk of the Dead is a horror project produced by Kaleidoscope Pictures. In a small Midwestern town, three survivors of a monstrous epidemic must band together to survive!
A comedic educational music video entitled The Glucose Breakdown is produced and presented by 12 Set Productions. This film, which began as a biology project and turned into a music video, is a short song intended to take a whole new comedic approach to learning.
Vitruvius’ Toybox is an experimental animated piece conceived and produced by Dennis Michael Iannuzzi. Iannuzzi’s short has appeared in nearly 100 film festivals and has won numerous awards. The film starts with the Golden Section Relationships (Golden means) in a variety of forms and then improvises away from those relationships into a more free-form style of animation.
An awards ceremony will follow the screening of the films and awards will be given for “Best Film,” “Best Director,” “Outstanding Technical Accomplishment,” “Outstanding Creative Accomplishment,” “Best Original Screenplay,” “Best Leading Performance,” “Best Supporting Performance,” and “Best Ensemble Performance.”
Further information regarding the Winter Shorts Film Festival may be obtained by contacting Fine Arts Assistant Sherry Crabtree at 451-6766. Or emailing her at Sherry.Crabtree@kctcs.edu.
Somerset Community College is a comprehensive two-year institution of higher education. SCC has campuses in Somerset and London, centers in Clinton, McCreary, Casey and Russell Counties. The website is www.somerset.kctcs.edu. Call for admission and registration information toll free at 1-877-629-9722.
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