{"id":17947,"date":"2017-04-10T10:02:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=17947"},"modified":"2017-04-10T10:02:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:02:41","slug":"17947_film-students-make-it-to-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/2017\/04\/10\/17947_film-students-make-it-to-the-big-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Students Make it to the Big Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the academic year gets ready to wrap up, SCM film students in the School of Communication and Media have been reeling in some notable achievements.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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Take one, for example, senior film student, Michelle Martinez.  Her senior thesis film \u201cHit Me Up\u201d has been awarded the Carole Fielding Grant by the University Film and Video Association (UFVA). Martinez will present her film at the 71st<\/sup> annual UFVA Conference<\/a> in Los Angeles this summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy film is about a naive teenager who gets her first kiss from a boy who tries to take it further than she’s prepared for, resulting in an abrupt transition from childhood to maturity,\u201d says Martinez.  \u201cIt was filmed in February in Clifton and Englewood and the project is now in post-production.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHit Me Up\u201d is Martinez\u2019s third directorial short film. Her previous work has screened at Montclair Film Festival: New Visions and Project FX Film Festival. Martinez\u2019s 2016 short, \u201cThe Mourning After\u201d will be screening at Hang Onto Your Shorts Festival in May. It was awarded "Best Concept" at Brightside Tavern Film Festival this past March. <\/span><\/p>\n

Take two. Project FX, the Count Basie Theatre’s Statewide Student Film Festival, which is in its third year of searching for New Jersey’s best and brightest student filmmakers, bestowed this year\u2019s awards to SCM students Peter Dolshun and Alexa Werrlein, who took first and second prizes respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dolshun’s "Red" earned him a Sony Digital Movie Camera, Internship Experience at Sony Pictures Classics in New York and a $1,000 cash award.  Werrlein’s "Tiny Worlds" earned her a $750 cash prize.<\/span><\/p>\n

Take three.  Peter Chapman, a freshman film student, had the opportunity to show his film \u201cThe Strings of Things\u201d at the biannual International Video Art Festival of Camag\u00fcey in Cuba this month. Chapman\u2019s film is a short silent film about a young man who struggles with substance abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Strings of Things\u201d was Chapman\u2019s first film he made at Montclair State University, but the newcomer has not be shorted praise. Chapman\u2019s film was also in the MSU New Visions section of the Montclair Film Festival in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not to be undone by its students, the film program has recently received a $7,500 grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to implement a series of below-the-line workshops for filmmaking students.  <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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