A look into The Red Carpet Film Festival
Posted by The Skyliner on April 21st, 2010Jamey Williams
Staff Writer
On Tuesday, April 6, the second annual Red Carpet Film Festival was held in the Hayes Ministry Center. Myra Ruiz, reporter for WYFF Channel 4, hosted the event.
Awards were bestowed for four categories of films including public service announcements/commercials as well as 5-, 10- and 30- minute films. The top five entries in each category were recognized, with the top three winners receiving gift certificates.
The films were screened the week before the film festival by judges from the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, Tenn. This panel of judges consisted of Megan Alexander, correspondent for Inside Edition, Phil Bransom, president of Bransom Media Group, and Dave Jones, founder and president of MarketingMinistries.com.
A notable winner this year was the film Foxhole by Justin Robinson, freshman broadcast media.
Participation from several of North Greenville University’s departments made this event possible. Works from the art department were displayed next to the red carpet and musical entertainment was provided by Ashley Griffin, junior history, Katie Griffin, freshman psychology, Jacob Herod, junior broadcast media, and Amanda Gerrard, senior broadcast media.
Carmen Miller, senior broadcast media and president of the Film Club, was instrumental in planning the festival.
In describing the scope and purpose of the event, she said, “Basically this event is a conglomeration of arts. Film…incorporates so many aspects of art. Film first has to be written, then taken to a storyboard to be sketched out and then,…after filming the actors, there is editing involved while using computer imagery. Finally, music is added. It encompasses all of the fine arts, so we tried to express that throughout the evening with the live music, display of art work and finally showing the films that were created.
The goal for the NGU Film Club is to have this film festival take place in order to encourage students to learn more about the film industry….[In] the end, we hope to have a film major through the increased interest in film.”
Tags: Spring 2010, Vol. 110 - Issue 12