Open Frame Student Film Festival Awards - 2008

Release Date:  May 8, 2008
 
 
Malone College recently hosted the seventh annual Open Frame student film festival recently on the Canton campus.  Since the spring of 2002, Malone College students have written, directed, produced, scored, acted in, and edited nearly 70 short films.  The Open Frame exists to invite creators, performers, crafts-persons, and audiences to experience renewed vision through film.    Award winning student filmmakers for 2008 were:
BEST SOUND: Roommates: Senior Year - Mike Coates, a graduating senior commercial music technology major from East Sparta, OH;

BEST EDITING: Questionable Behavior - Rick Thomas, a graduating senior communications media major from Massillon, OH;

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Questionable Behavior - Aaron Wagster, a graduating senior visual arts education major from Beaver Falls, PA;

ACTOR IN A LEAD ROLE: Questionable Behavior - Jake Miller, a graduating senior communications media major from Bloomingdale, OH;       

FRIEND OF MALONE FILM: Roommates: Senior Year - Chad Kapper (for cinematography) of StoneKap Productions, North Canton, OH;

BEST SCREENPLAY: Questionable Behavior – (NOTE:  Every line in this dark comedy was in the form of a question!) Dan Walton, a junior comprehensive communication studies major from Canal Fulton, OH;   SPECIAL JURY AWARD: BEST ORIGINAL CONCEPT - Dreams - Rick Thomas, a graduating senior communications media major from Massillon, OH;

SPECIAL JURY AWARD: CHOREOGRAPHY - Roommates: Senior Year - Joe Siebert, a graduating senior communications media major from Magnolia, OH;

BEST FILM: Roommates: Senior Year - Joe Siebert, a graduating senior communications media major from Magnolia, OH; and

AUDIENCE AWARD: Roommates: Senior Year - Joe Siebert, a graduating senior communications media major from Magnolia, OH.

A jury made up of professional in the media/entertainment/film industry served as judges for the festival.  This year’s jury included:
 
D an Kane, entertainment editor for the Canton Repository. Dan's incisive and witty columns remarkably profile the best local entertainment in Stark County -- and point his readers to a much broader cultural scene nationally and internationally.
 
Kim Ann Pfau, directs a monthly Independent Short Film program through the Stark County Library System. Kim Ann has served for several years on the shorts selection committee for Cleveland International Film Festival & she plans and programs many other art film, independent film and short film events for Northeast Ohio cinecasts. 
 
Robb Hankins, CEO of ARTS IN STARK is credited by many for bringing an arts renaissance to Stark County. Hankins has mobilized artists, funding, events, space & time to create a blossoming arts community in downtown Canton, Ohio and throughout Stark County.
 
Connie Collins, filmmaker, has written and directed short films that have played at regional, national, and international film festivals. Connie also writes plays and wrote and directed the important documentary film, Remember Nhu.
 
John K. Bucher, Jr., faculty member at the Los Angeles Film Studies Center, is an award-winning filmmaker who has produced film, television, and video programming in more than 30 countries around the world including Iraq, Mongolia, Cuba, and China. His documentary work on AIDS in Africa won both Telly and Omni Awards in 2003.  
 
Seth Thomas, a 2005 Malone College graduate and alumnus of the Los Angeles Film Studies Center, works in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, CA and continues to travel around the nation performing with a professional comedy improv troupe. Seth continues to write scripts, extending some of the talents that he demonstrated when a student at Malone, winning multiple Open Frame awards including BEST FILM.
 
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