I The National Broadcasting Society hosted the 5 Minute Film Festival for its second year in the fall, which encouraged students from all departments to step behind the camera and create. Whether the creations were masterpieces or mistakes was completely up to the audience, who also judged the competition. Taking on a format similar to that of a Hollywood film festival, the 5 Minute Film Festival featured short films produced by different groups on campus and gave out awards for first, second and third place, as well as awards for worst film, best club film and best film created in the 48 hours before the festival. The event was described as "a festival celebrating the best, worst and even the completely mediocre films made by Harding students. The only limits are that films must be less than 5 minutes in length and must be Harding appropriate; other than that anything goes." The festival was first created in the spring of 2010, based on the Honors College version of the event called the Exit 45 Film Festival in the fall of 2008. "Our sponsor encouraged us to create a fund raiser to generate revenue for our club," festival director Grant Dillion said. "One of the ideas we tossed around in the meeting was a film festival. I volunteered to take the project on and I have created, designed and sustained the project ever since." New to the festival this semester was the "48 Hour Film" category. "The idea of having a campus-wide 48 hour event started when Itried to register for the national event a couple weeks ago, but Harding's security block kept me from registering," senior LaRell Reynolds, creator and winner of the 48 Hour Film category, said. "Basically the idea is to make a film in 48 hours, and you are given four items: a genre, a prop, a line of dialogue and a character's name. You are supposed to use all items in your film." After all the films were shown, filmmakers took the stage for a question and answer session in which they talked about their films and took questions from the audience. Simultaneously, a group of volunteers furiously tallied the votes in preparation for the awards ceremony at the end of the evening. When all the votes were counted, the emcee announced the winners. First place went to "The Admin Avenger," directed by senior Collin Yearry. Second place wentto "The Delivery," directed by sophomores Tanner Anderson, Wade O'Dear and Kyle Williams, and third place went to "A Storm in a Glass," directed by senior Lucy Marchena.The award for Best Club Film went to "Evolution of Music," directed by junior Matt Fahey of Beta Omega Chi. The winner in the Worst Film category was senior Nathan Covington for "The Bison Hunter." Reynolds won the award forthe Best 48 Hour Film with "Be My Friend." Winners went home with trophies as well as a multitude of gifts and gift cards donated by local businesses. Dillion left with the satisfaction of knowing the event had been a success. "This festival isn't about prestigious art or serious intellectual discussion," Dillion said. "It's about coming together and having fun and sharing in the collective creativity of the student body." Heidi Tabor 3 2 student life I ~· td' ,1( . "' , ' ... '\' ~t) r. ;· .~ . ,, ,, ' .l ... .. .. I • :~ i •• .. ta IE .. -- • • ' r '· t I • ., J ·""" ... \; ., C) ' ~ I • '"'
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