Film student wins honor at SD film festival
Film Studies student Conor Holt won Best Family Film for The Librarian’s Assistant, a short film he entered in the South Dakota Film Festival in Aberdeen, S. D., last month. You can see Conor’s film at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU-EpkhSljM
Other student screenings included Ben Pimlott’s Foli Simultanee and Patrick Wynne’s Timeline Alpha. Faculty screenings included Ray Rea’s film, Cat’s Cradle, and Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson’s film Sveit. Rea and Kristjansson-Nelson, along with Film Studies instructor Anthony Ada, accompanied 30 students to the festival, which featured guest composer Kyle Eastwood, a regular collaborator on films with his director/actor father Clint Eastwood. The younger Eastwood composed music for Letters from Iwo Jima, Million Dollar Baby and Gran Torino. Eastwood led a workshop on scoring and music composition for film.
The festival included a workshop and panel discussion on diversity and the business of acting run by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), with guest presenters Chris Eyre (Director, Smoke Signals), Rene Haynes (Casting Director, Twilight saga) and others.