MSUM students participate in 48-hour film competition

After 48 hours of writing, shooting, editing and delivering a short film, a team of MSUM film students won best picture at the Cinethusiasts 48-Hour Film Competition held on MSUM’s campus last weekend. Friday at 7 p.m. teams across the country were given a character and occupation, prop, line of dialogue and a genre. “We had to have a detective/cop […]

Cinethusiasts produce video pieces for Human Relations Awards

MSUM Film Studies (Cinethusiasts Club) recently produced three video pieces as part of the Fargo Human Relations Commission’s 2011 Human Relations Awards. The awards ceremony took place during the MLK Jr. Celebration at the Fargo Theatre.  The video portraits were created to showcase the three award recipients (Taylor Gess, Dwight Schroeder and the FM Community Bike Workshop). The project was […]

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 […]