Winners Circle (Pictured Left to Right, with FVS Advisor Dennis Conway): First Place, Church Barnas, Robert Massey, James McCanney, Nick Gillis; Second Place, Max Steele (accepting for Taren Pineset); and Third Place, Shawna Lucas.

 

FROM: DENNIS CONWAY, FOR THE FVS                             DATE: MAY 1, 2018

 

            The Film & Video Society held its Spring 2018 End-of-the-Semester Showcase on Sunday, April 29, featuring 20 of the Mass Media program’s best student productions. The two- hour show was held in the Student Union Theatre, and winners earned gift certificates to Best Buy for the Audience Favorite category, as voted by the attendees.  The program included ads, PSA’s, music videos, short films, mini-documentaries, promotional, and news pieces.

 

Director Church Barnas won First Place for his comedy / fantasy piece, “Council of Joe.”  The plot featured a young man named Joe, whose inner thoughts are depicted onscreen by a bickering “council” of actors, who guide and push him to make quality decisions about his life.  The piece was written by Nick Gillis and Church Barnas.  The Assistant Directors were Lacey Crandall and Robert Massey. It was produced and edited by James McCanney. Max Steele played Joe, and Jonathan Bice, Alize Robinson, Dalton Yawn, and Robert Massey’s voice played the Council.

 

Second Place went to Taren Pineset, for her comedy, “The Parking Guys,” about   the Parking Violations Bureau, and their daily struggles to catch parking rules violators, starring Max Steele and Jennifer Rainer.   Third Place went to “Little Actors, Big Dreams,” a documentary by Shawna Lucas about the Little Actors Theatre in Valdosta, where young people gain confidence through onstage performance.

 

FVS Faculty Advisor Dennis Conway and President Jonathan Bice hosted the event.  FVS Officers Max Steele, Evan Creamer, and incoming President Peter Falkenhausen served as Production Crew.

 

The FVS will hold its Fall 2018 Showcase in November, as well as other events in the Fall.  The group meets on the first and third Wednesdays of the month at 7 p.m. in the Mass Media Building, to encourage student video production, and discuss film industry issues.   It will also host the South Georgia Film Festival, to be held in spring of 2019.