Video Club premieres two-day film showcase

By Kristina Walton
Staff Writer

Fourth annual screening of student productions is slated for May 3-4

North Lake College’s Video Club will premiere its most recent works at the fourth annual video showcase, Saturday, May 3, through Sunday, May 4.

This year is unique because it is not a festival like in previous years, but a showcase that will last two days. The program will screen the students’ productions produced through the fall and spring semesters.

In the past, the all-day event included many special guests; however, this year the club decided the showcase should focus on presenting students’ works exclusively.

The presentations will vary from 30-second commercials to ten-minute short films. Studio production projects, digital video classes and field production classes will also be shown.

Last year’s production team, Loose Cannons from NLC, succeeded in bringing home the first-place trophy in the student video college division in last year’s 24 Hour Video Race at the 15th annual Dallas Video Festival.

Recently the video technology students won numerous awards in the television category at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association (TIPA) convention in Corpus Christi.

First place was given in the documentary category to Sara Starks, Tracie Quintero, Chad Bacon and Jacques Star for their work Crossroads.

Two second place awards were given to Cliff Ackerman for a documentary called “9-11...” and for the production of “Blame” by Cheryll Smith, Jaymz Smith, Tom Post, and Adam Larke.

Three honorable mention awards were awarded for the production of “The Human Race”to Sara Starks, Tom Post and Chad Bacon. Honorable mention awards were also given to Karen Shuey for her production of “Wesley-Rankin” and to Joel Smith for his spot commercial entitled “Motion.”

NLC competed against 8 four-year universities while no other DCCCD college entered in this category.

The Video Showcase will be held in the television studio, P-250 at North Lake College. Admission is free. Food and refreshments will be available during intermission. For more information, contact Andy Chiles, director of the video technology department at NLC, at (972) 273-3571.