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COM’s Kornechuck takes first prize at sold-out Redstone
A capacity crowd packed the Tsai Performance Center to watch seven short films produced by BU undergraduate and graduate filmmakers at the 25th annual Redstone Film Festival February 8. “The doors opened at 6:30 p.m., and the 550 seats were filled within 10 minutes,” says Bill Linsman, a COM visiting associate professor of film and codirector of this year’s festival. “We had to turn away between 150 and 200 people.”
Dacia Kornechuck won first prize and received $2,000 for her 15-minute film Nikki’s Fight. Kornechuck (COM’05), a graduate student in the film and television program, describes her film as an honest and inspiring portrait of a 17-year-old girl from a working class family of boxers who is training for an upcoming fight against a United States Marine. With her loyal trainer and stepfather Doug, Nikki struggles to make a name for herself in the male-dominated world of boxing.
Christopher Hlas (COM’04) took second prize and $1,500 for his 10-minute film Interlude, in which a woman’s near-death experience results in her life flashing before her eyes in a rhythmic and musical sequence. Abbe Novak (COM’05) and Charles Castell (COM’05) tied for third place and each picked up $750. Novak’s Space presents six stories interlaced with secrets, surprises, and revelations unveiled amidst the chaos of a supermarket parking lot. Blind is Castell’s account of a deaf boy who receives cochlear implants and struggles to understand the cacophonous world of sound.
The seven films soon will be presented to a committee of Los Angeles–based BU alumni involved in the entertainment industry, which will select three winners to be screened at a spring break gala held at the Raleigh Studios in Los Angeles on Thursday, March 10. The BU alumni and other representatives from the film industry attending the gala may be surprised by what they see this year, says Linsman: “I’ve seen results from previous Redstones, and in my opinion, this was by far the best. It was a solid, well-diversified representation of quality professional work. They all could have been winners.”
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February 2005
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