Four COM Students Win Prizes in the Filmanthropy Project

The Filmanthropy Project, a nonprofit initiative that encourages philanthropy, recognized four COM students in its latest collegiate competition.

There were 39 winning films in all with the top productions earning a $10,000 prize.  All the productions had to be shot on and edited on HD and Hothouse Productions used its new HD equipment for the job.

The winning teams were the following:

Leah Garvin, Tim Heintzelman, and Steven Ohl, the undergraduate team,

produced a remarkable story on The Boston Foundation for Sight.

Divya Nair, Matthew Lewis, and Joshua Poole, the graduate production team, created  a moving story about Catholic Charities of Boston: Refugee Immigration Services which helps refugees and immigrants adjust to life in America.

Special Recognition Awards for $5,000 went to the following:

Barbara Chanin produced, shot and edited Grand Circle Foundation: Little Brothers Friends of Elderly. Some of the shooting was done by fellow Hothouse participant Kiki Zhao.

Honorable Mention went to Shehram Mokhtar for a video on The Yawkey Foundation's Women's Lunch Place. Kiki Zhao also helped to shoot on this production.

Next spring, Hothouse students will have the opportunity to compete in the Filmanthropy Project again.

About the Filmanthropy Project:

The Philanthropy Project is an exciting, ambitious nonprofit initiative funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Our mission is to enhance America's culture of generosity by inspiring and enabling every man, woman, and child to become a philanthropist. We are accomplishing this by using the moving image to tell the untold stories of our nation's 72,000 foundations and their innovative good works ... along with the stories of citizen philanthropists who are "giving and glowing" in their communities nationwide.

http://news.aol.com/philanthropy/philanthropy-mission

For more information, check out:

http://news.aol.com/philanthropy/nc/article/feel-the-glow/472438