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It was a summer job on a farm that gave Bryan Sih the blueprint for his film 冬天和春天, which took the top prize at the 35th annual 红石电影节 last night. The drama, about two adults wrestling with their impending parenthood, and at the same time dealing with a mysterious force killing their sheep, had some real-life inspiration from a fight between Sih and a friend while they worked on a farm in Bow, N.H.

“One day my friend got mad at me, and this interesting dynamic formed because he was angry,” says Sih (COM’14), who also took home the evening’s best screenplay award. “Everything from watering plants to feeding the animals changed. I thought it was cinematic in the way we were showing emotion through silent gestures.”

The 红石电影节 is an annual competition showcasing the most promising work by students and recent grads of the College of Communication 电影制作和编剧项目. 该活动由媒体大亨、维亚康姆公司董事长雷石东（1994年出生）赞助。

Second prize was awarded to Fannar Thor Arnarsson (COM’14), director of 誓言, about an abused mother-to-be who does what she must for the safety of her child. 之后, 艾米丽·希恩（Emily Sheehan）的作品《COM’15》以其澳门威尼斯人注册婚外情中的选择的故事摘得三等奖。 Sheehan also won this year’s Adrienne Shelly Production Grant for directing 跳过石头, a film about an estranged brother and sister and their relationship with their father. The $5,000 grant is awarded to a female filmmaker by the Adrienne Shelly基金会 in honor of producer, writer, and actress Shelly (COM’87), best known for her film 女服务员, who was 被谋杀的 in her New York City apartment in 2006. 前三名得奖者获赠佳能单反相机器材。

“Tonight we give the audience a chance to look at talented students who will one day make their mark in the filmmaking profession,” said Paul Schneider, chair of the COM film and television department. He announced that the Redstone Foundation has given a gift that will fund “in perpetuity” the 红石电影节. “Even when the COM building is gone,” he joked.

Asked about some of the dark, powerful themes explored in this year’s festival, ranging from a sexual assault to domestic abuse, Redstone faculty director Jan Egleson, a COM associate professor of the professional practice of film and television, said that COM is open to all voices, and the themes were “what was in the water this year.”

Several 前红石电影节获奖者 are successful Hollywood players, among them Gary Fleder (COM’85), director of 失控的陪审团, Richard Gladstein (CGS’81, COM’83), producer of 低俗小说《谍影重重》 and 寻找梦幻岛, and Steve Brill (COM’84), screenwriter of 重物.

The other finalists in this year’s festival were Jack Garrett (COM’14), who made 艾伯特活泼, about the funeral of a young man who had repeatedly faked his own death; Julia Iglesias (COM’14), creator of 艾达的85, about an octogenarian’s raucous birthday party; Jim Dandee (COM’14), director of 凤凰, about a young woman who finds herself in a compromised position after a long night out and must try to learn what really happened; and Sara Doering (COM’15) (who goes by the screen name Xavery Robin), director of 天津司机, a documentary about a female cab driver in Tianjin, China.

Dandee and Joy Song (COM’15) took the best sound design award for 凤凰; 丹迪还因该片获得了最佳剪辑奖。 他们收到了Avid编辑软件和ProTools软件。 Cheryn Park (COM’15) won the best cinematography award and Canon DSLR camera equipment for her work on 誓言。

由编剧弗莱德和斯科特·罗森伯格（COM ' 85）赞助的弗莱德-罗森伯格短篇剧本竞赛，表彰了三名在剧本创作方面表现出色的学生。 A check for $1,250 went to the award’s first prize winner, Max Cohen (COM’17), who wrote the script 塔尔萨最奇怪的一天. Ciara Duggan (COM’16) picked up $750 and second place for her script 不是在. Jon Giardiello (COM’15) received the $500 third prize for 献给法蒂玛的玫瑰.

While Duggan doesn’t currently have plans to produce her script, the first year graduate student in COM’s screenwriting program says she is excited about possibly collaborating with a production student, a trend that she says is happening more frequently.

参加比赛的影片最初是为COM电影，电视或视频制作课程或作为澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究生论文项目而制作的。 决赛选手和优胜者将通过两个步骤选出。 一个由制片、编剧和电影专业毕业生组成的委员会首先对提交的作品进行筛选，最终确定入围名单。 然后另一个由电影行业专业人士组成的评委会提名获奖者。 This year’s winners were chosen by documentary filmmaker and editor Jeanne Jordan, filmmaker and executive director of the 中位数的基础 Lyda Kuth, Emmy-winning cinematographer Paul Goldsmith, and Boston-based actor, director, and producer Lewis Wheeler.

波士顿红石电影节（Boston 红石电影节）之后是3月13日在纽约举行的红石电影节（主要为校友展示），4月2日在洛杉矶举行的红石电影节（对学生和校友开放）。 红石校友短片大赛是洛杉矶电影节的一部分，奖金为500美元。