The film Limbo won the best overall film, earning a trophy for Mulgrave School! Team members, Jack Morin, Jae Hyun Seung, David Sui, Aiden Carere, Isabella Manderson, Isaac Hole and Luke Seybold each won a $10,000 scholarship to attend a programme of their choice at Vancouver Film School. Elements of the film were inspired by, Ten Cloverfield Lane, Lost and Room.
Aiden Carere took home a second trophy for Limbo in the category of Best Senior Performance, the top price in the category. Aiden received a full scholarship to attend Vancouver Film School's Acting Essentials program.
Summary:
After an apocalypse, a young man who has grown up in a small room with only the company of a robotic radio must decide between safety through captivity, and freedom with uncertainty and danger.
Winning best technical in the senior division was the film titled, House of Vanity. The film was shot in a similar style to the director, Nicholas Winding Refn. The script was a joint effort of Richard Yang and Ekalan Hou while Chuiwen Kong, Jerry Zhang, Tina Zhang, Aiden Deslippe and Chelsea Yang collaborated on the production process.
Summary:
This film explores the theme of pretension and how it ultimately results in jealousy and destruction through a series of actions displayed by symbolic stuffed animals.
Rock Time, produced by grade ten film students, Max Elysen, Ingrid White, Adam Jamal, Natasha Kearns, Jarick Vance and Meridy Meikle came in third place for Best Group Performance in the Junior Division.
Summary:
The film follows the making of a mockumentary featuring a misunderstood artist.
In addition, Richard Yang won the Archibald Award for most passionate filmmaker. Second runner up for this award was Poppy Shaw and Madeleine Kirkwood for their work on the film, The Following.
Summary:
A supernatural force haunts a girl through her waking life. She becomes caught between the natural world and the material world.
For a students' perspective on the night's happenings, read the below reflection by Camisha Rahmatian
This past weekend, on Saturday November 26th, Mulgrave hosted its annual ZOOM film festival awards show. The night was set up to be a scene perfect for passionate film makers. As a film student, Zoom awards has always been a very entertaining night, and being in a room full of other filmmakers who have so much experience and drive is a feeling like no other.
The night started off with a red carpet entrance, fit for the stars. Walking up the stairs, there were decorations everywhere, and installations representing the prop and theme of this year's contest being "between a rock and a hard place" and the incorporation of a radio. Many of the films did an amazing job at work with those requirements.
After entering the awards show, and walking around and talking to other students, it was time to make their way to the theatre where the awards were about to commence. The films shown were spectacular and the winning and nominated groups should be very proud of their creations.
There was something for everyone on this noteworthy night, and generally everyone seemed to have a very fun and incredible experience, through the production processes of their films and the awards they received, that were well deserved!
Congratulations again to all of the winning groups, and I'm sure everyone is just as eager as I am to see next year's submissions.