Animation wins at first NE festival

    NE Campus held its first Fall Film Festival last month.

    The festival was created to give TCC’s amateur filmmakers a chance to show off their creations on a large screen in front of an audience.

    The Handmaid’s Tale won first place in the festival. The movie was directed and produced by Liz Heck, Paul Hughes and Jessica Kirkland from the South Campus Cornerstone program.

    The Handmaid’s Tale presented the story of a president who loses a chess match, resulting in the world’s being turned into Legos. The Lego scenes were shot using stop-motion animation and portrayed the Lego characters doing everything from fighting to giving birth.

    The Jacqueri Take Manhattan won the second-place prize. Brandon Stewart directed the film that started with a prank phone call to someone named Roy Reed and finished with a trip to New York. The final scene showed a group of people poking a possibly unconscious guy with a stick.

    Afternoon of Blood, directed and produced by Chris Taylor and Rusty Williams, won third place in the festival. This film was a story about an evil mayor who tires of people having fun and conspires to turn the entire town into zombies. The film was made using action figures and toys as the actors.

    Other films included in the festival were Descent of the Jester by Justin Schulke and Jeff Cheney, which depicted a practical joke gone horribly wrong, and 2001 Summer Geology Trip by K.C. Jones, which depicted the exploits of students on a geology trip.

    Student activities sponsored the film festival and Don Pablo’s, student activities and the NE Campus bookstore contributed by donating prizes.