SCARECROW Awarded MPSE Golden Reel!

Patrick Knipe and Paul Fonarev won the Motion Picture Sound Editors' Verna Fields Golden Reel Award for their sound editing work on SCARECROW. Special thanks to the rest of the sound crew, including Amy Reynolds, David Lankton, Sung Rok Choi, Chris Brenner, Eric Marks, Adam Habib, Art Baum, and Amber Beard. Very special thanks to our USC sound mentors Midge Costin, Doug Vaughan, and David Bondelevitch, and industry mentor Dane Davis.

Brandon Carroll in THE CONSPIRATOR

Brandon Carroll, who played the lead Jack in SCARECROW, was recently filmed in THE CONSPIRATOR, Robert Redford's Civil War Era epic concerning the events following and surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The film is slated for 2011.

Awards News

SCARECROW recently won Best Student Film at the New Jersey Film Festival, Best Narrative Film at the International Christian Film Festival, and the Storyteller Award at the Redemptive Film Fest. Since April the film has won 10 awards and played at 20 festivals throughout North America. We will soon begin submitting to festivals abroad.

Shorts Competition

SCARECROW is a Top 5 finalist in the Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival. Screening and Ceremony to be held on August 8 at 3 pm in the Katherine Cornell Theatre.

The address is: 54 Spring Street, Vineyard Haven, MA 0256.