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Professor Gustavo Mercado’s feature film, Saturnalia, wins multiple awards during film festival run

Professor Mercado’s feature film, Saturnalia, which was produced with an all student crew from the Department of Film & Media Studies, has won multiple awards during its film festival run this summer:

Columbia Gorge International Film Festival – Special Jury Feature Award
Kingston NY Film Festival – Best Feature Award
Chain NYC Film Festival – Best Cinematography Award
Chain NYC Film Festival – Best Actress Award
Woods Hole Film Festival – Best actress Award
Cincinnati Film Festival – Best Narrative Feature

Saturnalia has also just been announced as an official selection at the prestigious Cincinnati Film Festival, and will screen there later this month.

Saturnalia official trailer from Gustavo Mercado on Vimeo.

PUZZLES: When Hate Came to Town – featured on Huffington Post

IMA student David Pavlosky and Prof. Tami Gold’s latest film titled PUZZLES: When Hate Came to Town featured on Huffington Post

“Though the homophobic act took place in 2006, the story is just starting to get told now through the documentary Puzzles: When Hate Came to Town, and it resonates strongly in light of the recent rash of anti-LGBT hate crimes.”
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