2008 Student Films

 
 
 
Dark and Bloody Ground: The Story of an Open Grave
Kevin King
University of California San Diego
55 min

“Dark and Bloody Ground: The Story of an Open Grave,” is about the 1995 murder and attempted rape in a small Kentucky town of an elderly woman and the 15-year-old convicted for the crimes.  It won the intensely competitive Gold Circle Award for outstanding student film from the Caucus for Television Producers, Writers and Directors Foundation. 

 
 
 
Small Avalanches
Gillian Munro
Chapman University

16 min 

Small Avalanches takes place during the summer of 1971 and follows a singular event in the life of a thirteen year-old girl named Nancy. Spending her afternoons at her Uncle’s gas station in the hopes of seeing people and being seen, Nancy encounters an older well-to-do man from the city who is stopping for gas. As she is walking home at the end of the day, the man returns and follows her. Nancy soon finds herself in a situation that profoundly affects her childhood innocence forever. 

 
 
 
Joburg
Thabo Wolfaardt
UCLA

22 min 

A young newspaper vendor struggles to care for his ailing brother. A pregnant woman discovers a terrible secret about her fiance. At the height of their desperation, these two worlds collide in a life-altering event.