{"id":3744,"date":"2018-04-20T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3744"},"modified":"2018-04-20T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:00:18","slug":"basically-tarantino-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3744","title":{"rendered":"Basically Tarantino Film Festival Participants Receive Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Emma Grosskopf<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year marked RC\u2019s third annual Basically Tarantino Film Festival, and on April 5, six films were shown in the Ballroom in front of an audience of students, faculty and staff. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These films, analyzed by a panel of judges, were nominated for different awards based on their content. Every film shown was nominated for an award. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The awards up for grabs were Audience Choice, Best Drama, Best Comedy, Best Actor, Best Actress (two new categories since last year), Most Creative Use of a Required Line and Most Creative Use of a Required Prop. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Basically Tarantino film requirements were very loose, with only two required lines and two required props. The required lines for this year were \u201cwiggle her big toe\u201d and \u201cbad hombres\u201d, while the required props were a fidget spinner and a coconut. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The loose parameters for the competition allowed student filmmakers to express themselves creatively without having to limit themselves. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Junior Harrison Mines\u2019 film Tales from University and Other Urban Legends won both Best Comedy and Audience Choice, while seniors Erik Weed and Meg Northern\u2019s short film Headlights won Best Drama. Senior Ben Mowers\u2019 film Looking Forward won Most Creative Use of a Required Line and also Best Actress, thanks to the performance of senior Abby Gray. Jake Bryant, who directed and starred in his film Hold the Light, won for Best Actor, while Gavin Casey\u2019s Today\u2019s the Day won the award for Most Creative Use of a Required Prop. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The awards ceremony also included the recognition of the 2018 RC Student Activities Hall of Fame awards, which were awarded to seniors Jose Alvarado, Abby Gray, David Hall and Ben Mowers. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Emma Grosskopf This year marked RC\u2019s third annual Basically Tarantino Film Festival, and on April 5, six films were shown in the Ballroom in front of an audience of students, faculty and staff. These films, analyzed by a panel of judges, were nominated for different awards based on their content. Every film shown&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/BASICALLY-TARANTINO_Large-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}