{"id":4272,"date":"2019-02-27T20:30:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T01:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=4272"},"modified":"2019-02-27T20:30:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T01:30:40","slug":"so-you-want-to-make-a-film-join-the-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=4272","title":{"rendered":"So You Want to Make a Film? Join the Fest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Charissa Roberson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2019 marks the fourth annual Basically Tarantino Film Festival, a campus-wide competition that seeks to promote filmmaking at Roanoke College and provide aspiring artists with an outlet for their work. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The rules are simple\u2014include this year\u2019s required props and lines, stay within an R-rating and create the film of your choice. This independent mindset is acknowledged by the festival\u2019s nod to Quentin Tarantino, a recognized maverick in the film industry. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI think the college has really strong creative writers,\u201d says Joe Boucher, Director of Student Activities, who has overseen Basically Tarantino since the beginning, \u201cIt\u2019s great that they can take it into a new area and bring their writing to life.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Freshman Jasey Roberts, who is currently working on his film for the 2019 festival, says, \u201cI wanted to see if it was something I could accomplish. I\u2019m most excited about seeing people\u2019s reactions, critiques\u2026That\u2019s my favorite part of the artistic process, people telling me what I can do better next time.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Student films will premiere in the Wortmann Ballroom on March 27, followed by an event at the historic Grandin Theater. For interested participants, a meeting on Feb. 25 will provide an opportunity to get involved and meet other filmmakers, and rules\/requirements are available at the information desk. Registration is open until March 13.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Charissa Roberson 2019 marks the fourth annual Basically Tarantino Film Festival, a campus-wide competition that seeks to promote filmmaking at Roanoke College and provide aspiring artists with an outlet for their work. The rules are simple\u2014include this year\u2019s required props and lines, stay within an R-rating and create the film of your choice&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272","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=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}