WV NATIVE WINS AWARDS AT FILM FESTIVAL:
NEXT SCREENING AT ANNUAL SUTTON FESTIVAL
Publication: HUNTINGTONNEWS.NET
Published: 10/4/2007
Page: Online
Headline: WV NATIVE WINS AWARDS AT FILM FESTIVAL:
NEXT SCREENING AT ANNUAL SUTTON FESTIVAL
Byline: HNN Staff
Sutton, WV (HNN) – The short comedy "Audition" – directed by award- winning filmmaker Sam Holdren – will screen as part of the 2007 West Virginia Filmmakers Film Festival on Friday, October 12, 2007, at 7:25 p.m.
”Audition” and Holdren recently received awards for Best Student Short Film and Best Regional Student Film at the Bluegrass Independent Film Festival in La Grange. KY. Other screenings of the film so far include the Appalachian Film Festival in Huntington, WV; the Bare Bones Int. Film Festival in Muskogee, OK; and the Route 66 Film Festival in Springfield, IL; and next month, the film will screen at the Delaware Valley Film Festival in Hatboro, PA.
"Audition" is an absurd character study about William Ashe, a man who believes in signs. William, an aspiring actor, travels to the big city to audition for a movie and gets sidetracked by murder, mayhem, and mistaken identity.
"Audition," says Holdren, "is a dark love-letter to people who haven't quite found their way in life just yet." Holdren, an M.F.A. candidate in Film & Media Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia, began co-writing the film with friend and current-West Virginia State University graduate student Joseph W. Ng back in July 2004, and then spent the next two years crafting the final product, involving crews in both Philadelphia and Charleston.
With assistance from the West Virginia Film Office, one sequence of the movie was shot in Charleston back in March 2005, and involved local film and theatrical artists/performers. Holdren is a West Virginia native, a graduate of Winfield High School, and a double-graduate of West Virginia State University.
The short will screen at the Landmark Studio of the Arts in Sutton during a screening block that also includes the feature-length films: "Maneater" by David Smith and "16 to Life," by Mandy Sherwood.
More information, along with a trailer, is available at www.auditionmoviesite.com.
