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An Angelus Student Film Festival winner Harry Kellerman answers an audience member’s question in Case de Cinema, Rome, Italy’s main cinema house, during an “Angelus in Rome” event recently as fellow winner José E. Iglesias Vigil listens.

Angelus Winner, Harry Kellerman, at Casa de Cinema

05/05/08 -- An Angelus Student Film Festival winner Harry Kellerman answers an audience member’s question in Case de Cinema, Rome, Italy’s main cinema house, during an “Angelus in Rome” event recently as fellow winner José E. Iglesias Vigil listens. Kellerman of Columbia University, New York, the 2007 Angelus Priddy Bros. Triumph Award winner and Vigil, Polish National Film School, 2007 Mole-Richardson Production Excellence Award winner, were part of a panel with Harry Barbara Stepansky, American Film Institute, and Nicholas Ozeki, Chapman University, Orange, Calif., the 2006 and 2007 winners respectively of the Excellence in Filmmaking Award. A screening of heir winning Angelus films preceded the panel discussion. Entries are being accepted for the 2008 festival. Click on www.angelus.org.

Monika Moreno at Casa de Cinema

05/05/08 -- Monika Moreno, Director of the Angelus Student Film Festival, speaks with a member of the audience recently after the screenings of several winning Angelus films at Casa de Cinema, Rome’s main cinema house. Father Willy Raymond, CSC, National Director of Family Theater Productions, also is seen speaking with an audience member. Family Theater created the international festival in 1996. For entry and other information for the 2008 festival, click on www.angelus.org.

Tony Sands directs a scene in new Family Theater film

05/05/08 -- Tony Sands directs a scene for Family Theater Productions’ new drama, Assumptions, while Family Theater’s sound engineer, Elli Bazini, holds the boom mike. Sands, Family Theater’s Administrator and a USC film school graduate, also directed Finding Mary. Both films, new episodes of Family Theater Productions’ Manifest Mysteries series, have recently been released for broadcast and are expected to be available in DVD for home and class use in mid-June.

The camera catches actress Ryanne Plaisance portraying a teen emerging from a chapel in simulated sunlight in one of the two Manifest Mysteries dramas recently filmed by Family Theater Productions. The scene was staged at the chapel in Family Theater’s headquarters in Hollywood.

Indoor Sunlight

05/05/08 -- Actress Ryanne Plaisance stands in simulated sunlight as she is filmed in a scene from Family Theater Productions’ Assumptions. That film and Finding Mary were filmed simultaneously and were recently released for broadcast. They will be available in June on DVD for home and classroom use.

Behind the Scenes

 An Angelus Student Film Festival winner Harry Kellerman answers an audience member’s question in Case de Cinema, Rome, Italy’s main cinema house, during an “Angelus in Rome” event recently as fellow winner José E. Iglesias Vigil listens.

05/05/08 - An Angelus Student Film Festival winner Harry Kellerman answers an audience member’s question in Case de Cinema, Rome, Italy’s main cinema house, during an “Angelus in Rome” event recently as fellow winner José E. Iglesias Vigil listens. Kellerman of Columbia University, New York, the 2007 Angelus Priddy Bros. Triumph Award winner and Vigil, Polish National Film School, 2007 Mole-Richardson Production Excellence Award winner, were part of a panel with Harry Barbara Stepansky, American Film Institute, and Nicholas Ozeki, Chapman University, Orange, Calif., the 2006 and 2007 winners respectively of the Excellence in Filmmaking Award. A screening of heir winning Angelus films preceded the panel discussion. Entries are being accepted for the 2008 festival. Click on www.angelus.org.  »

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