CONWAY, Ark. (April 25, 2014) – The fifth annual Red Brick Film Fest was a box office smash. The event, hosted by Dean Jim Wiltgen and Assistant Director of Student Activities Brent Owens, was held Wednesday evening.
The program, catered by the Hendrix Culinary Club, featured 11 student-made films, as well as an introductory film that included a surprise cameo by Hendrix President Bill Tsutsui.
The
2014 Red Brick Film Festival winners include:
- Best in Show ($500): Ice Cream Lobotomy (Alison Bair, Kate Engler)
- Hendrix Spirit ($300): Yawn (Wil Chandler, Tyler Webb)
- Best Documentary ($300):
Our Hendrix Folk: The Making of Hear
Hendrix (Rane Peerson)
- Stylistic Brilliance ($100): Ice Cream Lobotomy (Alison Bair, Kate Engler)
- Most Affective ($100): Peter's Joke, the Untold Story (Daniel Grear, Nathanael Drahn)
- Best Writing ($50): Yawn (Wil Chandler, Tyler Webb)
- Best Acting ($50): ensemble cast of Yawn (Daniel Grear, Nathanael Drahn, Lyndsey Czapansky)
- Best Original Film Score ($50): Our Hendrix Folk (Sunny Haynes, Charley Ford, Hope Montgomery, Katie Casper, Zach Saul & Nathanael Drahn)
- Audience Choice ($400): Yawn (Wil Chandler, Tyler Webb)
Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the sixth consecutive year, Hendrix was named one of the country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by
U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix
is featured in the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change
the Way You Think about Colleges, as well as the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, and the 2014 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist
Church since 1884. For more information, visit
www.hendrix.edu.