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Print this article Palm Beaches Student Showcase of Films Finalists (released 3/12/2019) By Kimberly Burke The Palm Beaches Student Showcase of Films winners will be revealed April 5th at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. The awards ceremony will be hosted by actor entertainer host of PBS South Florida's "On the Town in The Palm Beaches", Frank Licari. The finalists of the showcase were announced March 7 as well as the award show theme surrounding legendary Actor/Director and longtime contributor to the Student Showcase of Films, Mr Burt Reynolds. Vanilla Ice will be presenting the Vanilla Ice Music Video Award and more celebrity guests are to be announced as the April 5 event gets closer. Michelle Hillery, Palm Beach County's Deputy Film Commissioner and Executive Producer of the Student Showcase of Films stated, "This year, the Student Showcase of Films received almost 700 student submissions from over 50 different schools across Florida. Our judging panel of 45 industry professionals had a tough assignment choosing the finalists, and at the live awards show, the audience will experience firsthand the outstanding level of talent found in Florida schools!" The red carpet awards show will be at the Keith C. Elaine Johnson World Performing Arts Center at Lynn University with pre-show festivals starting at 9:30a.m. and the live awards show starting at 10a.m. The event is free and the public is encouraged to attend. An RSVP by March 22nd will secure your place at the event. RSVP connect by emailing ajordat@pbfilm.com or calling 561-233-1000. Here are the student finalists as announced in alphabetical order: Burt Reynolds & Sara Fuller Scholarship Finalists Joey Aliberto, G-Star School of the Arts (Palm Springs) Valerie Betts, A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts (West Palm Beach) Andre Sanchez, Palm Beach Gardens High School (Palm Beach Gardens) Roberto Torres, A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts (West Palm Beach) High School Feature/Short Finalists Amaya Cranston, Dixie Hollins High School (Seminole), Hero Isaiah Fernandez, West Broward High School (Pembroke Pines), The Art of Our Odds Molly Smith, Monteverde Academy (Monteverde), I Don't Know College Feature/Short Finalists Jake Hutchison, Florida State University (Tallahassee), Standardized Heisting Xiao Ma, Florida State University (Tallahassee), The Invisible Man and the Blind Girl Maxwell Price, Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton), Mates The Suzanne L. Niedland Documentary Finalists Elizabeth Arceneaux, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts (Jacksonville), More Than a Tennis Coach Eli Dreyfuss, Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton), My Everyday Hero Alyce Rogers, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts (Jacksonville), Yellow House The Vanilla Ice Music Video Finalists Ahava Greenbaum and Susanne Reiter, David Posnack High School (Davie), Points4Love Brunel Irene, Palm Beach Gardens High School (Palm Beach Gardens), Scream Loud Mason Pace, St. Andrew's School (Boca Raton), Mason Pace Band – Timmy and Jimmy Animation Finalists Sagar Arun and Rachel Kral, Ringling College of Art and Design (Sarasota), Rebooted Ga Young Choi, Ringling College of Art and Design (Sarasota), Nodding Off Jessica Stanley and Nina Gerstenhaber, Ringling College of Art and Design (Sarasota), The Rose Garden Commercial/PSA Finalists Emma Gillian, West Broward High School (Pembroke Pines), Get Ready with Me Brunel Irene, Palm Beach Gardens High School (Palm Beach Gardens), Maybe You're Just Making Excuses Molly Smith, Monteverde Academy (Monteverde), Rules for Girls - Adidas Environmental Awareness PSA Finalists Shelby Hatcher, Seminole Ridge Community High School (Loxahatchee), Plastic Pollution PSA Julia Moran, Palm Beach Gardens High School (Palm Beach Gardens), End Plastic Pollution Jackson Seagraves, Paxon School for Advanced Studies (Jacksonville), The Treacherous Voyage Mental Health Awareness PSA Finalists Vincent Bonasera, G-Star School of the Arts (Palm Springs), Fallen Eugene Holsey, Paxon School for Advanced Studies (Jacksonville), Know That I'm Not Different Lizardo Rivadeneira, Carly Accorto and Nyanka Ignace, G-Star School of the Arts (Palm Springs), Drugs Nellie & Fred Chasin Screenwriting Finalists Jason Dobuler, Jupiter High School (Jupiter), An Odorless Ordeal Divya Navani, Key West High School (Key West), Into the Heart Virgina Tompkins, Hollywood Hills High School (Hollywood), The Choice Poster Design Finalists Matthew Ohnmeiss, Palm Beach Gardens High School (Palm Beach Gardens), 2020 Poster Design Logan Stewart, Nova Southeastern University (Ft. Lauderdale), 2020 Poster Design Elise Roberts, G-Star School of the Arts (Palm Springs) 2020 Poster Design To further the education of the filmmakers and those in the public interested in film, television and digital media programs, Florida colleges and universities with the above mentioned programs have been invited to talk before and after the show to give information on their program offerings. Confirmed programs that will be on hand at the event are Keiser University's Cinematic Arts, Lynn University, New York Film Academy Miami, and Palm Beach Atlantic University. Digg this article

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Palm Beaches Student Showcase of Films Finalists
(released 3/12/2019)
By Kimberly Burke

The Palm Beaches Student Showcase of Films winners will be revealed April 5th at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. The awards ceremony will be hosted by actor entertainer host of PBS South Florida's "On the Town in The Palm Beaches", Frank Licari. The finalists of the showcase were announced March 7 as well as the award show theme surrounding legendary Actor/Director and longtime contributor to the Student Showcase of Films, Mr Burt Reynolds. Vanilla Ice will be presenting the Vanilla Ice Music Video Award and more celebrity guests are to be announced as the April 5 event gets closer.

Michelle Hillery, Palm Beach County's Deputy Film Commissioner and Executive Producer of the Student Showcase of Films stated, "This year, the Student Showcase of Films received almost 700 student submissions from over 50 different schools across Florida. Our judging panel of 45 industry professionals had a tough assignment choosing the finalists, and at the live awards show, the audience will experience firsthand the outstanding level of talent found in Florida schools!"

The red carpet awards show will be at the Keith C. Elaine Johnson World Performing Arts Center at Lynn University with pre-show festivals starting at 9:30a.m. and the live awards show starting at 10a.m. The event is free and the public is encouraged to attend. An RSVP by March 22nd will secure your place at the event. RSVP connect by emailing ajordat@pbfilm.com or calling 561-233-1000.

Here are the student finalists as announced in alphabetical order:

Burt Reynolds & Sara Fuller Scholarship Finalists
Joey Aliberto, G-Star School of the Arts (Palm Springs)
Valerie Betts, A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts (West Palm Beach)
Andre Sanchez, Palm Beach Gardens High School (Palm Beach Gardens)
Roberto Torres, A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts (West Palm Beach)

High School Feature/Short Finalists
Amaya Cranston, Dixie Hollins High School (Seminole), Hero
Isaiah Fernandez, West Broward High School (Pembroke Pines), The Art of Our Odds
Molly Smith, Monteverde Academy (Monteverde), I Don't Know

College Feature/Short Finalists
Jake Hutchison, Florida State University (Tallahassee), Standardized Heisting
Xiao Ma, Florida State University (Tallahassee), The Invisible Man and the Blind Girl
Maxwell Price, Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton), Mates

The Suzanne L. Niedland Documentary Finalists
Elizabeth Arceneaux, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts (Jacksonville), More Than a Tennis Coach
Eli Dreyfuss, Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton), My Everyday Hero
Alyce Rogers, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts (Jacksonville), Yellow House

The Vanilla Ice Music Video Finalists
Ahava Greenbaum and Susanne Reiter, David Posnack High School (Davie), Points4Love
Brunel Irene, Palm Beach Gardens High School (Palm Beach Gardens), Scream Loud
Mason Pace, St. Andrew's School (Boca Raton), Mason Pace Band – Timmy and Jimmy

Animation Finalists
Sagar Arun and Rachel Kral, Ringling College of Art and Design (Sarasota), Rebooted
Ga Young Choi, Ringling College of Art and Design (Sarasota), Nodding Off
Jessica Stanley and Nina Gerstenhaber, Ringling College of Art and Design (Sarasota), The Rose Garden

Commercial/PSA Finalists
Emma Gillian, West Broward High School (Pembroke Pines), Get Ready with Me
Brunel Irene, Palm Beach Gardens High School (Palm Beach Gardens), Maybe You're Just Making Excuses
Molly Smith, Monteverde Academy (Monteverde), Rules for Girls - Adidas

Environmental Awareness PSA Finalists
Shelby Hatcher, Seminole Ridge Community High School (Loxahatchee), Plastic Pollution PSA
Julia Moran, Palm Beach Gardens High School (Palm Beach Gardens), End Plastic Pollution
Jackson Seagraves, Paxon School for Advanced Studies (Jacksonville), The Treacherous Voyage

Mental Health Awareness PSA Finalists
Vincent Bonasera, G-Star School of the Arts (Palm Springs), Fallen
Eugene Holsey, Paxon School for Advanced Studies (Jacksonville), Know That I'm Not Different
Lizardo Rivadeneira, Carly Accorto and Nyanka Ignace, G-Star School of the Arts (Palm Springs), Drugs

Nellie & Fred Chasin Screenwriting Finalists
Jason Dobuler, Jupiter High School (Jupiter), An Odorless Ordeal
Divya Navani, Key West High School (Key West), Into the Heart
Virgina Tompkins, Hollywood Hills High School (Hollywood), The Choice

Poster Design Finalists
Matthew Ohnmeiss, Palm Beach Gardens High School (Palm Beach Gardens), 2020 Poster Design
Logan Stewart, Nova Southeastern University (Ft. Lauderdale), 2020 Poster Design
Elise Roberts, G-Star School of the Arts (Palm Springs) 2020 Poster Design

To further the education of the filmmakers and those in the public interested in film, television and digital media programs, Florida colleges and universities with the above mentioned programs have been invited to talk before and after the show to give information on their program offerings. Confirmed programs that will be on hand at the event are Keiser University's Cinematic Arts, Lynn University, New York Film Academy Miami, and Palm Beach Atlantic University.

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