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Cassie Ketrick
A&S student filmmakers Casandra Ketrick, Mark Potts and Cole Selix

Student Films Featured at Local Festival

Three A&S students recently had their films featured in the Okie Shorts screenings at the deadCENTER Film Festival, held in downtown Oklahoma City in mid-June.

Cassie Ketrick, a senior in Film and Video Studies, submitted her film XX,XY to the film selection board. "Last year I went to the deadCENTER festival and when they opened the festival for the 2007 entries, I thought "Why not?" and went for it," said Ketrick. "Local film festivals in Oklahoma are few and far between. When you are a filmmaker you benefit immensely from being there with your film so it's important to submit your work to festivals that you can attend."

Mark Potts, a senior in Film and Video Studies and in Journalism, and Cole Selix, a senior in Film and Video Studies, screened their short For the Love of Family. "We love the deadCENTER Festival." said Potts, "Cacky Poarch, the director of the festival, is so nice to us and even goes as far as to treat us like real filmmakers. It's such a great environment to meet other filmmakers and get contacts." Their company is Singletree Productions.

Singletree Productions also has garnered praise for their short Building Imagination, which was featured on MTVu's Best Film On Campus Web site, and was a finalist for the IFC Independent Spirit Award. "Building Imagination is a bit of a surprise for us. It's received a lot of praise that we didn't suspect. We made it just for fun cause we like working with the child who was in it (he was also in For the Love of Family). It feels nice that a lot of people have connected with it."

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	Cassandra Ketrick
	Cassie is a senior majoring in film and video studies with minor in women's studies. She has been a member of the Leadership Scholars for two years. Read More...

Film and Video Studies

FVS is an interdisciplinary program that combines courses offered in English, the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Modern Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, Communications, the School of Art and the College of Education. It is designed to give students a broad understanding of the role of film and video in modern society.