Published on the Morgan Hill Life website April 27, 2016
Watch the video of Tristan Padro describing how his Best Student winning film came to be by clicking HERE.
By Staff Report
The Poppy Jasper Film Festival announced its winners for its 12th annual award ceremony April 23, 2016.
The winners are:
Best Comedy: “The Things My Father Never Taught Me,” an Australian film written and directed by Burleigh Smith
Best Drama: “Thane of East County,” a film directed by Jesse Keller
Best Documentary: “A Struggle for Home: The Crimean Tatars,” a film produced and directed by Christina Paschyn
Best Foreign: “The Telegram Man,” an Australian film Directed and Produced by JAMES FRANCIS KHEHTIE
Best Music: “Nova-Amor-Cold”
Best Student: “The Elevator Diaries” by Trison Padron
Best Childrens Film: “Lift”
Triston Padron, the winner of the Best Student Film award shared with the audience how he accidentally got into film making when he got a new camera, played around with it last summer, and realized that the raw footage he took for fun could tell a great story.
