Film Lab students wins five accolades at the 2019 Capital EMMY Student Production Awards

ROANOKE, VA – The Grandin Theatre Film Lab has won five very prestigious awards. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter, has awarded Grandin Film Lab five top honors in the 2019 Capital Emmy Student Production Awards. Grandin Theatre Film Lab students walked away with BEST VIDEO: Girl in the Yellow Sweater, which was a collaborative effort with the Jefferson Center Music Lab students. In addition, Film Lab garnered first place in BEST SHORT-FORM FICTION: Dandelion (co-winner); BEST SHORT-FORM NONFICTION: Till I Come Home; and BEST LONG-FORM FICTION: Freedom Abridged and Wanderer (co-winners with each other). This is a stellar achievement for the Grandin Theatre Film Lab students who spent an entire academic year writing, filming, and editing the award-winning short films and music video.

The GRANDIN THEATRE FILM LAB program represents a model of experiential learning in screenwriting, acting, lighting, filming, editing, production, technology, and promotion. Our goal is to develop a continually improving model for molding the lives of youth as they grow not only as screenwriters, actors, directors, editors, and producers, but as contributing members of our society and informed citizens.

The National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter (NCCB) of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) is a non-profit, professional organization serving the Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC television community. The NATAS Emmy® Award is the industry’s benchmark for the recognition of television excellence.

About the Grandin Theatre

The mission of the Grandin Theatre Foundation (GTF) is to preserve the historic Grandin Theatre as a cultural and educational resource devoted to film and the cinematic arts for Western Virginia.

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