Verdon College film-makers collect another round of awards

Tuesday, December 15th, 2015

A pair of young Invercargill filmmakers have collected another round of awards.

Verdon College Year 12 students Liam van Eeden and Jean-Martin Fabre picked up five awards last week for their short films Rewind and Message in a Bottle.

At the awards ceremony in Wellington on December 5, the short film won the Leadership award, Best Editing and Secondary Schools Category Award.

They had taken the film to the Someday awards last year, where it placed in Top 20 and won the Like Minds Like Mine Health Promotion Agency award. Continue reading

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Tags: Catholic Education, Film makers

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